April 14th - VisionOSS Appoints Mike Frayne as CEO

Reading, April 14, 2006: VisionOSS, a leading provider of OSS provisioning and managing software for IP telecommunications, today announced the appointment of Mike Frayne as Chief Executive Officer.

Prior to joining VisionOSS, Mike was co-founder and Executive Chairman of Intec Telecom Systems PLC. Prior to founding the Intec Group he worked as a consultant for a number of years, following IT management roles in the investment banking industry.

He holds an MBA from Wits Business School, Johannesburg, and a BSc in Information Technology and Psychology. Mike was named an Ernst & Young ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ in 2001. Mike’s business interests are truly global, ranging from companies in Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific and United States.

Mike Frayne said:
"VisionOSS is at an exciting stage in its life cycle, having already established itself as a strong player in the Service Provider VoIP OSS space, with its Cisco partnership and its beachhead customers.  I am really excited by the opportunity in front of us at VisionOSS – the forecasted growth over the next 12 months, will be a major watershed for the company."

Paul Brennan, Chairman of VisionOSS, said:
"Mike has an impressive track record in the OSS software industry and an extraordinary level of experience in taking a business from start-up to IPO. Mike's appointment comes at a time when VisionOSS has already achieved considerable success and highlights our determination to build on its leading position in Service Provider VoIP provisioning. We are delighted to have him on board."

For further information please contact:

VisionOSS
Paul Brennan (Non-Exec Chairman) – paul@korral.com
Stefan Peters (Commercial Director) – stefan.peters@visionoss.com

VisionOSS is an Independent software vendor, established in June 2003.  Based in the , but operating in Europe, Asia and North America, VisionOSS has developed an automated provisioning and management solution for large scale, service provider IP Voice.  With VisionOSS, service providers are able to virtualize their IP-PBX Clusters, gateways, soft-switches and application server architectures on a massive scale, allowing for far greater return on capital as well as lower operating costs.  IP telephony deployments that were previewed as taking months to install can now be delivered in a fraction of the time, with huge associated cost savings and near-immediate ROI.

The VisionOSS technology has been selected by Cisco Systems for their Hosted, Unified CallManager Services architecture, which targets service providers and large scale enterprises.  A number of PTTs, CLECs, as well as Outsourcers have selected VisionOSS within their IP Voice architecture.

May 19th - VisionOSS Secures £1 million in Seed Capital

Reading, – May 19th 2006

VisionOSS, the leading OSS vendor for Service Provider Hosted IP Voice management solutions has secured £1.0 million in a private placement to Investek Pty Ltd.

The initial seed round of capital is at a significant increase in VisionOSS’s valuation, reflecting the company’s progress since its founders created the company in 2003.

Proceeds of the investment will be used to accelerate the development of VisionOSS’s Business Voice Service Management (BVSM) offering and continue the rapid expansion of sales, deployment services, engineering and customer support in the US market.

VisionOSS’s BVSM solution is designed to reduce complexity, speed implementation and cut costs for IPT architectures. BVSM is a key element in the successful deployment and operation of hosted and managed IP telephony networks, supporting an ever-widening market of large, complex enterprises and service providers.

 

Working closely with Cisco Systems, VisionOSS has already secured its first US customer and has a strong pipeline of both large enterprises and service providers who see the benefits that BVSM provides to the Cisco Hosted/Managed Unified CallManager Services (H/M-UCS) architecture.

 

Paul Brennan, non-executive chairman of VisionOSS, added: "We are honoured to have this investment from Investek. Our EMEA and market momentum has been substantiated by the adoption of our innovative Hosted IP Voice management solution, which manages complex IP Telephony deployments - a requirement of many service providers and large, complex, enterprises. We are also substantially widening the scope of our BVSM solutions and look forward to continuing our success in both the US and global markets."

August 17th - Xelor and VisionOSS Announce Strategic Partnership

SALEM, NH, and READING, BERKSHIRE, , August 17^th 2006 – Xelor Software™ and VisionOSS today announced they have formed a strategic partnership focused on delivering Quality of Service (QoS), configuration and service management solutions to the Voice over IP (VoIP) marketplace.

Xelor Software and VisionOSS are working together to deliver a solution that fully automates the configuration and administration of complex Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony infrastructures.  Under their agreement, the two companies plan to leverage their collective strengths and target the enterprise and service provider market.   

“One of the key issues we hear from customers is the need for an integrated solution for the automation of IP Voice Service configuration and Quality of Service.  This partnership between VisionOSS and Xelor is a clear step to address this market opportunity”, said Mike Frayne, CEO at VisionOSS.

