CommuniGate choose Feith Systems to Provide Integrated Archiving Solutions for Full Compliance of IP Communications

Industry Leaders Team Up to Enable Customers to Actively Comply With Newly-Enacted FRCP and Sarbanes-Oxley Regulatory and Legislative Mandates for Retention of E-mail

MILL VALLEY, Calif. -- CommuniGate Systems, the leader in scalable Internet Communications solutions, today announced a joint development partnership with Feith Systems and Software Inc. that provides an integrated archiving solution to meet legal and regulatory compliance needs. The partnership allows customers to ensure e-mail archiving in accordance with compliance and legal requirements. This new solution helps avoid fines and penalties stemming from failure to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley laws and newly enacted FRCP requirements pertaining to the proper preservation and production of e-mail.

Feith's Mail IQ e-mail archive is tightly integrated into CommuniGate Pro to enable easy management of archiving and compliance from one console. Benefits include:

1. Scalability
2. Infrastructure/database compatibility
3. Quick adoption of organizational change
4. Predictable integration upgrades
5. Knowledge transfer/self sufficiency
6. Regulatory control for non-traditional data and time sensitive processes
7. Management of both structured and unstructured data
8. Applied "digital fingerprints" for enhanced security of all e-mail and attachments
9. Rapid retrieval of archived e-mails and attachments using Mail iQ's WatchFor search functionality
10. Automated lifecycle retention schedule for all e-mail with "Legal Hold and Freeze" functionality

A growing number of federal regulations covering the security of IP communications, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, SEC 17a-4, NASD and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), mandate the secure storage of business records, including all e-mail messages. Additionally, court requests for e-discovery and the FRCP (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure) puts all businesses that cannot produce e-mail or IP communications records potentially at risk of major financial penalties.

Driven by regulatory compliance, the archiving market will gain an annual growth rate of nearly 35% through 2009, according to research from IDC. According to The Radicati Group the installed base of users of e-mail archiving solutions has climbed steadily to 38 million today.

"By integrating Feith's Mail IQ solution we are able to add archiving and full compliance into CommuniGate Pro and offer another important component to our suite for Internet Communications. With new regulations arising and compliance needs being different in each country, the need for a turnkey solution is overwhelming, especially in the carrier and ASP markets," said Jon R. Doyle, vice president of business development for CommuniGate Systems."

"The partnership with CommuniGate Systems places us in a position to serve global ASPs and service providers with large customer bases seeking to offer a comprehensive archiving solution for e-mail retention," said Bob Goldstein, compliance practice director for Feith Systems and Software, Inc.

CommuniGate Pro is recognized as the clear leader in providing carriers with rich packaged features that increase the subscriber value potential and increase retention rates. The all-active dynamic clustering provides multi-million user sites 99.999% uptime and a rolling update capability that no other platform is able to maintain. CommuniGate Pro is the first real-time Internet Communications platform to offer users access to a single source for e-mail, collaboration, voice/video and mobile IP Communications. CommuniGate Pro allows subscribers a choice of clients - IP phones, soft clients, traditional telephony, mobile devices, browsers and IM agents - all through a single account. A full-featured version of CommuniGate Pro may be downloaded today at http://www.communigate.com.

About Feith Systems

Feith Systems, established in 1979, offers comprehensive enterprise content management solutions. Feith's off-the-shelf technology includes compliance and document management, electronic forms, workflow and E-mail archiving. Several industries, such as financial services, banking, insurance, healthcare, higher education, government, manufacturing, and services are using Feith technology to efficiently manage their content and business processes as well as make smarter decisions faster. Additional information is available at www.feith.com.

About CommuniGate Systems

Founded in 1991 and based in Mill Valley, California, CommuniGate Systems develops carrier-class Internet Communications software for broadband & mobile service providers, enterprises, and OEM partners worldwide. Over 125 million subscribers including 45 million voice customers rely upon CommuniGate Systems products for their voice and data communication today. CommuniGate Systems is the most trusted & financially stable vendor which maintains the highest customer satisfaction levels in the Rich Media Communications industry. CommuniGate Systems provides flexibility, performance, scalability, with the benchmark proven architecture that remains un-challenged in the industry. Our open development environment with simple APIs delivers extensible flexibility with a unique clustering technology for 99.999% uptime for the most demanding application environments.