INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine: RealTunnel™ receives 2005 Product of the Year Award

Oslo, Norway, 25.01.2006 — Paradial announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®)’s INTERNET TELEPHONY® magazine (www.itmag.com) has named RealTunnel™ as a recipient of a 2005 Product of the Year Award. INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP Authority Since 1998™.

The patented Paradial RealTunnel™ FW/NAT product is an open and SIP-compliant solution which makes SIP clients work with virtually any firewall and network in a non-intrusive way and without any reconfiguration required. RealTunnel™ FW/NAT supports all SIP client features (presence, chat, voice, video, application sharing, multiparty conferencing) regardless of network - a completely standards compliant and open solution.

RealTunnel™ provides a flexible Firewall/NAT traversal platform which automatically and intelligently sets up calls in the most optimal and efficient way. The most efficient communication method is chosen based on how participants in a call or conference are connected. The best possible protocol for a given session is automatically used – ranging from direct calls where users are on the same network to STUN, UDP, TCP and HTTPS relaying. It is possible to configure the system according to customer demands, e.g. always to use HTTPS for secure real-time communication. RealTunnel™ efficiently uses secure Web channels (HTTPS) to maintain QoS (Quality of Service) and deliver the real-time characteristics usually supplied by RTP/UDP to audio and video communications applications. RTP/UDP (Real Time Protocol/User Datagram Protocol) behavior is simulated using Web channels.

RealTunnel™ has been chosen by leading communications companies to handle complex firewall and NAT traversal challenges:

In Network Operator communications, RealTunnel™ provides the FW/NAT traversal for a leading Video Gateway (VIG) solution, a popular service for mobile network operators introducing UMTS/3G services like Mobile-to-Web video conferencing.

In Enterprise communications, Paradial RealTunnel™ interacts seamlessly with market leading SIP servers, allowing converged services which combine IT and Telecom capabilities to be rapidly created and deployed.

"Paradial is proud to win the INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine Product of the Year awards for 2005", says Paradial CEO Kevin Kliland. "It is proof of success after years of hard work and focus on building the best firewall/NAT traversal product available in the market."

"Each year INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine bestows its Product of the Year awards on companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement and application refinements. Paradial has demonstrated to the editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY that its products or services are committed to quality and innovation while addressing the real needs in the marketplace," said Rich Tehrani, Group Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

The Product of the Year Award winners for 2005 will be highlighted in the January and February 2006 issues of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

About Paradial
Paradial is a global provider of highly efficient IP telephony solutions. Our product platforms – RealTunnel™ and RealSIP™ – enable secure and supreme quality IP communication services through any firewall set-up. The RealTunnel™ Firewall/NAT traversal solution is probably the most open, standards based solution in the market. The combination of RealSIP™ Messenger, RealSIP™ Conferencing Unit and RealTunnel™ FW/NAT traversal provides an extremely efficient and competitive video conferencing offering. All Paradial products are open and SIP standard compliant.
Visit www.paradial.com for more information.

About TMC®
Celebrating more than 30 years as a leading publisher, Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®) publishes Customer Inter@ction Solutions® and INTERNET TELEPHONY® magazines, Web portal TMCnet.com, and the online publications SIP™, Speech-World™, VoIP Developer™, WiFI Telephony™, WiMAX™, Alternative Power™ and BiometriTech™. TMC® is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC® Labs. TMC® produces INTERNET TELEPHONY® Conference & EXPO, VoIP Developer Conferenceä and Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit. TMC offers live and online certification programs through TMC University. TMCnet.com publishes more than 14 online newsletters. Visit www.tmcnet.com for details.


TMC Contact:
Andrew Katz
+1-203-852-6800, ext. 279
Akatz@tmcnet.com


Paradial Contact:
Christian Testman
+47 22980055
pr@paradial.com