Veraz Extends Leadership in Bandwidth Optimization with the I-Gate 4000 SBO

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veraz Networks, Inc., (NASDAQ:VRAZ) the leading provider of Multimedia Generation Network application, control, and bandwidth optimization products, today announced the I-Gate 4000 Session Bandwidth Optimizer (SBO). Built on the award-winning I-Gate 4000 platform and utilizing RTP multiplexing technology, the I-Gate 4000 SBO enables service providers to reduce the bandwidth required for voice over IP (VoIP) trunks by up to 67% while maintaining toll quality and high reliability. The I-Gate 4000 SBO is currently in trial with several service providers.

Today, service providers and large enterprises need to minimize the cost of bandwidth as they extend the reach of their VoIP networks and migrate from TDM to next generation all-IP networks. In many cases, IP transport costs represent the single largest expense for operators offering VoIP services. Building on the leading TDM-IP compression technology already available on the I-Gate 4000 platform, the I-Gate 4000 SBO dramatically lowers the cost of IP trunks without reducing the quality or reliability of VoIP services. A limited version of the bandwidth optimization technology used in the SBO is also available on Veraz’s recently announced Network-adaptive Border Controller product family.

“Today, a significant and rapidly growing portion of international long distance traffic is VoIP. Faced with increasing competition, VoIP service providers need to simultaneously drive down the costs of their network while managing rapid growth,” noted Amit Chawla, Veraz EVP, Global Business Units. “With its industry leading bandwidth optimization, the I-Gate 4000 SBO enables service providers to achieve significant cost savings for VoIP trunking on a proven, converged TDM and IP platform, while maintaining high quality voice services.”

Veraz Networks is the leader in the development and deployment of advanced bandwidth optimization products for both TDM and IP networks. With the addition of the I-Gate 4000 SBO, Veraz continues to provide network operators the most flexible and highest performing bandwidth optimization capabilities for both TDM and IP bandwidth optimization.

About Veraz Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRAZ)

Veraz Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRAZ), is the leading provider of application, control, and bandwidth optimization products that enable the evolution to the Multimedia Generation Network (MGN). Service providers worldwide use the Veraz MGN portfolio to extend their current application suite and rapidly add customized multimedia services that drive revenue and ensure customer retention. The Veraz MGN separates the control, media, and application layers while unifying management of the network, thereby increasing service provider operating efficiency. Wireline and wireless service providers in over 50 countries have deployed products from the Veraz MGN portfolio, which includes the ControlSwitch™, Network-adaptive Border Controller, I-Gate 4000 Media Gateways, the VerazView Management System, and a set of prepackaged applications. Please visit www.veraznetworks.com.

This press release may contain forward-looking statements regarding future events that involve risks and uncertainties. Readers are cautioned that these forward-looking statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that if they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include but are not limited to, sales and markets for the Veraz I-Gate 4000 Session Bandwidth Optimizer and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. More information about these and other risks that may impact Veraz' business is set forth in our Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the SEC, including the "Risk Factors" section in our final Prospectus filed April 5, 2007 and Veraz' Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2007 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These filings are available on a website maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission at http://www.sec.gov. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

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