AUDIOCODES AND KINETO WIRELESS ANNOUNCE INTEROPERABILITY AND MULTIPLE UMA TRIALS WITH MAJOR OPERATORS

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Lod, Israel & Milpitas, Calif.
March 28, 2006

Collaboration Produces Best-of-Breed UMA Network Controller for Mobile/Wi-Fi Convergence

AudioCodes (NASDAQ: AUDC), a leading provider of Voice over Packet (VoP) technologies and Voice Network products, and Kineto Wireless, Inc., the key innovator and a leading supplier of Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) technology, today announced they have successfully completed interoperability testing between AudioCodes’ MediantTM media gateways and Kineto Wireless’ IP-based UMA Network Controller (IP-UNC). In addition, the companies announced their deployment of these products as part of ongoing fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) trials with several major European operators.

“As the market demand for mobile/Wi-Fi convergence solutions grows, Kineto is dedicated to partnering with organizations like AudioCodes to deliver best-of-breed UMA solutions that provide consistent voice quality with PSTN-like reliability,” said Tom Elam, vice president of product management for Kineto Wireless. “With our extensive experience in worldwide FMC trials, we have a thorough understanding of what operators need for widescale deployments. We work with our partners to deliver elegant technology solutions that will continue to drive the worldwide adoption of UMA in 2006.”

“AudioCodes’ UMA-compliant media gateway products provide superior voice quality and bandwidth optimization mechanisms for a more efficient deployment and a better user experience,” said Rich Poole, Director of the Media Gateway Business Line at AudioCodes. “The combination of AudioCodes’ media gateways and Kineto’s IP-UNC provides GSM operators with a compact, powerful UMA fixed mobile converged solution that is easy to deploy into existing networks.”

AudioCodes’ Mediant media gateways combined with Kineto’s IP-UNC provide mobile and integrated operators with a UMA-based FMC solution that delivers superior voice quality for increased customer satisfaction. This joint solution was validated by AudioCodes and Kineto to meet the demand from operators to deliver UMA-based FMC services to their customers.

The core component of Kineto’s mobile/Wi-Fi convergence solution is its IP-UNC, a carrier-class network element that integrates with a service provider’s existing voice (MSC) and data (SGSN) switching systems and uses standard interfaces to extend high-performance mobile services over IP access networks and WLANs. The Kineto IP-UNC manages and secures all subscriber access to mobile, voice, data and IMS services from various WLAN locations, and facilitates automatic seamless roaming and handover between licensed radio access networks and WLANs.

AudioCodes’ Mediant media gateways interconnect the VoIP traffic received over IP from the cellular/WiFi-enabled handsets to existing GSM MSCs using standards-based signaling and control. The AudioCodes gateway can also support GSM, UMTS and/or IMS networks, providing additional utility for operators as they evolve their networks over time.

The Mediant 8000, 5000 and 3000 media gateways make up the AudioCodes’ family of market-ready, standardscompliant converged media gateway products designed for the wireless, wireline and cable-carrier environments. The media gateways are able to scale up and scale down, providing customers a common solution to costeffectively address the varying requirements of network deployments.

About Kineto Wireless
Kineto Wireless is the key innovator and leading supplier of Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) Technology, the 3GPP
standard for Mobile/Wi-Fi convergence. With a UMA-enabled network, mobile operators can provide a seamless, high-performance mobile voice, data, and IMS experience on both cellular and Wi-Fi networks. As the leading provider of UMA Technology, Kineto supplies core network solutions through OEM partnerships with major network infra-structure providers. Kineto also provides UMA-compliant software, development tools, and support services to mobile silicon/stack suppliers, mobile handset developers, and broadband terminal adapter/wireless access point vendors. For more information, please visit www.kineto.com.

About AudioCodes
AudioCodes Ltd. (NASDAQ: AUDC) enables the new voice infrastructure by providing innovative, reliable and cost-effective Voice over Packet technology and Voice Network products to OEMs, network equipment providers and system integrators. AudioCodes provides its customers and partners with a diverse range of flexible, comprehensive media gateway and media processing technologies, based on VoIPerfectTM – AudioCodes’ underlying, best-of-breed, core media gateway architecture. The company is a market leader in voice compression technology and is a key originator of the ITU G.723.1 standard for the emerging Voice over IP market. AudioCodes voice network products feature media gateway and media server platforms for packet-based applications in the converged, wireline, wireless, broadband access, and enhanced voice services markets. AudioCodes enabling technology products include VoIP and CTI communication boards, VoIP media gateway processors and modules, and CPE devices. Its customers include the leading telecom and data network equipment providers globally. AudioCodes’ headquarters and R&D facilities are located in Israel with an R&D extension in the U.S. Other AudioCodes’ offices are located in Europe, the Far East, and Latin America. For more information on AudioCodes, visit www.audiocodes.com.

Statements concerning AudioCodes’ business outlook or future economic performance; product introductions and plans and objectives related thereto; and statements concerning assumptions made or expectations as to any future events, conditions, performance or other matters, are “forward-looking statements’’ as that term is defined under U.S. Federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements are subject to various risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated in such statements. These risks, uncertainties and factors include, but are not limited to: the effect of global economic conditions in general and conditions in AudioCodes’ industry and target markets in particular; shifts in supply and demand; market acceptance of new products and continuing products’ demand; the impact of competitive products and pricing on AudioCodes’ and its customers’ products and markets; timely product and technology development/upgrades and the ability to manage changes in market conditions as needed; and other factors detailed in AudioCodes’ filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. AudioCodes assumes no obligation to update the information in this release.

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