Psytechnics Receives Unified Communications® Magazine’s 2008 Product of the Year Award

Portsmouth, NH (March 16, 2009) — Psytechnics announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) Unified Communications magazine (uc-mag.com) has named Experience Manager 4.0 as a recipient of its 2008 Product of the Year Award.

Experience Manager is a proven voice performance management solution used in some of the largest IP telephony networks today. Release 4.0 added measurement for user experience of video conferencing applications, and rapid diagnostics for problems in real time. Experience Manager 4.0 also incorporated specific end point calibrations for the most popular conferencing platforms from Polycom and TANDBERG. “Experience Manager 4.0 was developed, in part, to help businesses derive the promised benefits of video conferencing, increased collaboration, reduced travel costs and “greener” carbon footprints,” said Anthony Finbow, CEO. “Service providers and enterprises that deploy Experience Manager 4.0 as part of their voice and video conferencing offering will be confident that the quality of their communications services stays business grade, and operational support costs are contained.”

“Psytechnics has proven they are committed to quality and excellence while addressing real needs in the marketplace. Unified Communications is pleased to grant a 2008 Product of the Year Award to their Experience Manager 4.0,” said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Editor-in-Chief of Unified Communications magazine. We’re proud to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from Psytechnics in the future.”
A full list of Product of the Year winners will be published in the March/April, 2009 issue of Unified Communications magazine, www.uc-mag.com.

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About Psytechnics
Psytechnics is the leader in voice and video performance management solutions, enabling proactive management of end user call quality, as well as operational efficiency for IP Telephony, IP Video Conferencing, and Unified Communications in fixed, mobile and converged environments.

Psytechnics' Experience Manager is a comprehensive solution for voice and video performance management and troubleshooting, providing real time, objective call analysis that details the actual user experience, presenting accurate results for right first time 'find and fix', making more efficient use of support resources and reducing MTTR. Experience Manager focuses on application specific as well as IP transmission characteristics detecting user affecting factors such as noise, delay, distortion and echo that when combined will determine the users experience.

Psytechnics is a member in good standing of the International Telecommunications Union and has contributed significantly to seven ITU-T standards for voice and video assessment.

Psytechnics' solution is extensively validated against the opinions of more than 500,000 people performing subjective tests in the company's own state-of-the art testing facilities.

Psytechnics' voice and video performance management products are deployed worldwide in enterprise, mobile and next-generation networks, supporting PBX, Contact Centre and TDM replacement programs at enterprises and government organizations, either directly or indirectly through managed services providers and strategic outsourcers.

The company was spun out of BT in December 2000 and has offices in Ipswich, U.K. and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA.

About Unified Communications magazine
Launched in July 2007, Unified Communications magazine is devoted to educating enterprise decision makers on why and how they need to deploy unified communications (UC) solutions. Every issue of Unified Communications magazine features a comprehensive news section; case studies of successful deployments and lessons learned; interviews with leading hardware and software companies; and an 'industry' section, featuring analysis of important mergers and acquisition, partnerships and a Wall Street perspective on the unified communications market. Unified Communications has a readership of 100,000. For more information, please visit www.uc-mag.com.

About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is a global integrated media company helping our clients build communities in print, in person and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and NGN Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMCnet is read by two to three million unique visitors each month worldwide, according to Webtrends. Ranked 2,724 by Quantcast, TMCnet is in the top .03% most visited Web sites in the US. In addition, TMC produces ITEXPO, 4GWE Conference, Digium|Asterisk World and Communications Developer Conference.
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Psytechnics Contact:
Liz Swenton
March Communications
liz@marchpr.com
617-960-9858

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

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