Star2Star Communications Enters Into Agreement with Grandstream Networks to Purchase GXP-2000 SIP Enterprise Phones for the Star2Star Platform

Grandstream Networks, Inc. a leading designer and manufacturer of IP Voice and Video endpoints for broadband networks, and Star2Star Communications, maker of the world's most reliable business grade Internet phone solution, today announced they have selected the GXP-2000 SIP Enterprise Phone as a SIP phone for their end-to-end solution.

Broward Convention Center, Ft. Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB) January 26, 2007 -- Grandstream Networks, Inc. a leading designer and manufacturer of IP Voice and Video endpoints for broadband networks, and Star2Star Communications, maker of the world's most reliable business grade Internet phone solution, today announced they have selected the GXP-2000 SIP Enterprise Phone as a SIP phone for their end-to-end solution.

"After extensive testing in our laboratories, we are confident that both the performance and price of the GXP-2000 complements our service offering," said Joe Rhem, President and CTO Star2Star Communications. "We believe the superior feature functionality, performance and price of the GXP SIP Enterprise Phone will enable us to maintain and grow our customer base."

The GXP-2000 is a next-generation enterprise SIP telephone that is feature rich, easy to use, supports integrated power-over-Ethernet and is competitively priced. Expandable, secure and easy to manage, the GXP-2000 offers superior audio quality, 4 line indicators, 7 programmable keys, visual message indicator, full duplex hands-free speakerphone, dual 10M/100Mbps Ethernet ports, intuitive user interfaces, large back-lit graphical LCD display with support for multiple languages, security and privacy protection (SRTP, AES encrypted provisioning file, and soon to be released support for SIPS/TLS), screen content customization using XML, automated phone book synchronization with directory server using XML, as well as broad interoperability with most 3rd party SIP products. The GXP-2000 is an ideal IP phone for both the small business and the enterprise customer.

"We are very excited about our new partnership with Star2Star Communications," said David Li, CEO of Grandstream Networks. "This partnership confirms that Grandstream's innovative IP voice product portfolio provides a best in class solution for the enterprise VoIP communication market. We look forward to a long and prosperous partnership."

As the PBX manufacturer and the Internet phone service provider, Star2Star's end-to-end architecture is a ground breaking VoIP technological approach. Because Star2Star is at both ends of the call path they can offer 24x7x365 monitoring of the phone system, network and call quality with a 6-way backup that involves triple redundant internet connections, redundant phone carriers, analog line switchover, automatic call-forwarding if your office power is lost, data center bypass and redundant self-swapping switching equipment at the data center. This exclusive integrated approach leverages Star2Star as the only internet phone solution vendor to be able to guarantee 99.9% reliability.

About Grandstream Networks
Grandstream Networks, Inc. is an award-winning designer and manufacturer of next generation IP voice & video products for broadband networks. Grandstream's products deliver superb sound and picture quality, rich telephony features, full compliance with industry standards, and broad interoperability with most service providers and 3rd party SIP based VoIP products. Grandstream is consistently recognized in the VoIP industry for their innovation, affordability and superior value in their products. Grandstream Networks is a private company headquartered in Brookline, MA with offices in Los Angeles, Dallas and China. For more information, please visit www.grandstream.com.

About Star2Star Communications
Star2Star Communications, the world's most reliable business grade internet phone solution, exclusively offers a fully integrated end-to-end architecture. As both the manufacturer of the system hardware and the provider of the telephone service, Star2Star monitors and manages all aspects of the system, network and call quality. The StarSystem is sold through a nationwide dealer network and is the only solution at both ends of the call path. The fully integrated approach from Star2Star is proven to provide powerful features, superior quality, guaranteed reliability and dramatic savings on phone costs for small to midsized organizations. For more information, please visit www.star2star.com

Grandstream Networks Contact                       
Marianne Rocco                                                        
(617) 566-9300                                                            

Star2Star Communications Contact
Marla Whittemore
(941)234-0001, ext 108

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