Network Norway chooses Gintel

Oslo, Norway, June 19, 2007: Network Norway has entered the highly competitive and saturated Norwegian market as the third mobile operator, focused on business subscribers. “These customers require advanced functionality, including hosted and virtual services, which the Gintel solution allows us to provide,” says Ingvild Myhre, Managing Director at Network Norway.

Network Norway chose Gintel’s solution as the platform for their flagship Mobile Office service offering. “We chose the Gintel solution because it enables us to offer better solutions, giving both higher value and more flexibility to our business subscribers,” says Myhre.

The solution is composed of Gintel’s EasyVPaBX service application, BEA’s WebLogic SIP Server application server, Cantata’s IMG 1010 and SnowShore Media Server, and SUN Microsystems’ series of 4-core multithread T2000 systems and the new X2100/x4100 DualCore AMD servers. “We have chosen best-of-breed components from leading industry players for top overall functionality, quality, and performance, based on open standards. This solution is state-of-art, future-proof, and ensures that we can provide a superior platform for our Mobile Office solution, including future services and network expansions” says Geir Løvnes, Network Norway CTO.

“Gintel is pleased to work with Network Norway in this highly competitive market. Our solution allows Network Norway to offer a superior service to their customers, and gives significantly more flexibility to customers than competitive offerings” says Norton Lokken, Sales Director at Gintel.

About Network Norway (www.networknorway.com): Network Norway is Norway’s new provider of telephony services, with over 20 years of experience in the business segment. Making your work day easier is Network Norway’s goal – tailored to your needs. Contact: Ingvild Myhre, Managing Director, +47 900 38 442.

About Gintel (www.gintel.com): Gintel is a leading provider of value added service applications to network operators and service providers enabling them to offer innovative and highly competitive services to the highly profitable business subscriber segment.
Contact: Norton Lokken, Sales Director, +47 932 34 810

About Cantata (www.cantata.com): Cantata Technology, established in 2006 through the combination of Brooktrout Technology and Excel Switching Corporation, provides enabling communications hardware and software that empowers the creation and delivery of anytime, anywhere IP-based communications applications. Leveraging more than 20 years of experience, Cantata offers the broadest range of products, along with a worldwide network of partners that allows service provider and enterprise customers to develop new products, introduce new services and cost-effectively transition networks to IP. Headquartered in Needham, Mass., Cantata maintains multiple locations worldwide in North America, Asia and Europe.

About BEA (www.bea.com): BEA Systems, Inc. is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, delivering powerful standards-based platforms for building enterprise applications and managing Service-Oriented Architectures even in heterogeneous IT environments. Customers depend on BEA Tuxedo®, WebLogic®, and AquaLogic® product lines to reduce IT complexity, leverage existing resources, and speed the delivery of new services. BEA also provides support for Blended strategies that combine Open Source and commercial software to best suit the needs of business and IT.
With over 16,000 customers including the majority of the Fortune Global 500, BEA provides the technology, solutions and services to help companies achieve a state of Business LiquidITy™ where enterprise assets are freed up to deliver maximum business value.

About SUN Microsystems (www.sun.com): Sun Microsystems Inc., (NASDAQ: SUNW) provides network computing infrastructure solutions that include computer systems, software, storage, and services. Its core brands include the Java technology platform, the Solaris operating system, StorageTek and the UltraSPARC processor. By investing in research and development Sun creates products and services that address the complex issues that customers face today, including increasing demands for network access, bandwidth and storage being driven by explosive growth in network participation and sharing. We innovate at all levels of the system and we partner with market leaders to provide value and choice for our customers. Sun's network computing infrastructure solutions are used in a wide range of industries including technical/scientific, business, engineering, telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, retail, government, life sciences, media and entertainment, transportation, energy/utilities and healthcare.