Tinley Park, IL - September 11, 2007 - NeoPhonetics®, a telephony provider that designs, implements and supports custom VoIP systems for enterprises, today announced the launch of its Asterisk® Business Edition-based unified messaging platform for the majority of legacy TDM and IP PBX systems on the market today, including systems from Avaya, Cisco, NEC and Nortel. This platform benefits large organizations, such as universities, looking to add unified messaging or replace expensive licensed-based unified messaging systems with a more affordable, feature-rich solution.

“Like many of our products, the unified messaging platform evolved directly from a custom application we designed for an existing customer,” said Chad Agate, CEO of NeoPhonetics. “This new platform can eliminate the need to replace old PBX systems that work well but lack critical advanced communications capabilities, while also providing customers with a simple way to evaluate Digium Asterisk as a cost-effective option for replacing their PBXs in the future. We anticipate that the ability to provide flexible unified messaging for any amount of multi-tenant users for one fixed price will be particularly attractive to the university community.”

The platform software comes with NeoPhonetics Asterisk-certified onsite integration services, as well as access to 24/7 service and support. PBX system administrators receive a simple management interface system that allows for automated configuration of moves, additions and changes so that there are no additional charges for adding users or making changes to the system.

“The flexibility Digium Asterisk provides continues to challenge the creativity of our design and development team, because integration possibilities are virtually endless,” continued Agate. “Ultimately, we look to integrate individual applications such as this platform into one, unified product that provides rapid, automated configuration and provisioning of enterprise-grade, high availability PBX systems.”