NewStep Networks Gets Personal with Service Convergence

NewStep Networks Inc., a market and technology leader in session
management convergence solutions for carriers and enterprises, today
announced that it has added personal communications capabilities to
its award-winning suite of fixed mobile convergence products. This
extensive package of high-value services dramatically enhances today´s
communications toolset, delivering a superior user experience while
streamlining the process of bringing people together.

Personalized communications is the next evolution of convergence,
stretching beyond both fixed-mobile and unified communications.
NewStep´s personal communications convergence offering enhances the
user environment by providing users with a communications experience
that is specifically tailored to their unique personas and leverages
all available presence, location and behavior characteristics to
provide a consistently enhanced service across any device, access
mechanism or network.

NewStep is delivering this suite of personalized communications
capabilities on its award-winning Converged Services Node (CSN)
platform. The new features abstract the user experience from the
underlying network, and provide a consistent layer of service
convergence features that are independent of the underlying access
technology, including Voice Call Continuity (VCC), Femtocell, WiMax or
3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE).

NewStep enhances user control over the individual communications
experience by allowing users to manage multiple personas (e.g.
business, personal, etc.) across multiple devices and numbers.
Additional capabilities include:

-- User-configured profiles that include prioritized and
preferred numbers and devices

-- Freedom to manage availability, location, presence and
call-handling via Time-of-Day/Day-of-Week routing

-- Integration to advanced presence servers, including Oracle
OCMS and Microsoft OCS

"NewStep continues to drive innovation in the fixed-mobile
convergence market and launching personalized communications furthers
our commitment to enable the delivery of truly converged services,"
said Shannon Bell, vice president of product management at NewStep.
"Personalized communications moves beyond voice to allow users the
ultimate in flexibility and control over how they define their voice
or data services, thus reducing complexity, improving productivity and
enabling a better and more flexible communications experience."

Please visit NewStep Networks in the Canadian Pavilion Booth #
2.1C58, Stand 16 at Mobile World Congress, February 11 to 14, at the
Fira de Barcelona.

About NewStep Networks

NewStep Networks is an award-winning provider of seamless session
management solutions based on its patented CSN platform. NewStep
solutions enable enterprises and consumers to have an "any device, any
place, any content" consistent communications experience by
facilitating the movement of information across all access
technologies. Currently deployed and handling millions of calls per
day, NewStep Networks´ platform offers a rich set of features that
works with today´s technology and devices, as well as those being
developed for tomorrow. For more information, visit www.newstep.com.

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