Thursday, October 19, 2006

AudioCodes Launches Transcoding Resource Blade TRB

AudioCodes Launches Transcoding Resource Blade Products

10/11/2006
AudioCodes (Nasdaq:AUDC), a leading provider of Voice over Packet (VoP) technologies and Voice Network products, today announced general availability of the Transcoding Resource Blade (TRB) family of blade products. The TRB family of blades is a specially optimized member of the successful IPmedia product line, adding a number of enhanced performance features that enable complex wireline and wireless transcoding processing required in IP Multi-media Subsystem (IMS) architecture and other VoIP implementations.

The TRB products support IP to IP conversion of a wide range of standard and low bit-rate (LBR) coders, including: G.711, G.726, G.727, G.723.1, G.729.a, iLBC, GSM-FR, GSM-EFR, AMR and others. In addition to voice coders, the TRB family also supports encryption/decryption, conversion of G.711 fax to T.38 and a number of DTMF conversions. Transcoding features are controlled via SIP, MGCP or via the high-performance AudioCodes API.

"One of the widely understood challenges of the IMS architecture and Peer-to-Peer VoIP applications is transcoding," said Sharone Ben-Levi, Vice President of Marketing, Blade Business Line at AudioCodes. "The TRB family of blades solves this challenge by offering a range of high-performance, low-latency IP to IP transcoding solutions that are vastly more efficient than host-based solutions."

"In developing our Soleo XML Network Gateway(TM), we faced a significant challenge of how to accomplish transcoding within our speech-based platform using our existing server platform," said Mike Thorp, Vice President & Chief Technical Officer at Soleo Communications, a supplier of platforms, applications, and professional services to Directory
and Operator Services Providers. "By integrating the AudioCodes IPmedia transcoding resources into the Soleo platform, we were able to solve our transcoding challenge and broaden our addressable market into a number of new wireline and wireless customers."

The TRB product family is available today in a number of blade form factors and densities, including:

- IPM-260/TRB - PCI form factor, supporting up to 120 transcoding sessions
- IPM-1610/TRB - cPCI form factor, up to 240 transcoding sessions
- IPM-6310/TRB - cPCI form factor, up to 1008 transcoding sessions

In addition to the above PCI and cPCI version, an AdvancedTCA form factor product is planned for early 2007.

For more information on the Transcoding Resource Blade family, contact your AudioCodes account executive or visit http://www.audiocodes.com/trb. AudioCodes will be exhibiting at the Internet Telephony Conference and Expo, San Diego Convention Center, October 10-13 2006 at Booth #530.

About AudioCodes
AudioCodes Ltd. (Nasdaq: AUDC), Your Gateway to VoIP, provides innovative, reliable and cost-effective Voice over Packet (VOP) technology and Voice Network products to OEMs, Network Equipment Providers, Service Providers and System Integrators worldwide. AudioCodes provides a diverse range of flexible, comprehensive media gateway and media processing technologies (based on VoIPerfect(TM) -- AudioCodes' underlying, best-of-breed, core media gateway architecture) and Session Border Controllers (SBCs). The company is a market leader in product development, focused on VoIP Media Gateway, Media Server and SBC technologies and network products. AudioCodes has deployed tens of millions of media gateway and media server channels globally over the past few years and is a key originator of the ITU G.723.1 standard for the emerging Voice over IP market. The Company is a VoIP technology leader focused on quality, having recently received a number one ranking from ETSI for outstanding voice quality in its media gateways and media servers. AudioCodes voice network products feature media gateway and media server platforms for packet-based applications in the converged, wireline, wireless, broadband access, enhanced voice services and video markets. AudioCodes enabling technology products include VoIP and CTI communication blades, VoIP media gateway processors and modules, and CPE devices. AudioCodes' headquarters and R&D facilities are located in Israel with an R&D extension in the U.S. Other AudioCodes' offices are located in Europe, the Far East, and Latin America.

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; and other factors detailed in AudioCodes' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. AudioCodes assumes no obligation to update their information in this release

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