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Grandstream Networks Awarded “Best of Show” at INTERNET TELEPHONY® Conference & EXPO East 2008
GXE502X SINGLED OUT FOR INNOVATION AND QUALITY AT LEADING IP COMMUNICATIONS EVENT IN JANUARY
Brookline, MA (February 7th, 2008) — Grandstream Networks Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of next-generation IP Voice, Video and IP-PBX products announced today its all-in1 IP-PBX, the GXE502x has been named a winner of the “Best SMB Solution Award” at Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®)’s INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference and EXPO East 2008. TMC reports that the conference was attended by over 7,100 people at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami from January 23-25, 2008. The GXE 502x IP-PBX appliance is the next generation in converged business communications systems. It is a powerful all-in-one voice + fax + video + data communication solution for the small to medium sized business (SMB), especially companies with sub-30 seats per location. Designed from ground up to support IP communications, intelligent unified messaging, advanced application integration and popular PBX features, the GXE 502x also optimally integrates legacy PSTN trunk and telephone interfaces for fail-safe hybrid communication needs in all circumstances including situations of power or network loss. The GXE 502x raises the level of modern business communication systems for the SMB to a new height of innovation, quality, reliability, feature integration, user productivity, ease of deployment & administration and deployment. During the Internet Telephony Conference and Expo Grandstream was also pleased to launch their Certified Integrator Training Program which is a training course that enables systems integrators, resellers and VARs the opportunity to become certified by Grandstream to install the GXE502x. Grandstream will offer this training at various trade shows globally. Visit www.grandstream.com for more information. “We are very pleased to be honored with this prestigious award for the GXE502x IPPBX product which has generated significant interests from the market. The introduction of GXE502x series filled a void in our product portfolio to address the market need for easy-to-use end-to-end IP convergent communication solution. We are committed to continuing our pursuit to offer high value innovative IP voice and video solutions to the SMB market,” said David Li, CEO of Grandstream Networks. “Grandstream Networks and their innovative product, the GXE502x series, are a standout indication of why so many enterprise buyers, developers, resellers and service providers flock to
INTERNET TELEPHONY® Conference & EXPO,” said TMC President and Conference Chairman, Rich Tehrani. “Their innovation and commitment to quality attracted many serious prospects to their booth. Attendees knew they'd find solutions in the Grandstream booth that would help them in their businesses today.” The Best of Show awards are presented to companies unveiling the most impressive new products or new releases at the show. Each winner displayed and demonstrated their product on the INTERNET TELEPHONY Expo show floor. A full list of the winners appears on the TMC Web site, www.tmcnet.com, and will be published in the March 2008 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY® magazine. The next INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO will take place September 16-18, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California. For information, visit www.itexpo.com or call (203) 852-6800 ext. 146.
ABOUT GRANDSTREAM NETWORKS, INC.
Grandstream Networks is a leading designer and manufacturer of innovative, affordable, and high quality IP voice and video products for the worldwide broadband telephony market. Our products are fully compatible with the SIP industry standard, field proven with large and rapidly growing deployed base, and have broad interoperability with the majority of 3rd party SIP products on the market today. Grandstream continues to bring innovation to the IP communications market with exciting products of compelling values and differentiations. Grandstream Networks is headquartered in Brookline, Massachusetts with offices in Dallas, Los Angeles and Shenzhen/China.
ABOUT TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine which have a combined readership of over 600,000 including pass-along readers. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 7,000 most visited Web sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves two to three million unique visitors each month globally. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, and Call Center 2.0 Conference. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.) For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.
TMC CONTACT: Michael Genaro 203-852-6800, ext 142 mgenaro@tmcnet.com
GRANDSTREAM CONTACT: Karleen Greene 617-566-9300, ext 821 marketing@grandstream.com
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