Nortel Expands Sip Efforts

BOSTON -- Nortel (NYSE:NT) (TSX:NT), a global leader in SIP technology, is accelerating mass deployment of VoIP and multimedia services through new relationships with industry leaders in SIP-based technologies.

Aastra Technologies Limited, CounterPath Solutions, Inc. (formerly Xten Networks, Inc) (OTCBB:CTPS), Eyeball Networks, Renesas Technology Corp., and VTech Communications Inc. will join more than 120 companies, including previously announced Arcturus Networks Inc., i3 micro technology, NETGEAR and Polycom, Inc., who are currently working with Nortel to promote industry-wide SIP adoption.

These companies will focus on bringing to market SIP technology and products that are interoperable with Nortel's Multimedia Portfolio, expanding the availability of voice over broadband consumer and business applications and devices. The new consumer products will include set-top boxes and softphones for home-based broadband voice services and software applications that extend multimedia services to wireless devices. The new business products will include cordless and desktop IP phones.

"Nortel is making it possible for service provider customers to penetrate key consumer, retail and business markets in profound new ways," said Alan Stoddard, general manager, Carrier Multimedia Networks, Nortel. "When leaders in consumer networking technologies team with Nortel to deliver open, standards-based solutions, it creates a powerful catalyst for mass deployment of new SIP-based multimedia services. With SIP, service providers can harness the power and ubiquity of IP to create innovative new services that combine elements from telephony and other Web applications like e-mail, messaging, presence and video streaming."

Nortel Networks Ltd.