Shunra Receives a 2007 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award

Shunra VE honored for delivering exceptional VoIP/IP communications solutions.

New York, NY (PRWEB) September 13, 2007 -- Shunra (www.shunra.com), the world's leading provider of network emulation solutions, announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) has named Shunra VE as a recipient of a 2007 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award presented by INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine (www.itmag.com).

"Having a respected organization like Technology Marketing Corporation single out Shunra VE as one of the excellent solutions of the year in the industry is truly an honor," said Thomas Charlton, Shunra CEO. "Winning this award confirms Shunra's preeminent position as a solutions provider in the VoIP/IP marketplace. It also recognizes Shunra VE's demonstrated superiority as a solution that delivers the most significant benefits to customers needing to make informed decisions about the performance of their VoIP platforms over the network before deployment, and throughout the entire development lifecycle. Shunra VE is the only reliable and complete network emulation testing solution in the VoIP space, which is why enterprises and vendors are consistently choosing Shunra to accurately create the production environment prior to application rollout."

Shunra VE was also named a 2007 Innovation Award winner by TMC Labs and a 2006 Product of the Year and Best of Show winner by Internet Telephony, in addition to receiving a number of other prestigious industry awards.

Shunra VE provides a comprehensive testing solution for both enterprise users and VoIP vendors. It emulates any production environment in a pre-deployment lab, providing a powerful, flexible and easy way to test VoIP platform performance and call quality under a wide variety of network impairments. For enterprise users, Shunra VE can be used to accurately evaluate and compare different VoIP vendor solutions under the real-life enterprise network conditions, and even determine call quality at all remote locations. With this information, users can select the most appropriate VoIP solution and make the right infrastructure investments needed to support remote end-users as well as IT business objectives. For VoIP solution vendors, Shunra VE provides a way to develop, test and optimize their solutions for all possible network conditions and customer environment idiosyncrasies, during product development. Furthermore, it enables vendors to prove exactly how their VoIP solutions will perform across a customer's actual network environment, during the pre-sales process.

"We are proud to present Shunra with a 2007 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award. Shunra VE has proven its outstanding contribution to IP communications and delivered winning solutions for its customers," said Rich Tehrani, Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

"Taking risks to advance VoIP technology and provide real solutions has earned Shunra recognition from the editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY and an INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award. Shunra VE has excelled in delivering solutions and its customers are extremely pleased and have offered their testaments of support," said Greg Galitzine, Editorial Director of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

The 2007 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award winners list has been published in the October 2007 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, www.itmag.com.

For more information, please visit www.tmcnet.com.

About INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine

INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP Authority since 1998™. Since the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been providing unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs and Miercom. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has a circulation of 225,000 including passalong readers. For more information please visit www.itmag.com.

About TMC

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes Customer Inter@ction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 5,200 most visited Web sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves three million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, Communications Developer Conference, and Call Center 2.0 Conference. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.) For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

About Shunra

Shunra is the pioneer and market leader in testing the performance and behavior of services across today's complex networks. The Shunra VE network emulation solutions let users know exactly how their voice, video and business applications will perform in any network environment - before they are rolled out into production. Shunra is the only company to provide integrated hardware and software network emulation products and services that address the needs of all IT groups throughout the application development lifecycle. Many leading companies worldwide use Shunra's award-winning solutions and services, including 3M, Boeing, Cisco, Dow Chemical, EMC, FedEx, General Motors, JPMorgan Chase, Kelly Services, Merrill Lynch, Motorola, Nestle, Pitney Bowes, and Vodafone. Shunra has offices in New York City, Philadelphia, Israel, and the UK. Shunra is also supported through a global network of channel partners. For more information on Shunra, please visit www.shunra.com.

Shunra VE is a trademark of Shunra Software Ltd. All other trademarks and registered trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners.

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