Carrius Technologies, Inc. Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine's ``Product of the Year'' Award for 2004; Compleat-200 Honored for Outstanding Innovation

RICHARDSON, TEXAS (January 5, 2005) — Carrius Technologies, Inc. announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC(R))'s INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) magazine (www.itmag.com) has named Compleat-200 as a recipient of a 2004 Product of the Year Award. The Compleat-200 Intelligent IP Gateway integrates signaling gateway, media gateway, and softswitch functions all in a single carrier-grade platform. As such, it fills a void in the market by providing a reliable and economic VoIP platform for deployments which do not justify the employment of "traditional" multi-element softswitching and media gateway solutions. "Our customers have quickly embraced the concept of an integrated VoIP platform," said Steve Liese, Director of Product Marketing at Carrius. "We are pleased that a prestigious publication in the VoIP market like INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) recognizes the contribution of the Compleat-200 in defining this new valuable category of product," continued Liese. "Each year INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine bestows its Product of the Year awards on companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement and application refinements. Carrius 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 2004 will be published in the January 2005 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

About Carrius Technologies, Inc. - Based in Richardson, Texas, Carrius Technologies is an innovator in carrier-grade intelligent VoIP switching and gateway solutions. The Compleat platform enables new cost-effective IP-based services. As an enhanced services platform controlled through SIP or the Carrius API, Compleat allows solution developers to focus on differentiated services while Compleat manages telephony functions such as signaling, media termination, call control, and redundancy. Service providers may also leverage this same combination of capabilities to deploy Compleat as an intelligent stand-alone gateway to deliver new IP-based services. For more information, please visit www.carriustech.com.

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

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