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Letter from the CEO

As most of you know, I have reassumed the role of CEO at Verso Technologies and am excited about the opportunities we have available here at Verso. In addition, one of our board members, Mark Dunaway, has accepted the position of President and Chief Operating Officer, replacing Monty Bannerman. Mark has the operating capabilities and experience that we need to run our day to day sales. He has over three decades experience in growing and leading telecommunications and industrial companies and has served on the Verso board since 2005. Most of his career has been in the telecommunications sector including 25 years in the wireless sector.

What's New at Verso

Verso Expects At Least $10 Million in Government-Related Business
Two government-related business opportunities are expected from a Defense Access Transport Services (DATS) contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency, or DISA, formerly known as the Defense Communications Agency, as well as the Networx project, a $20 billion U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) project. Both projects involve the installation of next generation communication network equipment for military and non-military government agency sites throughout the United States.

Verso Announces NetSpective™ Remote Agent
As part of Verso Technologies, Inc mission to provide the best of bread content filtering solution and to address the growing security threat introduce by the rapid acceptance of mobile technologies we are announcing the general availability of NetSpective™ Remote Agent as a mechanism of enforcing internet content filtering policies on remote users while outside the organizations secure network infrastructure. The Remote Agent is part of the enhanced features of the NetSpective appliance; therefore, it is licensed by the quantity of remote access users.

Verso Announces Significant Order from China
Verso received a significant additional order from one of China’s largest telecommunications equipment manufacturers that is scheduled for an African deployment. The order is for Verso’s NetPerformer® bandwidth optimization and related products in the amount of $828,000.

Alvarion and Verso Announce Partnership
Alvarion, the world's leading provider of broadband wireless solutions has entered into a reseller agreement with Verso Technologies. Under the agreement, Verso will provide Alvarion customers with the MetroNet VoIP Overlay Solution, a cost effective and certified solution for carrying voice and value added services over WiMAX networks. Alvarion will act as a reseller for the MetroNet VoIP Overlay Solution, positioning it as a value added solution with their existing BreezeMAX™ product line. The joint solution will offer Alvarion’s existing customer base a voice and services revenue generating platform which will target emerging Tier 2 – 4 markets in developing regions around the world.

Verso Launches Carrier InterConnect Solution
The Verso Carrier InterConnect Solution is an integrated media and signaling VoIP gateway supported by the Verso Clarent® softswitch platform, targeting the wholesale and interconnect markets.

The new wholesale offering provides any-to-any voice network connectivity enabling the delivery of SIP services into legacy PRI, CAS and SS7 networks. The solution simplifies and streamlines Class 4 deployments and provides the ability to deploy PSTN to VoIP interconnections by packaging the media gateway, switching, routing, monitoring and reporting elements into a single solution that incrementally scales to meet customer growth and capacity needs.

Verso Adds ASR-based Routing and Alarming and ENUM Support to MetroNet VoIP Overlay and Clarent® Class 4 Solutions
Verso has added two significant capabilities to its MetroNet VoIP Overlay and Class 4 solutions: ASR-based routing and alarming and the Electronic Number Mapping System (ENUM).

ASR-based routing and alarming enables providers to choose the highest quality routes for every call, which results in increased call completion rates, revenues and profits. ENUM is a number mapping method that enhances the convergence of IP networks with the Public Switched Telephony Network (PSTN) by offering the capability to complete calls that are targeted to the legacy TDM network through lower cost IP based infrastructure. This capability results in significant operational and cost savings to Verso’s customers.

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VoIP Service Level Monitoring and the iMarc Solution
By Glenn Jenkins, Director of Product Line Management - Access Products, Verso Technologies
glenn.jenkins@verso.com

The challenge
VoIP deployments are now outpacing traditional voice deployments. The result is a dramatic increase in the number of customers and their networks which are required to support VoIP. Many (if not all) of these networks were architected for data applications which can be tolerant of delay, packet loss, and jitter. VoIP has rigid network requirements for those parameters and any one of them can significantly impact the user’s perceived quality of experience. Voice services have traditionally been very high quality and robust. As a result, users do not expect their voice service to show any degradation or unavailability. The slightest voice degradation will make the user’s quality of experience unsatisfactory. In order to provide service in line with the customer’s expectations, a tool is needed for both pre and post VoIP deployment. This tool, VoIP Service Level Monitoring (VoIP SLM) must have the ability to assess the network’s capability to support VoIP, provide real-time monitoring of jitter, delay, and packet-loss on a per call and site-to-site basis, assist in forecasting potential network problems and help isolate and resolve network problems.