Carrier IP World Forum 2000 Booth #300

WESTFORD, Mass., February 7, 2000 – Sonus Networks executives will be featured in a number of panel discussions on industry trends and issues during the Carrier IP World Forum 2000 conference and exhibition next week in Miami. In addition to participating in these conference sessions, Sonus will also be demonstrating its award-winning, carrier-class gateway switch, the GSX9000TM Open Services Switch. 

Sonus speakers and topics scheduled to appear at the Carrier IP World Forum include: 

Sunday, February 13, 2000, 1:00-5:00 pm
Roundtable: "Softswitch Technologies: Business, Technology and Strategy Implications"
Speaker: Mike Hluchyj, founder and chief technology officer 

Monday, February 14, 2000, 8:00-9:30 am
Session A1: "Fundamentals of IP Telephony: Technology Basics, Networks, Applications and Markets"
Session chairperson: Bob Dye, director of product marketing
Speaker: Mike Hluchyj, founder and chief technology officer 

Monday, February 14, 2000, 11:30 am-12:45 pm
Session B3: "Protocols and Standards for the Next-Generation IP Network: A Status Report"
Speaker: Bob Dye, director of product marketing

The Carrier IP World Forum 2000 conference and exhibition will be held February 14-17, 2000 at the Fontainebleau Hilton Resort and Towers in Miami, Florida. Additional information on the conference is available at http://www.iec.org. 

About Sonus Networks

Sonus Networks, Inc. is delivering a new class of carrier solutions that enable the movement of telephony to converged packet networks and the development of a new generation of innovative voice and data services. The award-winning Sonus Packet Telephony suite and Open Services ArchitectureTM (OSA) cut the time-to-market for competitive new service products, allowing carriers and third-party developers to sustain and expand marketshare, and build important new revenue streams. Its highly scalable products fully interoperate with and extend the life and utility of today's public network. Sonus embodies in its management and staff decades of experience in developing carrier-class solutions at companies such as Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), Lucent Technologies (Nasdaq: LU), Nortel Networks (NYSE: NT). Sonus, founded in 1997, is headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts and is privately held. Additional information is available at http://www.sonusnet.com.

GSX9000 and Open Services Architecture are trademarks of Sonus Networks. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.