NEC Unified Solutions Receives a 2007 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award

IRVING, TX, October 2, 2007 – NEC Unified Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of VoIP and data communications, today announced that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) has named NEC’s UNIVERGE® SV7000 enterprise communications platform as a recipient of a 2007 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award presented by INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine (www.itmag.com).

NEC’s UNIVERGE SV7000 is a multi-purpose, feature rich IP telephony server that can be configured as a standalone or networked small, medium or large enterprise communications system, a media converter/gateway or a survivable remote media gateway/controller.

“NEC’s UNIVERGE SV7000 is an innovative mid-to-large enterprise communications solution that allows businesses to offer today’s most advanced IP-based services while reducing expenses,” said Paul Lopez, general manager, marketing and services for NEC Unified Solutions. “We are pleased to receive a product of the year award from INTERNET TELEPHONY and will continue to develop solutions aimed at helping our customers enhance productivity and improve communications while reducing operating costs.”

“We are proud to present NEC with a 2007 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award. UNIVERGE SV7000 has proven its outstanding contribution to IP communications and delivered winning solutions for its customers,” indicated Rich Tehrani, Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

“Taking risks to advance VoIP technology and provide real solutions has earned NEC recognition from the editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY and an INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award. UNIVERGE SV7000 has excelled in delivering solutions and its customers are extremely pleased and have offered their testaments of support,” said Greg Galitzine, Editorial Director of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

The 2007 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award winners has been published in the October 2007 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONYmagazine, www.itmag.com.

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

About NEC Unified Solutions, Inc.
NEC Unified Solutions Inc., a global leader in VoIP and data communications for the enterprise and small-medium business, delivers the industry’s most innovative suite of products, applications and services that help customers achieve business value through technology. NEC Unified Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation of America, offers a complete portfolio of solutions for wireless, unified communications, voice, data and management services, and an open migration path to protect investments. NEC Unified Solutions, Inc. serves Fortune 1000 customers across the globe in vertical markets such as hospitality, education, government and healthcare. For more information, visit www.necunified.com.

About INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine
INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP Authority since 1998™. Since 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 has a circulation of 225,000 including passalong readers. For more information please visit www.itmag.com.

About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes Customer Inter@ction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 5,200 most visited Web sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves three million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, and Call Center 2.0 Conference and Green Technology World Conference. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.) For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.