QUINTUM® PARTNERS WITH BCONVERGENT AND TARGET DISTRIBUTING TO OFFER PRE-CONFIGURED IP TELEPHONY BUNDLES

Pre-Configured IP Telephony Offerings Assure Compatibility Among Multiple Vendors Products

Quintum announces that their Tenor VoIP MultiPath Switches are being bundled with bConvergent OpenVoice software and state of the art IP telephones to provide full featured IP telephony to end users. Target Distributing is offering five pre-configured systems which include products from Quintum, bConvergent, Polycom, and D-Link, as well as the ability for customers to configure their own systems.

Targets multi-vendor bundles allow enterprises to deploy VoIP without worry of hardware compatibility conflicts, difficult user interfaces, costly upgrades and maintenance, or scalability constraints. These offerings are designed for offices with as few as 16 phones, yet they can be scaled to support thousands of multi-location users with separate or combined telephone carriers.

It is bConvergents OpenVoice advanced open standards telephony software that assures these bundles will allay any concerns that customers may have. OpenVoice works with any manufacturers standards-compliant hardware, offers a web-based interface, provides multiple site and remote management, ease of installation, scalability and multi-protocol connections (DSL, T1, etc.)

The Quintum Tenor addresses the concerns customers have with deploying VoIP. The Tenors unique MultiPath architecture makes it the industrys easiest solution to install. Its patented SelectNet feature assures voice quality by monitoring the QoS of every call and transparently switching calls to the PSTN in real time whenever the IP network cannot support a high quality voice call. Quintums Tenor product line assures high quality voice communications and a risk-free migration path for VoIP solutions.

Target Distributing, a wholesale distributor of telecommunications equipment, has developed these offerings to address their resellers needs for converged solutions. Due to the advanced technical nature of the bConvergent OpenVoice product line, Target will be providing training to their interconnects, installers and resellers.

Quintum is very excited to have been selected as one of Targets bundled IP Telephony product lines," said Chuck Rutledge, VP of Marketing for Quintum. Our Tenor products were built for this very type of 'plug and play application and we are looking forward to a long and prosperous partnership with Target."

Quintum's gateways, with their unique ability to provide seamless switching between traditional and IP telephony and ease of installation, provide just the added edge that we needed to make our OpenVoice bundles better than any other product currently on the market," says Joe Paiva, CEO of bConvergent. Every hardware manufacturer talks about their voice quality and reliability, but by making simple to install systems that are truly open-standards compliant, Quintum really delivers where most of the others fall down."

bConvergent
bConvergent is a privately-held company based in Rockville, MD. For more information, visit http://www.bConvergent.NET. bConvergent is headquartered at 9700 Great Seneca Highway, Rockville, MD 20850, and can be reached at 301-315-9300.

Target Distributing
Target Distributing Co. is a Germantown, MD based distributor of telecommunications and convergence products. Contact Target Distributing at 1-800-873-5528 or 301-296-9400, by fax at 301-296-9494, by e-mail at TGSales@targetdist.com or visit http://www.targetd.com. They are located at 19560 Amaranth Drive, Germantown, MD.

Quintum Technologies
Eatontown, N.J.-based Quintum Technologies specializes in voice-over-IP technologies that bring the reliability and voice clarity of public telephone networks to Internet telephony. Its Tenor® VoIP MultiPath Switches help businesses of all sizes migrate to converged networking without risk. For more information, call 877-SPEAK IP (877-773-2547), 732-460-9000 outside the U.S., or visit http://www.quintum.com