CommuniGate Systems Teams With Intel and BlueArc to Set New Mail Server Performance Record

New Record Outpaces Prior Submissions by 67 Percent

Mill Valley, CA - Aug 31, 2005 . CommuniGate Systems, the leader in scalable carrier-grade email, collaboration, and SIP-based VoIP applications, in partnership with BlueArc® Corporation, today announced that Intel® Xeon-powered CommuniGate servers, in combination with, Blue Arc's Titan storage system, has achieved a new world record result for SPECmail® message capacity and performance. CommuniGate Pro Real-Time Communications Server along with BlueArc's Titan sustained a performance level of 12,500 SPECmail messages per minute, or the equivalent of two and a half million SPECmail users, sending 30 million e-mail messages per day.

CommuniGate Pro's unique all-active Dynamic Cluster architecture provides for unlimited scalability with the ability to just add nodes as the need arises for additional service capacity. High-performance Internet communications are mission critical for ISPs, Broadband providers, and enterprises with strenuous e-mail environments, particularly as worldwide e-mail traffic continues to rise. According to a recent study from The Radicati Group, e-mail traffic increased 35 percent in 2004, to a level of 76.8 billion messages per day. Of this e-mail traffic, approximately 83 percent was corporate e-mail.

SPECmail is a standardized benchmark developed by messaging vendors and research organizations that measures mail server performance using a real-world workload. The SPECmail benchmark was achieved utilizing Intel Xeon-based CommuniGate Pro servers connected to BlueArc's Titan system.

CommuniGate Pro Active Dynamic Cluster is recognized as the clear leader in providing carriers with rich packaged features that increase the user-base value potential and subscriber retention. The all-active dynamic clustering provides multi-million user sites 99.999% uptime and a rolling update capability that no other platform is able to maintain. CommuniGate Pro is the first real-time Internet communications server to utilize multiple operating systems in the same cluster, thus providing carriers flexibility to mix and match legacy or new architectures while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO).

"CommuniGate Systems is excited to be a part of this new world record for performance and capacity of message storage and retrieval," said Thom O'Connor, Director of Product Architecture, for CommuniGate Systems. "The combination of BlueArc's Titan and the CommuniGate Pro Active Dynamic Cluster delivers a complete solution for voice and data communication in the ISP, Broadband and Telcom markets by offering the most features, reliability, and scalability on the market."

"BlueArc's Titan has raised the bar on performance and capacity for network storage," said Mike Gustafson, President and CEO for BlueArc Corporation. "Titan is a leader when it comes to supporting the world's most demanding storage requirements as our customers' storage demands grow, and as proven, nothing else in the market comes close to matching the performance of the Titan product today. Based on its unique architecture and scalability, we expect to maintain this lead to the benefit of our customers and ISP clients across the world."

"Intel, working with companies like BlueArc and CommuniGate Systems, are committed to delivering leading-edge performance that supports the world.s most taxing e-mail environments," said Dan Johnson, Strategic Relationship Manager, for Intel Corporation. "We are pleased to continue playing a leading role in delivering innovation for customers."

SPEC® and the benchmark name SPECmail® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect results published on www.spec.org as of August 15, 2005. The comparison presented above is based on Standard Performance Evaluation Corp.'s benchmark that measures a system's ability to act as a mail server servicing email requests, based on the Internet standard protocols SMTP and POP3. For the latest SPECmail® benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org/mail2001.

For more details about the SPECmail benchmark and a current list of validated results, please visit www.spec.org/mail2001/results/mail2001.html.

About BlueArc

BlueArc® Corporation changes the economics of network storage by helping customers manage more information with less effort. BlueArc.s storage systems enable organizations to maximize performance and reduce operating costs through the movement of software functions into programmable hardware. Since 1998, BlueArc has provided scalable and reliable products, services and solutions to help enterprises achieve unmatched productivity and profitability from their data. The company's headquarters are in San Jose, California with UK operations based in Bracknell, England. More information on BlueArc is available on the Internet at www.bluearc.com.

About Intel

Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.

About CommuniGate Systems
Founded in 1991 and based in Mill Valley, California, CommuniGate Systems develops carrier-class Unified Communications and media delivery software for broadband and mobile operators to deliver value-added services and SaaS solutions. CommuniGate Systems delivers powerful mashups of Unified Communications technology mixed with media and entertainment applications for portals, social networks, enterprises and mobile communities. CommuniGate Systems is revolutionizing the Unified Communications industry with a unique Flash-based client framework Pronto! bringing together all forms of communication and breaking the leash to the desktop with Web 2.0 mobility.

CommuniGate Systems is the first choice in technology solutions for over 12,000 customers with over 130 million subscribers unifying e-mail, collaboration, IM, presence and VoIP with a single identity. The Unified Communications platform provides flexibility, performance, and scalability with benchmark proven architecture remaining unchallenged in the industry. Our technology powers OEM partner products ranging from embedded real time systems to powerful unified messaging platforms at top tier global network operators. The open development environment's simple APIs deliver extensible flexibility with a unique clustering technology for 99.999% uptime for the most demanding application environments.

The company is a trusted and financially stable vendor, maintaining the highest customer satisfaction levels in the Unified Communications industry with over 175 members in its partner network worldwide.