Whaleback Systems Corporation to Deploy the VoIP Accelerator "Whaleback offers turn-key business-grade VoIP services to small and medium-size enterprises and we pride ourselves on the reliability and quality of our services," said Wray West, Founder and Vice President of Engineering, Whaleback Systems Corporation. "The CTX 600 VoIP Accelerator perfectly addresses our requirements to guarantee call quality on converged voice/data access connections.

The product will also provide critical statistics and management data which contributes to our total service performance monitoring. We plan to offer this product to our customers whenever data and VoIP share the same link." ABP International to Offer Solution to its Customers "ABP provides VoIP solutions to Hosted service providers and Resellers, who often have quality issues costing them money and time in post sales support calls," said Robert Messer, President and CEO, ABP International. "The CTX 600 is the first time advanced Traffic Management technology is being made available to SMBs to solve this problem without the complexity and the high cost of traditional appliances.

I am happy to partner with Converged Access to offer this solution to my customers." "The CTX 600 is perfect for small or remote offices that are experiencing poor voice quality including distortion, word loss, echo, talker overlap or dropped calls on a VoIP network," said Per Suneby, President and CEO of Converged Access. "Customers will very quickly and with little effort and expense, solve all these problems and enjoy toll-quality VoIP results.

They will finally have satisfied end-users and obtain the financial return they had expected on their initial VoIP investment." About the CTX 600 VoIP Accelerator The CTX 600 ensures toll quality performance with robust traffic management to protect VoIP traffic and ensure optimum use of broadband bandwidth at the lowest possible cost. Applications are classified at wire- speed on a per flow basis so VoIP gets top priority and guaranteed bandwidth. Other data applications like e-mail and browsing are given best effort service. For additional product information, visit http://www.convergedaccess.com/products/ctx600.asp

Pricing and Availability

The CTX 600 is available immediately and is priced at $650 list and will be available through Resellers, IP PBX vendors and Hosted VoIP Service providers. The CTX is also available from ABP International (http://www.abptech.com/).