U4EA Technologies Expands Multi-Service Business Gateway Product Line

U4EA Technologies Expands Multi-Service Business Gateway Product Line

New U4EA Fusion Series Enables the Cost Effective, Secure Delivery of IP Multimedia Services to Small and Medium Businesses

FREMONT, CA – October 29, 2007 – U4EA Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of integrated access technology for converged communications, today announced it has extended its multi-service business gateway product line to meet the needs of small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) and enterprises. The U4EA Fusion 200 and Fusion 400 Series are all-in-one integrated IP communications devices which enable the fast, reliable and secure delivery of real-time unified network communications to businesses, with cost savings through integrated functionality and ease of management. 

“The market for multi-service business gateways is expanding, as companies continue to consolidate communication over IP networks,” said Norm Bogen, Director of Networking Research at In-Stat. “U4EA’s Fusion Series provides a highly integrated, robust and easy-to-manage multi-service access solution that enables service providers to conveniently and profitably provide managed data and hosted IP Telephony services to small-to-medium businesses and enterprises.” 

 U4EA’s multi-service business gateways (MSBGs) eliminate the need for separate router, firewall, NAT, ethernet switch, SIP session controller, and security products. The Fusion 200 series consists of small form-factor devices ideal for managed service delivery to small office users, while the 400 series is made up of enterprise-grade, rack-mountable devices suitable for small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs). All products deliver high-performance QoS, IP security (IPSec), and Firewall/Network Address Translation (FW/NAT) that ensure secure, wire-speed performance and reliable multi-service support for today’s converged networks.

The U4EA Fusion product line is supported by U4EA’s 

patented quality of service technology, GoS™ (Guarantee of Service), which guarantees service quality for applications of multiple media types (voice, data, video, collaboration), all accessible through a single access link (or WAN pipe). The Fusion 200 and Fusion 400 series of MSBGs delivers full support of all small office and SME unified communications needs, including voice, video and data, while supporting a variety of integrated (in the box) WAN connections. Options include Ethernet, DSL and T1/E1, as well as the use of external cable modems.

 The Fusion 210  and 410 provide a fully integrated ADSL WAN interface that lets small office and SME users take advantage of the high speed and low cost of ASDL compared to access methods such as T1 or leased lines. The Fusion 420 provides a fully integrated T1/E1 WAN. The 400 series MSBGs also provide an optional redundant power supply for enterprise-grade reliability in protecting the mission critical communications needs of businesses.  

 “With voice, video and data converging onto single IP networks, businesses need a solutions platform that ensures fast, reliable and secure delivery of mission-critical and time sensitive business transactions, VoIP and multimedia applications,” said Ken Epps, CEO of U4EA.

 “U4EA’s Fusion product line facilitates VoIP and video migration for all networks, and offers the best price and performance for a small-to-medium sized business integrated IP communications device.” The Fusion Series was developed specifically for SIP-based next generation networks carrying multiple types of real time applications coexisting with data and other streaming IP media. These total one box solutions interoperate with multiple VoIP solutions (both IP-Centrex and IP-PBX) and multiple vendor’s IP Phones, enabling SMEs to select best-in-class components for their solution. 

U4EA’s Fusion Series also supports VPN connections between multiple locations, allowing an IP-PBX at one site to serve multiple offices. SIP trunking support allows customers to connect to service providers over VoIP without the high capital and operational expense of ISDN or analog phone lines.  

 Additionally, these products are future-proofed, enabling new integrated IP services and multimedia features to be easily added. All Fusion products incorporate U4EA’s revolutionary GoS ™ technology, enabling SMEs to achieve high utilization of data bandwidth, while guaranteeing protected quality for critical real time traffic such as voice or video calls, streaming media, and higher priority data traffic, where up to 9 protected service classes are offered. 

Because bandwidth is managed in real-time, unused bandwidth does not need to be reserved or over-engineered. This patented QoS mechanism in an all-in one solution provides SMEs with the highest value solution to meet their multi-service needs. 

About GoS™The move to full multi-service and unified communications networks relies on deploying Quality of Service (QoS) in order to simultaneously support the traditional data streams and the quality-sensitive real-time applications. U4EA's GoS™ solution was developed with converged IP networks in mind, and unlike other QoS approaches, is specifically designed to assure the performance of concurrent quality-sensitive services. Since network congestion is inevitable, GoS was engineered to be fundamentally robust, delivering quality regardless of network load. 

  About U4EA Technologies Inc.U4EA Technologies Inc. is a leading provider of multi-service business gateways that enable service providers to deploy highly integrated, robust, and easy-to-manage IP communications solutions to small and medium enterprise (SME) customers. U4EA’s market-leading all-in-one customer premises devices ensure secure, reliable delivery of converged VoIP, data, and video services, with cost savings through integrated functionality and improved ease of management.

Founded in April 2004, U4EA Technologies, Inc. is a privately held company that has received funding from industry-leading investors.

 The company is headquartered in Fremont, California, with facilities in Bristol, England; Nice, France; and manufacturing in Shenzhen, China. For more information, visit U4EA at www.u4eatech.com.  

 U4EA contacts:Jennifer DeitschU4EA Technologies Inc. 925-831-2092Cell: 408-644-4859Email: jennifer.deitsch@u4eatech.com