San Francisco, CA, and Vancouver, Canada - June 11^th, 2002 - Indigo Software, a leader in real-time communications software development based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), and Convedia Corporation, a leading provider of multi-protocol media servers, announced today they have entered into a partnership that will deliver to service providers and enterprises the ability to make use of presence information in multimedia collaborative applications.

Under the terms of the partnership agreement, Indigo and Convedia are working closely to ensure seamless support of Convedia's CMS-1000 and CMS-6000 Media Servers by the Indigo Presence Server SDK^TM. Indigo's Java presence software toolkits and Convedia's SIP enabled media servers will be combined in order to support presence-based conferencing applications never before possible. One key feature of the united offerings will be automatic conference set-up as soon as all desired participants are available, as denoted by their "presence status". This is facilitated by a unique management of users' context information - online status, availability to communicate, media capabilities, etc. - achieved by the Indigo presence server along with the Indigo SIP proxy server.

"Our support for prominent media servers such as the Convedia CMS-1000 and CMS-6000 underscores the value Indigo products bring to the market," said Edward Keegan, Head of Business Development EMEA, Indigo Software. "The combination of Indigo's applications and Convedia's media processing platform is a winning combination for developers of leading edge services."

"Service providers and large enterprises must be able to combine best in class components from multiple vendors quickly and seamlessly if they are to take advantage of the power offered by next generation networks", said Grant Henderson, co-founder and EVP Marketing & Strategy, Convedia. "The Indigo/Convedia partnership delivers an integrated, fully tested solution that increases functionality, promote new enhanced services, and offers presence-enabled conferencing at a reasonable price."

For further information, please contact :

Geneviève Materne Head of Public Relations Indigo Software, Inc. +32 2 235 0957 genevieve@indigosw.com

Grant Henderson Executive VP - Marketing & Strategy Convedia Corporation +1 604 918 6309 ghenderson@convedia.com

About Indigo Software

With operations in both the US and Europe, Indigo Software is a forward-thinking software developer, architecting new Internet communications software toolkits for a broad range of application developers, integrators and communications ASPs. Capitalizing on its award-winning, expandable communications software framework, Indigo provides a unique ensemble of Internet-infrastructure software components based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and other Internet-genuine technologies sharing SIP's endowments. Devising unprecedented communications software tools for converged networks, Indigo gives an ever-expanding service providers market the power to transform the experience of integrated communications for a generation of customers with Internet savvy. For more information, visit www.indigosw.com

About Convedia Corporation Convedia Corporation is a leading supplier of next-generation, softswitch-compliant media servers that enable communication service providers to rapidly deliver innovative and differentiated voice and video services over Internet Protocol (IP) networks. Convedia's family of products includes the CMS-6000 Media Server, a carrier class media server capable of scaling to 18,000 ports per shelf, and the CMS-1000 Media Server, a low-cost, entry-level media server. Convedia is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and financed by leading venture capitalists. For additional information about Convedia, its products or the role of media servers in Softswitch, PacketCable or next-generation wireless architectures, visit www.convedia.com.

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