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SOUNDBITE COMMUNICATIONS SELECTS INTELEPEER FOR IP COMMUNICATION SERVICES

IntelePeer SIP Trunking Provides Scalable Delivery of High Volume,
Outbound Campaigns

SAN MATEO, Calif. – October 27, 2010 – IntelePeer Inc., a leader in the delivery of communications via cloud-based infrastructure, today announced that SoundBite Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: SDBT), a leading provider of on-demand, multi-channel, proactive customer communications, selected IntelePeer’s IP communication services for the delivery of their time-critical voice messaging campaigns.

IntelePeer provides a suite of on-demand, IP communications solutions for high-volume outbound contact centers, notification service providers and interactive marketers. IntelePeer SIP trunking, IntelePeer’s market leading Voice Peering Network and patented SuperRegistryTM, containing more than 422 million directly peered telephone numbers, delivers local, long distance and international call origination and termination with carrier-class quality. As a cloud-based platform, IntelePeer’s services can scale on-demand to meet the time-critical, burstable traffic needs of this demanding market while improving call completion rates and dramatically lowering telecommunications more

INTELEPEER RANKED 177th FASTEST GROWING PRIVATE COMPANY IN NORTH AMERICA ON DELOITTE’S 2010 TECHNOLOGY FAST 500™

IntelePeer Attributes Its 573 Percent Revenue Growth to the Business Benefits Delivered by Its Global Voice Peering Network and Applications Platform

SAN MATEO, Calif. – October 25, 2010 – IntelePeer Inc., a leader in the delivery of communications via cloud-based infrastructure, today announced that it ranked number 177 on the Technology Fast 500™, Deloitte’s ranking of 500 of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. Rankings are based on percentage of fiscal year revenue growth during the period from 2005–2009.

IntelePeer’s revenues grew 573 percent during this period. IntelePeer’s chairman and chief executive officer, Frank Fawzi credits this impressive growth to the company’s compelling value proposition during a global recession when its customers depended on doing more with less.

“Our global peering network and next-generation Communications-as-a-Service platform has allowed our customers to dramatically reduce their communications costs, improve more

INTELEPEER NAMED AMONG SILICON VALLEY / SAN JOSE BUSINESS JOURNAL’S 60 FASTEST GROWING PRIVATE COMPANIES OF 2010

Impressive Revenue Growth from 2007-2009 Earns IntelePeer No. 25 Rank for 2010

SAN MATEO, Calif. – October 19, 2010 – Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal ranked IntelePeer Inc., a leader in the delivery of communications via cloud-based infrastructure, No. 25 on its Fastest Growing Private Companies List, an annual list of the top 60 fastest-growing private companies in the Silicon Valley area. The List is compiled by a rank of percent revenue growth from 2007 to 2009.

IntelePeer was honored at the Fast-Growing Private Company Awards reception on October 14 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. The actual list was published in a special issue of the paper on October 15 and also will be featured in the Book of Lists for the Silicon Valley area at the end of 2010.

“Our impressive growth is fueled by both the dramatic cost savings and enhanced communications more

Interop Technologies Successfully Completes 4G Interoperability Test with ARRIS Mobility Application Server

FORT MYERS, FL—Oct. 6, 2010— Interop Technologies, a provider of core solutions for messaging, device management, and connectivity gateways, announced today that it has successfully completed testing of its 4G-ready Short Message Service Center (SMSC) 4 Series with the ARRIS Mobility Application Server (MAS). ARRIS specializes in the design, engineering, and supply of technology supporting triple- and quad-play broadband services worldwide.

The successful outcome of the integration testing ensures that any mobile network operator running the ARRIS MAS and the Interop Technologies SMSC 4 Series can support IP-based messaging protocols as well as SS7-based, legacy messaging.

The ARRIS MAS provides full SIP-based Dual Mode Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) with support for seamless roaming and handover between circuit-switched and IP networks. Offloading voice, messaging, and data services to IP networks reduces operators’ costs and provides opportunities to offer competitive service packages.

Operators running more

INTEROP TECHNOLOGIES EXPANDS PROTOCOL SUPPORT FOR 4G MESSAGING GATEWAY

FORT MYERS, Fla.—Oct. 6, 2010—Interop Technologies, the premier provider of core wireless solutions for messaging, device management, and gateway connectivity, today announced that its 4G Messaging Gateway now supports three new variations of the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)/Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).

Operators using the Interop Technologies hosted technology gateway can now take advantage of plain text, CDMA-encoded, and GSM-encoded SIP support to maintain seamless messaging interoperability with legacy handsets and networks.

Interop initially announced availability of its highly modular, scalable, and extensible 4G Messaging Gateway in October 2009 and indicated that support for more IP protocols would be added. The company’s use of gateway layer protocol converters easily accommodates new protocols without changes to the messaging core or services layers. Neither today’s functionality enhancement nor the initial availability of 4G messaging for hosted customers required any changes in configuration or billing, nor was any intervention more

SouthernLINC Wireless Deploys Interop Technologies Hosted Multimedia Message Service Center Solution

FORT MYERS, Fla.—Oct. 6, 2010— Interop Technologies, a provider of core wireless solutions, today announced it is furnishing multimedia messaging solutions to SouthernLINC Wireless, a Southern Company (NYSE: SO).

