AudioCodes Enables SIP Business Communication Continuity for Branch Offices Using Alcatel-Lucent IP Telephony

AudioCodes MediaPack(tm) Gateways With Stand Alone Survivability (SAS) Capabilities Adopted by Leading Telephony Vendors Such as Alcatel-Lucent

• Press Release
• Source: AudioCodes Ltd.
• On 9:31 am EST, Monday March 2, 2009

LOD, Israel, March 2, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AudioCodes (Nasdaq:AUDC - News), a leading provider of Voice over IP (VoIP) technologies and Voice Network products, today announced the successful testing and implementation of its Stand Alone Survivability feature by Alcatel-Lucent.

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With the increased demand for large scale, distributed IP Telephony enterprise networks, survivability becomes a key feature for IP telephony vendors, systems integrators and end customers. AudioCodes' SAS feature integrated in the MediaPack(tm) product family enables Stand Alone Survivability of enterprise branch offices in the case of an IP network failure.

Stand Alone Survivability, supported by the MediaPack family, is adding telephony services backup to IP Phones in remote locations. SAS support for the MediaPack is fully integrated with the Alcatel-Lucent Omni PCX Release 9.0 and IP Touch 8 series phones with SIP survivability.

"SAS is one of the most significant features of our Media Gateway range, and a major sales enabler of our MediaPack product family," stated Lior Aldema, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management, at AudioCodes. "Together with our high voice quality, advanced features and routing capabilities, the Survivability features enhance the productivity of distributed enterprises."

According to Alcatel-Lucent, AudioCodes' MediaPacks with the SAS feature are complementing their Alcatel-Lucent OmniPCX Enterprise safe branch office offering and provide an effective solution for small voice branch offices.

AudioCodes will be exhibiting at the Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Forum 2009, Le Palais des Congres, Paris, France, March 4-5, 2009 at the Alliance and Application Partner Village in booth #AA04.

About AudioCodes

AudioCodes Ltd. (Nasdaq:AUDC - News) provides innovative, reliable and cost-effective Voice over IP (VoIP) technology, Voice Network Products, and Value Added Applications to Service Providers, Enterprises, OEMs, Network Equipment Providers and System Integrators worldwide. AudioCodes provides a diverse range of flexible, comprehensive media gateway, and media processing enabling technologies based on VoIPerfect(tm) -- AudioCodes' underlying, best-of-breed, core media architecture. The company is a market leader in VoIP equipment, focused on VoIP Media Gateway, Media Server, Session Border Controllers (SBC), Security Gateways and Value Added Application network products. AudioCodes has deployed tens of millions of media gateway and media server channels globally over the past ten years and is a key player in the emerging best-of-breed, IMS based, VoIP market. The Company is a VoIP technology leader focused on quality and interoperability, with a proven track record in product and network interoperability with industry leaders in the Service Provider and Enterprise space. AudioCodes Voice Network Products feature media gateway and media server platforms for packet-based applications in the converged, wireline, wireless, broadband access, cable, enhanced voice services, video, and Enterprise IP Telephony markets. AudioCodes' headquarters and R&D are located in Israel with an additional R&D facility in the U.S. Other AudioCodes' offices are located in Europe, India, the Far East, and Latin America. For more information on AudioCodes, visit http://www.audiocodes.com.

Statements concerning AudioCodes' business outlook or future economic performance; product introductions and plans and objectives related thereto; and statements concerning assumptions made or expectations as to any future events, conditions, performance or other matters, are "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined under U.S. Federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements are subject to various risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated in such statements. These risks, uncertainties and factors include, but are not limited to: the effect of global economic conditions in general and conditions in AudioCodes' industry and target markets in particular; shifts in supply and demand; market acceptance of new products and continuing products' demand; the impact of competitive products and pricing on AudioCodes' and its customers' products and markets; timely product and technology development/upgrades and the ability to manage changes in market conditions as needed; possible disruptions from acquisitions; the integration of acquired companies' products and operations into AudioCodes' business; and other factors detailed in AudioCodes' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. AudioCodes assumes no obligation to update the information in this release.

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AudioCodes Ltd.
Shirley Nakar
+972-3-976-4000
Shirley@audiocodes.com