PORTLAND, Ore., June 15, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- VoIPLabs Holdings Inc. (Pink Sheets:VPBH) announced today that it has acquired a controlling interest in POPstar Communications Corp. (Pink Sheets:POPS) in a Definitive Agreement signed on June 3, 2005.
POPstar Communications Corp. was founded by John McDermott and Thompson Chu in 1998 to develop highly functional, enterprise-wide Fax over Internet Protocol ("FoIP") and Voice over Internet Protocol ("VoIP") products to be marketed to Application Service Providers ("ASP") and Corporate enterprise-wide distribution networks. The Company's products run robustly on Sun and Linux platforms and are fully compatible with Cisco gateways, supporting both H323 and SIP standards for the vast global VoIP network. Satisfied customers over the years have included several Fortune 500 corporation's, international banking, brokerage and financial institutions and some major U.S. Companies. The Company continues to service several hundred customers.
Edward Gallagher has been recruited to serve as Chief Executive Officer of PopStar and a board advisor to VPBH.
The financial terms are confidential. Both Companies are debt free.
About POP Star Communications
POPstar Communications, Inc. offers a full suite of VoIP and FoIP communication services for residential and business customers. POPstar's proprietary product range namely Enroute, provides a quick-start, low-entry cost messaging and communications server system ranging from email and two-way desktop faxing to UM/UC and VoIP. Enroute can be mixed and matched, and gracefully integrated into new or existing IP gateways, billing systems, and other server infrastructures.
A short summary of the Company's products and revenue drivers appears below.
http://www.pop-star.net/pdf_files/Enroute_product%20suite.pdf
Fax Over IP solutions (FoIP)
Enroute EFG uses existing "sendmail" server functions at the enterprise or the service provider's location; optional legacy (Lotus, ATTMail etc.) email-SMTP compatibility is also available. Microsoft(tm) Office and many other word processing, spreadsheet, text, and image files can be quickly sent as attachments to any email client, using existing email programs, for delivery to any fax machine.
As with other Enroute Fax solutions, documents submitted through Enroute EFG use the global Internet for transport, with "in-country" delivery to the destination via the PSTN. Least Cost Routing, Call Detail Recording and Reporting, and 24/7 network monitoring and reporting are provided through POPstar's FoIP/VoIP Clearinghouse.
Customer benefits include: zero-maintenance, flawless compatibility, security and privacy, delivery notification, accounting, cost allocation, and control, simple and efficient outbound faxing,
More information: www.pop-star.net/pdf_files/Enroute_EFG.pdf
Voice over IP solutions (VoIP)
People Line (www.peopleline.net/pstelco/overview.htm) offered via POPstar Communications based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada offers low-cost, reliable and alternate telephone and fax services to residential and business users in the Vancouver area.
Email Solution
Enroute Mail product is a high-capacity, open standard server "engine." It supports popular mail server features in a clustered, highly scalable, and easy to maintain package. Enroute Mail's robust IMAP4 core also supports webmail and POP3 mail; sendmail functions are handled by the field-proven EXIM SMTP engine. Subscriber information is maintained in an LDAP directory structure, supplemented by a relational database for flexibility and performance. For enterprise/outsourced customers, Enroute Mail offers multi-tiered, domain-restricted administration capabilities, allowing enterprise subscriber management if desired.
http://www.pop-star.net/pdf_files/Enroute_Mail.pdf
Unified Messaging ("UM")
Enroute UM is a highly scalable and flexible communications platform providing a rich family of communications and messaging solutions, built on a carrier-class Sun/Solaris foundation.
Enroute UM is a rich family of IP communication and messaging products that includes:
-- Centralized, unified message storage
-- Unified service administration within LDAP.
-- Unified user service administration.
-- High-capacity, outsource-able email services.
-- Robust, high-throughput fax services, including billing
support for outgoing traffic.
-- Integrated email, telephony and IP message entry and
access.
-- Global routing and inter-carrier OSP clearinghouse and
revenue sharing.
-- Support for optional prepay/post pay, real-time billing
and accounting.
-- Easy integration with popular VoIP gateways, billing systems
and other infrastructure.
Fully modular in design, Enroute UM can be configured to support any single, or any combination of Enroute messaging and communications applications.
At the core of Enroute UM is an LDAP-based user/policy database defining user services for each subscriber, as well as domain-specific services and access for outsourced applications; this core is common to, and provides linkages between, all of the subscriber and system-oriented services and features available within the UM platform.
Web-based access to Enroute's LDAP directory is available to system administrators, Enterprise administrators and to individual users.
UM's architecture combines the scalability and efficiency of Solaris' multi-threaded operation with carefully partitioned functional blocks of platform services, for a near-ideal combination of flexibility, growth and support for new applications as they emerge in the fast-moving IP communications marketplace.
This architecture allows service-providers to gracefully introduce individual services and features at their own pace (and in line with their own budgets), without having to risk a dead-end at some point in the growth of their business.
http://www.pop-star.net/pdf_files/PS_unifiedmessaging_platform.pdf
Clearinghouse
The POPstar Clearinghouse is a mechanism that enables a network of independent POPstar partners to exchange and settle global VoIP/FoIP traffic. The Clearinghouse reduces service providers' dependence on Tier 1-2 carriers. It eliminates the need to negotiate multiple bilateral agreements or make upfront financial commitments in order to secure favorable routes and rates.
By enrolling in the Clearinghouse, partners can potentially increase their margins, extend the reach of their VoIP/FoIP connectivity, and derive ongoing revenue through the termination of other partners' traffic.
The Clearinghouse authorizes, routes, and rates each call between originating and terminating Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and Fax-over-IP (FoIP) gateways, thereby allowing end-to-end operation, transfer, and mediation of VoIP and FoIP calls over the public Internet.
The Clearinghouse is not a carrier or wholesaler of long distance minutes. It is a mechanism that enables members to exchange traffic and complete a transaction between an Originating Gateway (OGW) and Terminating Gateway (TGW). The Clearinghouse takes care of the administrative functions to complete these transactions
By leveraging the power of POPstar's global network, and existing infrastructure, members can also avoid the expense of co-locating servers at remote locations, or building managed private IP networks.
http://www.pop-star.net/pdf_files/POPstar_Clearinghouse.pdf
About VOIPLabs Holdings Inc.
VoIP Labs Holdings., Inc. (VPBH) is the parent holding company for a growing portfolio of international business acquisitions that share VoIP, FoIP and other related disruptive communication technologies.
Forward Looking Statement
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