Lod, Israel, April 17, 2007 – AudioCodes (NASDAQ:AUDC), a leading provider of Voice over Packet (VoP) technologies and Voice Network products, and Telefonica, one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies, focusing its activities in the fixed and mobile telephony business, today announced that AudioCodes media gateways have been chosen for broadband connectivity for business customers and services for the Spanish market.
Ericsson Spain S.A., the main project contractor, has successfully integrated AudioCodes best of breed gateways into their solution enabling Telefonica Spain to provide advanced hosted services to the Spanish enterprise market. This solution offers a gradual migration to IP while keeping the customer’s existing PSTN telephone number along with receiving innovative IP Centrex services.
“We are pleased that a leading telecommunications operator such as Telefonica Spain has entered into a partnership with us and deployed our MediaPack Media Gateways,” stated Lior Aldema, Vice President of Marketing at AudioCodes. “This well known service provider has selected the full range of our feature-rich, CPE product offering in making a commitment to our best of breed media gateways.”
“Our collaboration with AudioCodes allows us to expand our VoIP services to the Spanish enterprise market,” said Mr. Juan Moreno, SMB Terminals Manager at Telefonica Spain. “Following extensive homologation testing, AudioCodes best-of-breed gateways were selected for their superb quality and high performance level.”