Date: 14/05/2010

Veraz and Dialogic agree to merge

Veraz Networks and Dialogic have entered into a definitive agreement to merge. The name of merged business is agreed to be Dialogic. The merged company is expected to be led by Nick Jensen as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (current Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Dialogic), and Doug Sabella as President and Chief Operating Officer (current Veraz President and Chief Executive Officer), with headquarters in San Jose, CA.

"While the capability of mobile networks around the world has been steadily expanding, the future will bring even greater demands on the networks due to the unprecedented growth in global mobile data and video traffic," said Nick Jensen, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Dialogic. "By combining Dialogic's proven expertise in application enablement for voice and video with Veraz's leadership in voice, data, session control, security, and transport, we will be creating a company with innovative products that will enable our customers to unleash the profit of video, voice and data for 3G/4G networks."

Dialogic expertise is in enabling high quality video on wireless and wireline networks and over 130 service providers in over 80 countries use Veraz's switching and bandwidth optimization products.

"The merger of Veraz and Dialogic will create a new and exciting company with the product portfolio and resources to be a true mission critical supplier to service providers," said Doug Sabella, President and CEO of Veraz Networks. "The combination of Veraz's direct global footprint and Dialogic's channels will create a company of substantial size with global reach and resources, thus allowing our customers to be extremely confident when they choose to partner with us."