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RedShift Networks Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY® Magazine’s Thirteenth Annual Product of the Year Award

RedShift HAWK UCTM-2K Appliance Recognized for Outstanding Innovation

SAN RAMON, CA, FEBRUARY 18, 2011 — RedShift Networks, Inc announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named RedShift HAWK UCTM-2K as a recipient of the 2010 INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year Award.

The emergence of IP Voice, Video, Unified Communications and Collaborations infrastructure has caused a fundamental shift in the telecommunications industry. Traditional communication systems and applications that run on legacy TDM networks are being replaced by their IP counterparts today providing numerous benefits to businesses. The migration provides numerous benefits ranging from overall low cost of operation, open standards frameworks, easy integration with 3rd party applications and services and adaptability to business fluctuations etc. This phenomenon is exacerbated with the advent of new generation of devices such as smart phones and tablets that can provide instant-on, instant-connect, communicate and collaborate capabilities providing rich user experience such as UC Presence (or Collaboration) services that can be enabled “from any device, any place and at any time”.

The stakeholders must understand that while IP Voice, Video, UC networks and applications present great promise, they also present unique security requirements that are different than conventional data applications. Due to real-time nature of communications with low tolerance to false-positives/false-negatives, combined with the complex interaction between users, devices, applications and network, the security risks, attack surface and threat vectors are vastly different and alarming, says Srinivas Mantripragada, PhD, CTO & VP, Products at RedShift Networks. The security threats in these environments can be very demanding ranging from VOIP/UC Botnet attacks, SPAM over Internet Telephony (SPIT) attacks, Protocol Fuzzing attacks, Toll Frauds, stealth DOS/DDOS attacks, rising vulnerabilities, insider threats, malware infected devices, rogue applications (or users), Eavesdropping, Signaling or Media threats.

RedShift Networks is a technology company in the fast growing Cloud and Enterprise based UC (VOIP/Video) Security space. Security threats have increased exponentially since the recent financial meltdown in 2008 - UK Member of Parliament/Royals voicemail hacked, $40B lost in fraud calls, rising Botnet scanning agents activity, Caller-ID spoofing and Voice Phishing attacks. Today’s legacy security solutions like Firewalls, IPS/IDS and SBC’s solutions aren’t well suited to handle these new generation of security risks and attack vectors, says Amitava Mukherjee, CEO of RedShift Networks. RedShift manufactures a family of UCTM appliances (virtual) for large, medium, and branch offices, for enterprises and carriers.

The RedShift family of UCTM appliances provides highly specialized security solutions designed to provide complete protection, visibility and control for voice-, media-, unified communications and collaboration over-IP traffic. The solution offers a blended approach to security, using patent pending Synchronous Flow Technology™ that blends multiple technologies such as stateful inspection, protocol anomaly detection, multi-event correlation engines and intrusion prevention applied to VOIP (and UC) traffic, to sophisticated UC applications (and user-) aware behavioral learning techniques and provide a best-of-breed security solution. UCTM appliances combine traditionally separate security services into a single device, providing complete control, visibility and protection to core UC infrastructure, servers, users and applications. “I am pleased to announce RedShift Networks as a Product of the Year Award winner. The editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY have verified that RedShift HAWK UCTM-2K displays quality and innovation plus provides real needs in the marketplace,” stated Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. “I would like to congratulate RedShift Networks for its commitment to advancing IP communication technologies.”

2010 Product of the Year winners are published in the February 2011 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, (www.itmag.com). INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the authority in IP communication since 1998™.

For more information about TMC, please visit www.tmcnet.com.

About RedShift Networks

RedShift Networks is the leader in providing secure Communication and Collaboration solutions, the industry’s first complete security solution for VOIP, Video and Unified Communications & Collaborations (UC) applications and services. The core team has deep expertise in voice, data and security and worked previously at Cisco, Avaya, Nortel, HP, SGI, NetContinuum, Secure Computing and many other leading companies. Their expertise forms the foundation of RedShift UCTM products that provide complete security, visibility, and control for real-time voice, video and multi-media traffic. RedShift Condor Labs (www.condorlabs.net) researches the newest vulnerabilities in the VOIP/UC environments and develops technology to protect existing networks against these vulnerabilities. For more information, visit www.redshiftnetworks.com, or call 925-242-2530.

About INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine

INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the IP Communications Authority since 1998™. Beginning with the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been providing unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine reaches more than 225,000 readers, including pass-along readers. For more information, please visit www.itmag.com.

About TMC:

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is a global, integrated media company helping clients build communities in print, in person, and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, NGN and InfoTECH Spotlight magazines. TMC is the producer of ITEXPO, the world’s leading B2B communications event. TMCnet.com, which is read by two million unique visitors each month, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. In addition, TMC runs multiple industry events: 4GWE; Smart Grid Summit; M2M Evolution; Cloud Communications Summit; Social CRM Expo; SIP Tutorial; VIPeering; Business Video Expo; CVx; Digium|Asterisk World; StartupCamp; MSPAlliance MSPWorld and more! Visit TMC Events for a complete listing and further information. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

Company Contact: Jenni Adair Marketing Manager jennikadair@yahoo.com 925.242.2530

TMC Contact: Jan Pierret Marketing Manager 203-852-6800, ext. 228 jpierret@tmcnet.com

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