“We are thrilled to be working closely with VisionOSS” said Rob Scott, President and CEO at Xelor Software.  “There are significant commonalities between the solutions provided by our two companies with regards to automating Voice over IP (VoIP) implementations.  By partnering together we will be able to provide solutions that will deliver new and unique capabilities into the Voice over IP (VoIP) market."

As the first proactive solution for resolving voice quality problems commonly associated with IP telephony, XelorRate software lets enterprises easily realize the inherent efficiencies of IP telephony while maintaining quality standards that match or surpass traditional circuit-switched PBX systems and telco networks.  The software proactively controls the enterprise data network to overcome the quality problems that unmanaged packet delay, jitter and latency cause for IP telephony when voice is converged onto the data network.  The software delivers exceptional voice quality without user intervention or complex maintenance procedures.

VisionOSS Business Voice Services Manager (BVSM) is designed to reduce complexity, speed implementation and cut costs of IP telephony installations.  BVSM is a key element in the successful deployment and operation of hosted and managed IP telephony networks, supporting an ever widening market of large, mid-sized and small enterprises.  BVSM does more than promise faster implementation, rapid ROI, and reduced cost and complexity.  It’s delivering those tangible benefits today as an integral part of Cisco Unified Call Manager for hosted or managed environments.

August 21st - VisionOSS Opens First USA Office

VisionOSS opened its first North American office in Santa Clara, California.  This marks a major milestone in VisionOSS' history.

The VisionOSS Santa Clara office details are:

5201 Great American Parkway
Suite 320
Santa Clara, California 95054
United States of America

Phone: +1-408-730-2640
Fax:       +1-408-562-5745

October 16th - VisionOSS Opens Herndon, VA Office in the USA

VisionOSS opened its second North American office near to Washington DC.  This marks a major milestone in VisionOSS' history.

The VisionOSS Washington DC office details are:

12801 Worldgate Drive
Suite 500
Herndon, VA 20170
United States of America

Phone: +1-571-203-7024
Fax:       +1-703-871-3901

November 7th - IP Unity Expanded Partnership

SAN JOSE AND READING  November 7, 2006 -- IP Unity, the leader in carrier-grade media servers, application servers and real-time multimedia applications, and VisionOSS, a leader in VoIP management solutions for hosted Unified Communications platforms, have expanded their strategic partnership for delivery of carrier and enterprise enhanced services and service management.

The companies currently collaborate on the implementation of enterprise services and provisioning with Cisco’s Unified Communications system in hosted and managed environments.

VisionOSS will now serve as a key systems integrator to both carrier and large enterprise telephony accounts worldwide, delivering its Business Voice Services Manager (BVSM) and IP Unity’s media-rich Mereon Unified Messaging and Collaboration features for entities using the Cisco environment.

”We have been highly successful in the joint deployment of our service provisioning management tools and IP Unity’s enhanced services features for business customers. It is a natural outgrowth of our success to now focus on very large network integration opportunities which involve carriers using the Cisco architecture,” stated Mike Frayne, CEO at VisionOSS.

"Our carrier-class features and multiple applications are well-proven in the large operator environments VisionOSS is now addressing", said Dr. Keith Bhatia, Chief Business Officer of IP Unity.  “The VisionOSS integration team is highly skilled within the Business Voice Services management scope, and can apply IP Unity messaging, conferencing and video applications to its hosted and managed IP Telephony expertise for practically any carrier and large enterprise rolling out hosted service delivery. There is great synergy to our working relationship and target opportunities.”

Business Voice Services Manager (BVSM) is designed to reduce complexity, speed implementation and cut costs of large IP telephony installations. BVSM is a key element in the successful deployment and operation of hosted and managed IP telephony networks, supporting an ever widening market of service providers and large enterprises. BVSM does more than promise faster implementation, rapid ROI, and reduced cost and complexity. 

It’s delivering those tangible benefits today supporting the Cisco Unified Communications system for hosted or managed environments.

IP Unity’s Mereon 6000 Media Server, Mereon Application Server and Mereon Unified Messaging capabilities help carriers accelerate profitability, reduce time-to-market for new services and significantly increase ROI. The network-agnostic Mereon architecture lowers risk by balancing Capex/ Opex with revenue generation, supports IP/TDM networks to eliminate capital stranding, and is ideal for converged networks (wireline, wireless, cable/broadband). Mereon solutions give providers comprehensive audio, web, video and collaborative communications and simplify media-rich feature deployment.