Communications Diversified, Inc.

Wave IP 500 wins Unified Communications 2009 Product of the Year Award

Santa Clara, Calif., April 21, 2010–

Vertical Communications, a leading provider of next-generation IPbased phone systems and voice applications announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) has named the Wave IP 500 converged telephony system for branch and small offices as a recipient of its 2009 Unified Communications magazine Product of the Year Award. “Today’s award for exceptional innovation in Unified Communications is validation of the power of Wave IP’s Applications Inside architecture – the ability to deliver high-value voice applications integrated with VoIP telephony as a single system”, said Peter Bailey, President for Vertical Communications.

“Wave IP offers customers a full portfolio of voice applications that can enhance business operations, increase productivity through best practices, and drive savings in operational and management costs. As a fully integrated “on-the-box” solution, these capabilities do not require any additional infrastructure investment and can be deployed and managed through Wave IP’s Global Administrator console.”

The Wave IP Business Communications System is a comprehensive IP business phone system family designed for enterprises of all sizes. Cost-sensitive small- to medium-sized businesses, and larger distributed organizations seeking to reduce overhead associated with managing business communications can easily transform their legacy telephony infrastructure into an application-rich, nextgeneration VoIP solution by deploying Wave IP. As a fully integrated solution, Wave IP offers customers ultimate flexibility and features – unified communications, contact center, call recording, reporting, networking, management, custom call routing applications and IVR – in a single system.

“It is an honor to grant Vertical Communications with a 2009 Product of the Year Award for the Wave IP 500 converged telephony system. Vertical has proven their dedication to quality and excellence while supporting the needs in the marketplace,” said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. “We look forward to seeing continued advancement in technology solutions from Vertical in the future”.

“We have an aggressive product development strategy in place for Wave IP and our approach to Unifying Communications will continue to set the standard in the telephony industry, as part of this strategy we will be releasing a major software update in June that will introduce Mobile Extension, offering the ability to use any device on any network as a PBX extension, an integrated Softphone in our award winning ViewPoint desktop application and secure corporate Instant Messaging”, said Bailey.