January 15, 2008

Friendly Participates in AudioCodes’ Global Partner Conference in Jerusalem

Friendly Technologies, a global leader in solutions for simplifying deployment and support of the digital home, participated in AudioCodes’ Global Partner Conference, which took place January 15-18, 2008, at the Inbal Hotel in Jerusalem. As an AudioCodes partner, Friendly hosted a booth at the event, and leveraged the opportunity to strengthen its ties with AudioCode’s channel partners.

AudioCodes is a market leader in voice compression technology, providing media gateway and server platforms which function as core gateways or CPE voice gateways in the wireline, wireless, broadband access, and enhanced voice services markets. Customers include leading telecom providers - making AudioCodes an ideal partner for Friendly Technologies.

The event was attended by 220 leading channel and ISV partners - as well as AudioCodes executives. Speakers included major industry figures such as Scott Wharton of Broadsoft and Haim Fried of Google - and several AudioCodes customers presented case studies.

Friendly has been supplying ISPs and Telcos with solutions for non-technical users since 1997, and has over 200 customers worldwide. Focusing on the areas of Home Networking and the Digital Home, the company develops automatic installation and maintenance solutions that enable the seamless delivery of broadband services and the support of triple play devices, while lowering per-subscriber costs and raising per-subscriber profits. Friendly has also established a reputation for its popular PPPoE Clients (MS-Certified) and Automatic Self-Support Solutions (Web-based and Client-based).