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Sipera Systems Adds Two New Vice Presidents to the Executive Team

Richardson, Texas, September 19, 2005 —Sipera Systems is pleased to announce the appointment of Micaela Giuhat and Joseph O’Donnell as the company's Vice President of Product Line Management and Vice President of Sales respectively.

“Micaela and Joe bring the perfect mix of leadership, experience and innovation to Sipera Systems,” said Seshu Madhavapeddy, Sipera’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “They are outstanding leaders of the VoIP & Security industries and come to us with the right complement of skills and experience to take Sipera to the next level.”

Giuhat, who will manage the Sipera product portfolio life cycle, has more than 20 years of industry experience.

Prior to joining Sipera, Giuhat has held executive positions in leading Session Border Controller, VoIP Softswitch and IP Networking companies in the U.S as well as abroad.

“Security is a vital and critical component to the VoIP experience,” said Giuhat. “I joined Sipera because they are at the forefront of developing a comprehensive, proactive approach to this issue. I believe my background and expertise can play a strong role in helping them develop and implement their approach.”

O’Donnell brings 20 plus years of successful selling skills to Sipera and will be leading the global sales effort for Sipera.

Prior to joining Sipera Systems, O’Donnell held executive positions in sales and general management of Enterprise VoIP product lines of Major OEMs and VARs.

"I am very excited about the opportunity to join Sipera," said O’Donnell. "The Sipera team has created a compelling value proposition and I look forward to lending my expertise and sales leadership to make it a market success."

About Sipera Systems:  

Sipera Systems delivers scalable, comprehensive, security systems for protection of session based real-time IP applications such as VoIP, Video & Multimedia in enterprises & carrier networks. Sipera Systems SaVoN ™ family of products deliver comprehensive VoIP security by adapting the best practices of internet security and also going well beyond by using unique, sophisticated techniques such as VoIP protocol misuse & anomaly detection, behavioral learning based anomaly detection and Voice SPAM detection to protect VoIP networks. These new techniques leverage Sipera Systems' deep knowledge of VoIP

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Sipera Systems, the leader in real-time Unified Communications (UC) security, is the choice of enterprises and service providers around the world to support their mission-critical UC deployments.
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