New Features for Portico TVA

Citel PLC
10 October 2007





         Citel Announces New Suite of Features for Flagship Portico TVA

        Feature Pack 3 adds Siemens handset interoperability and robust
                          productivity-enhancing tools



Citel, The VoIP Migration Company(TM)(LSE AIM: CITE.L) today announced general
availability of Feature Pack 3 for its award-winning PorticoTelephone VoIP
Adapter (TVATM). Feature Pack 3 introduces several features that will speed
installation and configuration, enhance user productivity and enable more
enterprises to migrate to VoIP using Portico TVA and their existing handsets.

Portico TVA, first introduced in March of 2007, enables enterprises to quickly
and affordably connect digital (PBX), P phone (Centrex) and analog phones to a
hosted or premise-based IP platform, over existing wiring. With Portico TVA,
advanced VoIP features and applications pass through to the existing handsets
or, for features requiring a larger screen, to a browser window. Enterprises
obtain the cost savings and productivity enhancements of VoIP without the
expense, complexity and disruption of a typical "rip and replace" migration
solution.

Feature Pack 3 is the most robust and comprehensive set of features developed
for the Portico TVA since its introduction. It includes:

    *SIP (session initiation protocol) parallel forking enables the
     simultaneous ringing of multiple devices sharing an AOR (address of record),
     whether one user with multiple devices, or multiple users, assigned to one
     AOR.
   
    *The updated Portico Installation and Configuration Tool (PICT) which allows 
     the bulk configuration of discontinuous extension numbers.
   
    *New graphical user interface (GUI) access allows end users to map their own 
     handset buttons, either in a standard configuration or customized to 
     individual preference, before the Portico TVA goes live.

    *Also accessible as part of the end-user GUI, users may select any ringtone 
     for their handset that was available in the legacy PBX environment.
   
    *Compatible Nortel Meridian(R) or Norstar(R) handsets will be auto-detected 
     and default-configured by the TVA.
   
    *Siemens optiset(R) and optiPointhandsets and add-on modules now 
     interoperate with Portico TVA.

All features in Feature Pack 3 are backward compatible, and existing units can 
be updated in the field through Citel's Support Wizard. Feature Pack 3 will be
pre-loaded on all newly manufactured Portico TVA units.

"Portico TVA is revolutionizing VoIP migration by eliminating common enterprise 
objections - migration complexity and expense, disruption and retraining
requirements," said Michael Burke, senior vice president, Citel. "Feature Pack 3, 
with its productivity-enhancing features and Siemens handset interoperability, 
adds tremendous value to enterprises looking for ways to further streamline 
voice network configuration. With this new suite of features, Portico TVA will 
drive even greater enterprise VoIP migration."

Beta customers have been testing Feature Pack 3 for several months, ensuring its 
performance and integrity. Teldisco, Inc., a telecommunications equipment broker
based in the Toronto area, deployed two Portico TVA units with Feature Pack 3 to 
one of its customers, InternetSecure, Inc., early in the beta period.

"We've been very impressed with the performance of the TVA units," said Paul 
Chapman, Teldisco's president. "Our customer, a 60-person credit card processing
center, has been running VoIP with Portico TVA and Nortel handsets since June. 
The Installation and Configuration Tool enabled us to quickly set up the TVA 
units on the network, and the Nortel handset auto-detect feature further 
simplified the configuration process. We'll definitely continue to recommend 
Portico TVA to our customers migrating to VoIP."

The Citel Portico TVA is available with 12 or 24 ports and interoperates with IP 
call control platforms from Asterisk, Avaya, BroadSoft, Cisco, MetaSwitch and
Sylantro. It supports more than 100 handset types including Avaya Definity, 
Ericsson, NEC DTERM, Nortel Meridian(R), Norstar(R), and P phone, Panasonic DBS,
Siemens optiset(R) and optiPointTM, and Toshiba Strata DK.

About Citel plc.

Citel enables SMBs, large enterprises and service providers to realize the cost 
and productivity benefits of IP telephony while at the same time leveraging their
existing PBX infrastructure. Businesses with single or distributed locations and 
PBX vendors can now deploy next-generation IP applications and services at their
own pace, with little business disruption. Service providers can deploy hosted IP 
telephony services quickly, without having to "rip and replace" existing 
enterprise PBX handsets and LAN cabling. Citel is a publicly traded company with 
corporate headquarters in Seattle, and development offices in Calgary, Alberta
(Canada) and Nottingham, England (UK). For more information, visit www.citel.com.


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Copyright 2007, Citel plc. All Rights Reserved. Citel, The VoIP Migration Company, 
Portico, and TVA are trademarks of Citel. All other product and company names m
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