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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- LignUp Corporation, the communications platform company for Web 2.0, today announced Release 4.0 of the LignUp Communications Application Server, delivering the industry’s most comprehensive suite of telephony Web services deployed within enterprise service-oriented architectures (SOA) and existing telecom infrastructures. LignUp 4.0 features 125 call control and media control functions exposed through LignUp Communications Web Services. The Web services are implemented by the J2EE-compliant1 LignUp Communications Integration Server, a new component of the LignUp Communications Application Server. The 100% software, standards-based (SIP, RTP, HTTP, SOAP, WSDL2) LignUp Communications Application Server enables developers to use their favorite programming languages and development environments to incorporate IP-based communications into Web applications, Web portals, business processes, mashups, blogs and wikis – often within a day or less.

With LignUp 4.0, developers can quickly and easily integrate communications into applications using LignUp Communications Web Services for fine-grained access to telephony, real-time media, interactive voice response (IVR), text-to-speech (TTS), voicemail, unified messaging and presence capabilities. LignUp 4.0-powered applications can be used to ring any phone – IP phones, mobile devices or fixed land line handsets – independent of the enterprise PBX, carrier switch or network to which they are attached. By extending the reach of voice-enabled applications and services to a broad community of consumer and business users, LignUp 4.0 is empowering enterprises, Web 2.0 companies, and service providers to realize the promise of communication-enabled business processes (CEBP) for greater personalization, productivity, collaboration and efficiency.

“'Telephony middleware’ platforms that expose media- and communications-rich activities as services for use in enterprise applications bind together the best of SIP and SOA. LignUp's Release 4.0 of its Communications Application Server, for example, helps developers, ISVs, and enterprises quickly add IP-based voice communications to business processes,” said Dana Gardner, founder of IT research firm Interarbor Solutions, and author of Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect blog on ZDNet.com. “Much as application servers helped redefine distributed ecommerce in the mid-1990s, telephony integration platforms like LignUp's will help automate the insertion of voice into today's business processes for richer communications, collaboration and workflow.”

LignUp Corp.