Delivering messaging, device management and connectivity gateways, Interop Technologies develops and builds technology solutions for the wireless and telecommunications industries. SouthernLINC Wireless, a regional wireless carrier serving the southeastern U.S., recently deployed Interop Technologies’ hosted Multimedia Message Service Center (MMSC) solution to extend MMS capability, including inter-carrier connectivity for MMS traffic, to its subscribers for the first time.

“We are pleased to help SouthernLINC Wireless expand its offerings by providing our MMSC, as well as inter-carrier connectivity, to support the company’s iDEN technology,” said Fred Farrell, vice president sales, North America, for Interop Technologies. “Our solutions will help SouthernLINC Wireless further increase its competitive edge and capture available MMS revenue.”

The world’s most scalable MMSC, more

Doobie Brothers Concert - live via Cisco TelePresence

world_gone_crazy.jpg For the first time in 10 years, The Doobie Brothers are unveiling a new album on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 — entitled “World Gone Crazy.”

Continuing their long history of creating memorable experiences with music, The Doobie Brothers will host a preview concert, along with an interactive fan experience, using the latest technology from AT&T, Marriott and Cisco beginning at 3:30 p.m. (PDT) on Monday September 27, 2010.

The last time The Doobie Brothers released a studio album iTunes did not exist, and now working with AT&T, Cisco and Marriott, the World Gone Crazy album release event will utilize Virtual Meetings by Marriott with AT&T and Cisco TelePresence, the most advanced interactive video conferencing technology available in select Marriott properties worldwide.

Cisco TelePresence is a rapidly growing and increasingly popular technology that enables groups to meet and collaborate in multiple more

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Wireless History Foundation Announces 2010 Wireless Hall of Fame Inductees

The Wireless History Foundation (WHF) has announced the names of four individuals who will be inducted into the Wireless Hall of Fame during the Foundation’s Oct. 5, 2010 dinner in San Francisco. The 2010 inductees are (in alphabetical order):

• LeRoy T. Carlson—founder and chairman emeritus of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. and founder of U.S. Cellular, Chicago, IL

• Edward Samuel “Ted” Rogers, Jr. (posthumously)—president and CEO of Rogers Communications, Inc., who built Canada’s largest communications company, Toronto, ON

• Stanley T. Sigman—retired president and chief executive officer of AT&T Mobility , San Antonio, TX

• Raymond C. Trott—RF engineering pioneer and founder of Trott Communications Group, Irving, TX

The dinner will take place at the Palace Hotel the evening before the CTIA Enterprise and Applications™ 2010 tradeshow Oct. 6-8. In addition to honoring the new inductees, the program will also more

OOMA JOINS INTELEPEER SUPERREGISTRY AND GLOBAL VOICE PEERING NETWORK

IntelePeer Infrastructure Provides Dramatic Telecom Termination Cost Savings
To Ooma with Expanded SuperRegistry Reach

DALLAS – September 14, 2010 – IntelePeer Inc., a leader in the delivery of communications via cloud-based infrastructure, today announced that Ooma has joined the expanding IntelePeer SuperRegistryTM and is able to route calls over the IntelePeer Global Voice Peering Network to realize dramatic cost savings.

By joining the IntelePeer SuperRegistry and the IntelePeer Global Voice Peering Network, Ooma – which markets a consumer electronics device that provides free U.S. telephone calling and advanced telephony services to customers worldwide – gains a single point of interconnection that aggregates more than 416 million telephone number destinations, extends native IP transport and generates significant cost savings. Further, Ooma customers will become additional end-point destinations accessible to other SuperRegistry participants, now numbering over 50 service providers.

The IntelePeer SuperRegistry is an advanced, carrier-grade numbering and more

Neutral Tandem Selects ADVA Optical Networking to Support its Ethernet eXchange Services in New York City

The ADVA FSP 3000 expands metro core transport capacity

Norcross, Georgia and Martinsried/Munich, Germany. September 13, 2010. ADVA Optical Networking today announced that Neutral Tandem, Inc. (Nasdaq:TNDM), a leading provider of interconnection services, has deployed the ADVA FSP 3000 Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) platform in New York City. The FSP 3000 connects three important network nodes located at 75 Broad Street, 32 Avenue of the Americas and 60 Hudson.

ADVA Optical Networking’s FSP 3000 drives the scalable, high-speed connectivity needed to deliver the fast-growing bandwidth demands of today’s business world. By rolling its existing SONET OC-48 system onto the FSP 3000 platform in this 100-km three-node ring, Neutral Tandem now has the capacity for up to 40 separate 10 Gigabit Ethernet  (GbE) circuits between each of the three locations. Neutral Tandem customers are already more