Press Release

Empirix Remains the Service Quality Assurance Leader for Enterprise Organizations, Service Providers and Network Equipment Manufacturers Around the World

Bedford, MA––June 3, 2009––Empirix Inc., the market leader of service quality assurance solutions for new IP communications, today announced a period of remarkable growth. Empirix extended their global reach and is continuing their momentum by signing additional new customers and partners, launching multiple product offerings, having received numerous industry awards and expanding the company's management team. The company's growth, innovation and continued leadership positions Empirix to thrive in the evolving service quality assurance market in the coming year.

"Despite the challenging economic times, Empirix continues to gain market share in the competitive quality assurance market. Our customers realize that a small investment in Empirix enables them to offer improved services to end-users, which positively affects their bottom line," said John D'Anna, president and CEO, Empirix. "Over the past year, we have made significant inroads into the European and Latin American markets, as well as North America, and built our position as the leader in the network testing and monitoring space. We recently expanded our management team to place a strong focus on the unique issues faced by our enterprise, service provider and network equipment manufacturer customers. Empirix is committed to providing the most comprehensive and reliable service quality assurance solutions and to continue this momentum in the coming year."

Company Milestones

Empirix reached several significant milestones that further extend the company's leadership in the market. These include:

New Products: Empirix introduced a number of products––all relying on the patented Empirix Hammer technology.

• Empirix unveiled Hammer Edge™, which emulates the realistic behavior of users and devices required to test elements at the network edge, including border controllers, firewalls and deep packet inspection devices, as well as security and application level gateways––in both secure and unsecure network topologies. Based on patent-pending RUB/E™ technology, Hammer Edge gives customers the ability to test complex IP architectures, including voice, data and video, across the network.
• Empirix upgraded Hammer G5™ to include video quality scoring and metrics, SIP I/T protocol support, expanded G5 load test capacity to 32K endpoints for SIP signaling-only scenarios and expanded feature test capacity to 500 endpoints.

Customers and Strategic Partners: Empirix's customer and partner base increased over the last year to now include:

• Ditech Networks—Ditech Networks selected Empirix's Hammer test solution to verify Voice-over-IP (VoIP) capabilities of the Ditech Networks' Packet Voice Processor (PVP).
• Sonus Networks—Sonus Networks selected Hammer Edge to easily emulate realistic scenarios with limited time and resources by using a multiservice testing tool.
• Unitymedia—Based in Germany, Unitymedia is the second largest German provider of media and communication services via broadband and triple play services. Unitymedia selected Hammer XMS™ to monitor its VoIP network ensuring the highest quality telephony service to its residential and business customers.
• Manx Telecom—Manx Telecom selected Empirix's Hammer XMS system to provide service quality assurance for its new IMS network.
• Rep Channel Management (RCM) Partnership—Empirix partnered with RCM, a provider of outsourced sales channel support, to extend Empirix's own direct sales force by selling the company's Hammer Technology Service Assurance and Lab Solutions to service providers and network equipment manufacturers in North America.  RCM founder Larry Albertson brings 30+ years of experience working with the world's largest service providers and network equipment manufacturers to help grow Empirix's channel team in North America.
• Empirix also joined ECTA (the European Competitive Telecommunications Association) to help operators better understand and address the challenges of service quality assurance in order to meet both regulatory requirements and their own service standards.

Management Team Expansion: Empirix appointed Fred Sammartino as vice president of marketing and product management for the company's Service Assurance business unit, which is focused on meeting the quality assurance needs of service providers. In this role, Sammartino will assist in extending the global reach of the business unit.

Timothy Moynihan was appointed as vice president of marketing for the Contact Center Solutions business unit, which is focused on providing contact center assurance solutions for enterprise customers.  In this role, he will be responsible for strategic business planning and product revenue growth strategies. Together, Sammartino and Moynihan bring a wealth of industry experience to the Empirix management team that will enable the company to continue to achieve strategic goals.

Bob Eaton was named the director of international business development, responsible for increasing Empirix's global reach in CALA, Australia, Asia and India. Empirix has also expanded into the Latin American market by opening an office and hiring Manfred Steube and Christian Steube to manage the territory.

Industry Recognition: Empirix was the recipient of a number of awards, providing further proof of the company's innovative technology and service quality assurance solutions. Industry awards include:

• CIS Magazine's 2008 Product of the Year Award
• Frost & Sullivan's 2009 Global VoIP Test & Monitoring Equipment Market Leadership of the Year Award
• TMCnet's 2009 NGN Leadership Award for Empirix's Hammer G5
• Everything Channel's 2009 var500, North America's Top 500 Technology Integrators
• TMCnet's Customer Interaction Solutions 2009 Lab Innovation Award for Empirix's Hammer Edge.

About Empirix
Empirix is the global market leader of service quality assurance solutions for new IP networks and applications that unify communications. The majority of the world's leading Network Equipment Manufacturers, Service Providers and Fortune 100 companies depend on Empirix solutions to help them adopt new communications technologies with the quality and dependability their users require. Since 1992, Empirix's Hammer-based service quality assurance solutions have helped Network Equipment Manufacturers, Network Service Providers and Enterprise Contact Centers successfully transition to new technologies including Unified Communications, IP Contact Centers, VoIP, NGN and IMS-based networks. To learn more about the company, visit http://www.empirix.com/.

Empirix and Hammer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Empirix Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.