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SIPquest receives Internet Telephony Magazine's "Product of the Year" 2004

SIPquest VoWiFi Fast Handover Honored for Oustanding Innovation.

Ottawa, Canada - December 21, 2004 - SIPquest, a leading developer of SIP-based IP Telephony software components and applications announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®)'s INTERNET TELEPHONY® magazine (www.itmag.com) has named SIPquest as a recipient of a 2004 Product of the Year Award. INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP Authority Since 1998™.

The SIPquest VoWiFi Fast Handover software application is a unique approach in solving the VoWiFi roaming dilemma. The client software resides entirely on the handsets/PDAs and allows enterprise users to roam in a multivendor WiFi Access Point environment with less than 10ms fast handover latency. It is helping drive true mobility and the adoption of VoIP and advanced IP Telephony applications such as unified messaging and presence directly on WiFi handsets.

Until now, when users of WiFi devices move out of range of one Access Point (AP) into the range of another the handover latency could be between 400ms and 600ms; a delay not acceptable for voice service. The SIPquest software is composed of algorithms that reduce the handover latency between APs to less than 10 milliseconds, independent of the manufacturer of APs used. Alternate deployment options restrict enterprises into a single WiFi vendor-specific solution.

"Our solution is unique. Chipset and handset manufacturers can embed the SIPquest WiFi Fast Handover as well as our soft client, the SIPquest Mobile Collaboration Agent into their WiFi devices to gain and deliver mobility to end users in multivendor access point environments" said Alain Mouttham , chief executive officer, SIPquest Inc.

"We are pleased to be recognized as INTERNET TELEPHONY's® product of the year," continued Mr. Mouttham. "Our team is dedicated to delivering innovative software client and server applications. In partnership with Professor Henning Schulzrinne, lead co-author of SIP, and Columbia University the teams have delivered the industry's first software-only client solution for VoWiFi roaming. We are already working on products extending this offering that will solve the WiFi-to-Cellular fast handover challenge. Soon users will freely roam, without degraded or loss of service of their VoWiFi call, from the office to a HotZone/hotspot to a cellular network and then back again to the office."

"Each year INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine bestows its Product of the Year awards on companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement and application refinements. SIPquest has demonstrated to the editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY that its products or services are committed to quality and innovation while addressing the real needs in the marketplace," said Rich Tehrani, Group Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

The Product of the Year Award winners for 2004 will be published in the January 2005 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

About TMC

Celebrating more than 30 years as a leading publisher, Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC ®) publishes Customer Inter@ction Solutions ® and INTERNET TELEPHONY ® magazines, Web portal TMCnet.com, and the online publications SIP™, Speech-World™, VoIP Developer™, WiFI Telephony™, WiMAX™, Alternative Power™ and BiometriTech™. TMC ® is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC ® Labs. TMC ® produces INTERNET TELEPHONY ® Conference & EXPO, VoIP Developer Conference ä and Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit ä . TMC offers live and online certification programs through TMC University . TMCnet.com publishes more than 14 online newsletters. Visit www.tmcnet.com for details.

About SIPquest

SIPquest is a technology pioneer with specific expertise in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). By embedding or bundling SIPquest SIP-based software products with their own products, telecom and datacom equipment vendors are able to take advantage of the growing demand for IP Telephony services and capabilities. SIPquest 's application and component suite includes IP-based audio conferencing, video conferencing, data conferencing, application sharing, instant messaging, presence, a multimedia collaboration agent, voice mail, auto attendant, a SIP to H.323 signaling converter, an extensible SIP server and mobile WiFi roaming and collaboration capabilities. SIPquest is committed to expanding the use of SIP technologies through an exclusive licensing agreement with Columbia University 's Internet Real-Time Lab and Professor Henning Schulzrinne, Chief Scientific Advisor to SIPquest and lead co-author of SIP. Located in Ottawa , Canada , SIPquest has the most complete and advanced suite of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) software modules and components on the market.