Ubiquityâ_Ts Speak Solution Enables Service Providers and Enterprises to Deliver A New Generation of IP Conferencing Services Centered On Multimedia Collaboration

Cardiff, UK â_" March 21, 2006 â_" Ubiquity Software [LSE: UBQ.L], the leading provider of SIP software solutions that enable a new generation of communication services, today announced Ubiquity Speak Conference Director, a pre-packaged, feature-rich IP conferencing solution that lays the foundation for a new generation of converged multimedia conferencing services.

Speak Conference Director (Speak) provides existing conferencing service providers, telecom carriers and new market entrants a cost-effective, highly scalable solution for delivering compelling conferencing services. Bell Canada, demonstrating its leadership in conferencing, has selected Ubiquityâ_Ts Speak IP conferencing solution and standards-based SIP Application Server platform to deliver advanced services to enterprises throughout Canada.

Speak uniquely combines a feature rich, off-the-shelf IP conferencing application with a programmable horizontal SIP application server platform. This gives service providers and enterprises the best of both worlds: a robust, easily deployable IP conferencing application that can be turned up in less than 60 days and a flexible Service Delivery Platform (SDP) that facilitates the addition of new applications, such as residential VoIP, that share network resources. Using Ubiquityâ_Ts powerful service creation environment and developer tools, customers can easily deploy other IP-based applications, build new or enhance existing applications with the addition of features such as video, presence-based services and IM-to-conference.

The conferencing services market will experience its most dramatic transformation ever in the next two-to-three years as the enterprise, the networks, and infrastructure move to IP. 2005 showed continued strength in market demand for audio and web conferencing solutions, according to the Q4 and full year 2005 Wainhouse Research report CSP SpotCheck. On a worldwide basis unattended audio volume grew 26%, total audio volume increased 23%, and revenues for web conferencing climbed 10%. The worldwide conferencing services market is very robust with 10 out of the 12 local markets tracked realizing double digit growth â_" Germany and Canada gaining 50% and 43% respectively over the prior year. Wainhouse Research estimates the two largest web conferencing providers drove the market with 3 billion minutes of usage.

"The conferencing industry is undergoing dramatic change as traditional audio-only conferencing has largely become a commodity business with little differentiation and subject to price pressure" said Marc Beattie, CSP Practice Manager and Partner at Wainhouse Research. "There is tremendous depth and growth opportunity in many local markets and IP-based conferencing, such as Ubiquityâ_Ts Speak application, opens up a new world of differentiated service possibilities based on converged multimedia services that include voice, web, data and video."

"Built on Ubiquityâ_Ts industry-leading SIP Application Server, our Speak Conference Director offers service providers a best-in-class IP Conferencing solution," said John Hart, Vice President of Product Line Management for Ubiquity. "This flexible, pre-packaged solution provides extended features beyond that of traditional siloâ_Td conferencing systems. Speak, being SIP-based, provides a foundation on which service providers and enterprises can deploy additional value added services for significant differentiation and incremental return on investment."

White Paper on IP Conferencing

A white paper discussing the economic benefits and enhanced service capabilities of SIP-based IP conferencing is available for download at http://www.ubiquitysoftware.com/speak. The paper compares and contrasts traditional conferencing with IP, and describes strategies to improve return on investment through market extensions.

About Speak Conference Director

Leveraging Ubiquityâ_Ts SIP-based VoIP expertise and commercial deployments of IP conferencing applications, Speak offers a full-featured audio and web conferencing solution that provides significant operational cost savings over proprietary, all-in-one legacy conference bridges. Speak harnesses the processing power of next generation IP media servers that scale to many thousands of simultaneous users with support for bridging and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) capabilities. Speak allows service providers and enterprises to deploy a single IP platform for a variety of conference services â_" scheduled or reservationless - sparing the expense and support requirements incurred with operating multiple conference platforms. Speak can support multiple deployment models, including CSP hosted; enterprise hosted (CPE); or as a managed service offering.

Through its customizable web portal interface, Speak gives conference moderators total control by providing them with visual tools that facilitate conference management. Easy-to-use Speak web collaboration tools allow moderators to share presentations, web content, applications and documents in real time with individuals and groups around the world.

About Ubiquity

Ubiquity Software Corporation plc, listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange, develops and markets SIP-based communications software to service providers, ISVs and OEMs around the world. Its award-winning SIP Application Server (SIP A/S) is both a carrier-class deployment platform and a programmable, standards-based application creation environment (ACE) that allows customers to develop and deploy next-generation converged communications services. Ubiquity assists customers to accelerate the creation of customized SIP applications through its Professional Services Organization. The company is headquartered in Cardiff and has corporate offices in the US and Canada and representation in Japan and China. For more information, please visit www.ubiquitysoftware.com or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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