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Cable Bahamas selected CommuniGate Pro and the Flash based web 2.0 client Pronto! to deliver its value added services (VAS) CoralWave Pronto! to all subscribers immediately.

Mill Valley, 26 January 2009 - CommuniGate Systems, the leader in carrier-class Mobile Unified Communications, today announced that they have successfully deployed another carrier class SaaS delivery solution based upon the high density platform CommuniGate Pro for Cable Bahamas. In this latest customer success story, Cable Bahamas, the leading Internet Service Provider in The Bahamas, has chosen the powerful CommuniGate Pro Unified Communications platform and the Flash based web 2.0 client Pronto! to provide a fully integrated, modular and highly scalable UC solution for its subscribers.

Cable Bahamas branded its new Unified Communications platform "CoralWave Pronto!".  The SaaS offering was launched with a first modular offering, bringing e-mail, instant messaging, VideoMail and calendaring to all its subscribers immediately. CoralWave is already planning a second roll-out of Pronto! modules for Value Added Service in early 2009, including My Stuff, where CoralWave subscribers can create their own personal storage of Rich Media, playback their favorite music and view family photo albums all via the web 2.0 client CoralWave Pronto!.

"This is one of the most dynamic online platforms we’ve seen for Unified Communications and online living," says David Burrows, Director of Marketing "Imagine a world where all the functions you need for online living comes in one seamless, integrated interface. Imagine a world where, when you log in to check your email, you gain automatic access to your photographs, your contacts, your calendar, your music, your video email, and your instant messages while you drag and drop your photographs into your own personal web space and blog about your day, all while listening to your music. This is what our customers will have access to with CoralWave Pronto!  We are very excited to bring this innovation to our subscribers."

"When building a UC as SaaS offering, there are some key criteria to meet: Multi-tenancy, high density, scalability, reliability and a very intuitive web 2.0 client." says Sophia Walker, Director of Information Technology. "CommuniGate Pro and Pronto! met all these critical points and exceeded our core requirements."

"Increasing customer loyalty with value added services is the way Network Operators of tomorrow need to go now", explains Jon R. Doyle, VP Business Development CommuniGate Systems. "Cable Bahamas puts itself in a perfect position to remain the leading provider in the Bahamas by reducing churn rates and placing value on top of it access products."

The complete line of value added services are built upon the CommuniGate Pro Unified Communications platform, the most reliable SaaS delivery platform that delivers virtualization of domains with a modular feature set, powerful class of service provisioning, and a live rolling updates change management capability not found in other solutions. The platform's exclusive Dynamic Clustering architecture provides 99.999% uptime in a multi-tenant architecture with no single point of failure, and allows SaaS providers to add front-end or back-end nodes as needed without any downtime or service interruption. CommuniGate Pro makes it easy for service providers to offer business class services with costs that decline as virtualized client volume increases. CommuniGate Pro is the only truly integrated UC platform that was built to power all forms of IP communications in one integrated platform.

The client user interface CoralWave Pronto! adopted CoralWave’s branding and delivers a single sign-in and interface for all forms of communications, from e-mail to presence, IM, VoIP, Rich Media and Mobility. Pronto! is built with Adobe® Flex® 3, and deployed in the browser with the Adobe Flash® Player and to the desktop with Adobe® AIR™. Pronto! the web 2.0 client unifies all forms of communications together with a framework that allows expansion or new applications to snap into the server or UI as modules. Network operators use this framework to deliver VAS (Value Added Services) for Rich Media Communications and advanced collaboration for Unified Communications in the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. Pronto! allows carriers to build modular services e.g. delivering VideoMail, IPTV or Video on Demand (VOD) to subscribers while offering full featured Mobile Unified Communications to the SME market.

CommuniGate Systems' flash based Web 2.0 client Pronto! including mobility with AirSync to the iPhone and other smartphones can be trialed for free at www.TalktoIP.com.

CoralWave subscribers are encouraged to preview for themselves the exciting features of this feature rich interface at http://www.cablebahamas.com/Pronto/.

About Cable Bahamas
Cable Bahamas Ltd. is majority owned by over 2,000 Bahamians and the Government of The Bahamas. The company’s full time and contracted employees provide world class broadband services on 16 islands, international data communications, web hosting, business continuity and high-speed Internet services in The Bahamas.

About CommuniGate Systems
Founded in 1991 and based in Mill Valley, California, CommuniGate Systems develops carrier-class Unified Communications and media delivery software for broadband and mobile operators to deliver value-added services and SaaS solutions. CommuniGate Systems delivers powerful mashups of Unified Communications technology mixed with media and entertainment applications for portals, social networks, enterprises and mobile communities. CommuniGate Systems is revolutionizing the Unified Communications industry with a unique Flash-based client framework Pronto! bringing together all forms of communication and breaking the leash to the desktop with Web 2.0 mobility.

CommuniGate Systems is the first choice in technology solutions for over 12,000 customers with over 130 million subscribers unifying e-mail, collaboration, IM, presence and VoIP with a single identity. The Unified Communications platform provides flexibility, performance, and scalability with benchmark proven architecture remaining unchallenged in the industry. Our technology powers OEM partner products ranging from embedded real time systems to powerful unified messaging platforms at top tier global network operators. The open development environment's simple APIs deliver extensible flexibility with a unique clustering technology for 99.999% uptime for the most demanding application environments.

The company is a trusted and financially stable vendor, maintaining the highest customer satisfaction levels in the Unified Communications industry with over 175 members in its partner network worldwide.