Sylantro Updates Its System

CHICAGO -- Sylantro Systems Corp. today announced major product upgrades and enhancements, collectively called Release 4.0, for the company's award-winning applications feature server for hosted communications services. Release 4.0 builds upon and further expands the field-proven capabilities of the Sylantro platform with key enhancements including the industry's first Macromedia® Flash®-based end-user portals for business and consumer markets with integrated personal communication scheduling, messaging and conferencing capabilities.

For service providers, the new Flash-based development environment reduces development time and costs by as much as 75% through new developer's tools, pre-integrated applications and support for new protocols. At SUPERCOMM 2005, Sylantro will demonstrate the new portals and capabilities in booth #59039 and in several partner booths.

"Our Lightyear XSTREAM(SM) product line, based on Sylantro's solution, delivers distinct, differentiated portal interfaces for our business and residential customers in both direct and wholesale models," said Bruce Widener, senior vice president of corporate development for Lightyear Network Solutions. "We're very excited about Release 4.0's new web capabilities, and new features and functionality that will enable unique services for next-generation consumer and business hosted applications."

The new Sylantro user portals provide a dynamic, easy-to-use interface with pre-integrated conferencing and messaging capabilities and support for Web Services Description Language (WSDL), SOAP and a new Enterprise Java Beans structure, all of which speed development. Release 4.0 offers privacy management services with time-of-day/day-of-week controls, call-screening capabilities and call refuse lists, all of which are easily configured via the intuitive Flash-based interface. Further, Release 4.0 expands Sylantro's leading mobility and convergence offerings with support for wireless 3GPP IMS applications, embedded video communications, and collaboration clients and applications.

"Release 4.0 is the culmination of more than 5 years of deployment experience across hundreds of installations globally from leading service providers, and represents the next generation in hosted communications services," said Bernard Gutnick, vice president of product marketing for Sylantro Systems. "With Release 4.0, service providers get to market more quickly with customized user-friendly portals, with new revenue-generating features and applications that deliver truly converged communications across multiple devices and networks. Release 4.0 brings new opportunities for service providers for wholesale and retail deployments in both consumer and business markets."

General availability of the Sylantro Release 4.0 applications feature server is planned for fourth quarter, 2005. Sylantro Systems is the leading provider of hosted PBX and IP Centrex applications, voice VPN capabilities, consumer broadband voice applications and hosted wireless solutions via the company's carrier-grade applications feature server. Sylantro's products are successfully deployed around the globe with the widest market distribution in its product class. The Sylantro platform provides the telco-grade scalability, reliability, operability and regulatory compliance required for massively scalable carrier deployments to serve millions of users.

Sylantro Systems Corp.