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For Immediate Release
News Release: 2 April 2007



Centile Closes Q1 2007 with Record Results

New customer wins, strategic alliances with leading technology partners, innovative features implementation fuel Centile's momentum in the VoIP applications market.

Sophia Antipolis, FRANCE, April 2, 2007 - Centile, the leading European VoIP Application Software vendor announced today that revenues for Q1 2007 showed a significant growth of 50% compared with Q4 2006 revenues. This quarterly revenue growth marks an extremely successful beginning of the year for Centile with major customer wins in Switzerland, France, Holland and Jordan, partnerships with leading edge technology wireless and data operators.

The continued ramp in revenue shows that the application space is now starting to take off and the market has started to move in that direction in Europe and the Emerging markets where Centile is focused. "Fat Pipe" Infrastructure is becoming more and more deployed where now carriers, enterprises and online companies that want to offer differentiated services - IMS services or converged services - are now able to finalize trials and lead to implementation.

VoIP technology is now evolving to become a part of a full multimedia portfolio of services a carrier can now offer, this has now become a key driver for the telecommunications market in Europe and globally to start to rapidly deploy services over the IP network.

Centile has experienced growth through its customer SMEs base as well as large multi-site enterprise deployments. These segments have the most to gain from the explosion of advanced and innovative application services.

Furthermore, Centile has lead the innovation sector of the application server niche by launching first to market products in the GSM-WiFi, as well as the WEB-Telecom convergence areas. These leading edge products have created additional new markets for Centile's current customer base as well as new prospects.

By the end of 2007 iLocus forecasts the total number of FMC users at around 6.5 million worldwide. This is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 110 percent to 126.4 million subscribers by the year 2011. The present number of FMC subscribers worldwide is estimated at 436,000.

To accelerate its lead with delivering its products via world-class partners, Centile has entered into strategic agreements with leading technology players such as BEA, HP and Cantata to bring full solutions to the market.

Shahal Khan, CEO for Centile commented: "we are very pleased with the response from current customers which have grown over 100% YTD on recurring orders as well as new additional customers. This is a clear sign that the application over IP market is now starting its take up based on successful infrastructure deployment of carriers in Europe, in the US and in emerging markets such as Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe as well as Middle East. Second look out for Centile this year to lead in the innovations space through which we will release first to market technology which will revolutionize the WEB-Telecom convergence space, this will be a true turning point in how communications will be used on the internet in the future".

Notes to Editors

About Centile
Centile is a leading enabler of next-generation SIP-based services for converged Fixed-Mobile and multimedia applications, and allows operators to offer unique value-added and cost-effective new multimedia services to both the business and consumer markets. Its pre-IMS VoIP applications platform, the IntraSwitch, provides the scalability, reliability and manageability to support hundreds of thousands of customers in a highly distributed and modular architecture. The platform comes fully loaded with ready-to-market service functionalities, which include Business Trunking, VoIP VPN, IP Centrex, Hybrid IP Centrex, Mobile IP Centrex, Intra Centrex, and Residential VoIP. Additionally, the platform offers value-added Class 5 features that include CTI (Computer Telephony Integration), a full Media Server with IVRs (Interactive Voice Response), ACD (Automatic Call Distribution), Conferencing, Presence Management, Instant Messaging, and Video support. Additional information is available at http://www.centile.com.

For further information contact:
Karine De Moraes
MarCom Manager
Centile
Tel : +33 4 97 231 265
Email:pr@centile.com

 

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