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NEI Receives Prestigious Internet Telephony Product of the Year Award

DC-Powered Data Center Servers Recognized for Outstanding Innovation and Quality

CANTON, Mass, Dec 19, 2012 - NEI, a leading provider of application platforms and lifecycle support services for software developers, OEMs and service providers worldwide, announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC®) INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has named the company's D-Series of direct current (DC)-powered servers as recipient of its 2012 Product of the Year Award.
NEI's D-Series includes the D-1000 and D-2000 380V DC rack mount servers developed expressly for next-generation, energy-efficient data center applications. They use advanced Intel® Xeon® Dual Socket CPUs to deliver the highest possible performance to DC-powered data centers. Applications requiring up to four enterprise-class disk drives can benefit from Intel's Xeon technology with support for dual
8-core processors and up to 384GB of SDRAM. This combination allows NEI and its customers to build performance and power-optimized data center solutions.
"The D-Series is an ideal platform for ISVs and OEMs that want to leverage renewable and sustainable energy sources and market "green" co-location and data center solutions," said Jeff Hudgins, vice president of marketing, NEI. "We are pleased to be recognized by TMC for our platform expertise, technical excellence, and commitment to developing energy-efficient IT server platforms."
"INTERNET TELEPHONY is proud to grant NEI a 2012 Product of the Year Award for its D-Series servers in recognition of world-class product design and integration capabilities," said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. "We look forward to seeing more innovative solutions from the company in the future."
A complete list of Product of the Year winners will be published in the January/February 2013 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

About NEI

NEI, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Unicom® Global, is a leading provider of server-based application platforms and lifecycle support services for software developers and OEMs worldwide. Through its expertise and comprehensive suite of solution design, system integration, application management, global logistics, support, and maintenance services, NEI is redefining application deployment solutions to provide customers with a sustainable competitive advantage. More than a decade of appliance innovation with the ability to provide physical, virtual and cloud-ready solutions makes NEI one of the most trusted software deployment partners in the industry. Founded in 1997, NEI is headquartered in Canton, Massachusetts, with facilities in Plano, Texas and Galway, Ireland. For more information, visit www.nei.com .

About INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine

INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the IP Communications Authority since 1998™. Beginning with the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been providing unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine reaches more than 225,000 readers, including pass-along readers. For more information, please visit http://www.itmag.com/ .

About TMC

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is a global integrated media company helping our clients build communities in print, in person and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and NGN magazines. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMCnet is read by two million unique

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visitors each month on average worldwide, according to Webtrends. TMCnet has ranked within the top 3,500 in Quantcast's Top U.S. sites, placing TMCnet in the nation's top .03% most visited Web sites. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO (ITEXPO);
4GWE Conference and M2M Evolution (in conjunction with Crossfire Media); Digium|Asterisk World (in conjunction with Digium); and Smart Grid
Summit (in conjunction with Intelligent Communication Partners). For more information about TMC, visit http://tmcnet.com/ .

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