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For Immediate Release
News Release: 20 November 2007



Linksys product portfolio for Service Providers compliant with Centile's IntraSwitch

Successful completion of Centile's interoperability testing with the wide portfolio of Linksys CPE products allows businesses and residential users to enjoy IP telephony services

Paris & Sophia Antipolis, France - 20 November 2007 - Linksys, a Division of Cisco, the leading provider of VoIP, wireless and networking hardware for the consumer and small business environments, and Centile, the leading European enabler of next-generation SIP-based services for converged fixed-mobile and multimedia applications, today announce the compliancy of Linksys IP Phones and SPA-1001, SPA-2102 and PAP2T with Centile's IntraSwitch. The combination of Centile's VoiP Applications platform and Linksys CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) product portfolio create an attractive opportunity for service providers to roll out competitive, feature-rich VoiP services to their customers across EMEA.

"We are excited to support Centile's applications with our product portfolio," said Ivar Beljaars, Technical Solutions Manager for Linksys. "Customers are now able to take advantage of the Linksys VoIP products with Centile's value-added and innovative applications."

"This strategic combination of Linksys products with our solution represents an excellent addition to our family of leading third-party vendors," stated Jose Ruiz, CEO for Centile. He added, "the supported Linksys products enable our customers to offer best-of breed VoiP CPE equipment to their end customer base, which give us further competitive advantage and will certainly help accelerating our worldwide market penetration."

The stylish and functional in design, Linksys SIP-based IP Phone series are ideal for business and high-end residential use. Combined with Centile's IntraSwitch it offers excellent audio quality, a broad range of voice codecs, secure remote provisioning and unobtrusive in-service software upgrades. With hundreds of features and configurable service parameters, Centile's IntraSwitch and Linksys IP Phones address the requirements of traditional business and residential users, leveraging the advantages of IP telephony. Features such as easy station moves, presence, and shared line appearances are just some of advantages of the Centile's IntraSwitch and the Linksys SIP handset combination.

Centile also supports Linksys SPA 1001, 2102 and PAP2T VoIP adaptors. The combined solution enables enterprise end-users to benefit from Centile IntraSwitch's next-generation features and applications, while at the same time leveraging existing handsets and infrastructure.

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.

About Linksys
Founded in 1988, Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems, Inc., (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the recognized global leader in Wireless, VoIP and Ethernet networking for consumer, SOHO and small business users. Linksys is dedicated to making networking easy and affordable for its customers, offering innovative, award-winning products that seamlessly integrate with a variety of devices and applications. Linksys provides award-winning product support to its customers. For more information please visit http://www.linksys.com

For further information contact:

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

Melodie Testelin
Linksys
Tel:+33 15804 3102
Email:mtesteli@cisco.com