MONTE CARLO, MONACO, February 1, 2005 - LignUp Corporation, a leading provider of Voice over IP (VoIP) applications and infrastructure, has been awarded the DISTREE EuroStart 2005 Award in the Digital Business IT category, and will be honored at this week's DISTREE 2005 conference in Monte Carlo, Monaco. EuroStart is a new annual award for IT technology start-ups, signifying a winner's ability to innovate in either consumer or business IT markets and subsequently market their solutions through distribution channels in the global marketplace.

"Our mantra is from innovation to distribution and LignUp is clearly a start-up that embodies this mantra," said Farouk Hemraj, Director, DISTREE. "Given LignUp's accomplishments bringing value to end customers through an impressive group of channel relationships, we are pleased to recognize LignUp for delivering innovative VoIP solutions that meet the business needs for converged communications."

Working with regional distributors such as Pulver 100 honoree SkyWave, LignUp has assembled a strong track record of delivering value to customers through system integrator partners such as Hitachi Information Technology Company, Net One Systems, NEC System Integration & Construction and NTT-ME. The LignUp platform provides channel partners with the capabilities they need to build strong and profitable VoIP implementation businesses:

Customized Solutions - LignUp's web services architecture allows you to quickly develop custom applications for specific target market and customer requirements.

Differentiated Solutions - Because LignUp solutions are based on open industry standards, you can differentiate your solutions with unique hardware and software combinations as well as with customized applications.

New Revenue Opportunities - DISTREE EuroStart award winners must be start-ups less than four years old with solutions that are innovative in their space. They must also demonstrate products that are oriented towards 3rd party distribution with demonstrated, proven value to channel distributors. DISTREE judges evaluate the degree of market penetration, quality of customers, the comprehensiveness of the customer implementations, and the portfolio of reseller and distributor partners.

"We are honored to receive this year's inaugural 2005 EuroStart Award and to represent the VoIP communications opportunity at this week's DISTREE conference in Monte Carlo," said Kevin Nethercott, President and COO, LignUp Corporation. "This industry recognition reinforces the enthusiasm we have experienced among our channel and technology partners in Asia and, most importantly, the successes we have enjoyed among our growing list of customers. We look forward to continuing to provide the SIP-based VoIP solutions enterprises and service providers need to realize the benefits of the converged communications."

About DISTREE
DISTREE EVENTS (www.distree.com) is a French-based company specialized in organizing high-level business events to cover the channel in the Emerging Markets in EMEA region. All our events are based on bringing high-level buyers from hard-to-reach markets into productive contact with vital IT solutions vendors.

Today DISTREE Event offers a portfolio of seven events to cover the channel business in the emerging regions of EMEA:

- DISTREE CEE and DISTREE MEA: addresses the key distributors in more than 50 countries in Eastern Europe, CIS, Middle East and Africa

- Digital Consumer Channel (DCC): gathers the leading IT and Digital Retailers in CIS, Central Europe, Middle East and North Africa.

- Digital Business Channel (DBC): focuses on the Corporate channel (VARs, SI, Corporate Resellers, Solution Providers) from CIS and Sub Saharan Africa.

About LignUp
LignUp Corporation is a leading provider of 100% software, SIP-based Voice Applications and Infrastructure for enterprises and service providers. The LignUp Applications Portfolio includes SIP IP-PBX, SIP IP-Centrex, Voice Mail, Unified Messaging, and IVR applications developed on the LignUp Communications Platform, an all-software, standards-based, web services-enabled platform. This platform facilitates the cost-effective development and flexible deployment of multiple voice and voice enabled business applications. With LignUp Applications Portfolio and LignUp Communications Platform, system integrators, network integrators and service providers can quickly assembled differentiated, cost competitive solutions for enterprise customers. LignUp is based in Silicon Valley, California and has offices in Salt Lake City, Shanghai, and Tokyo. More information on LignUp can be found at www.LignUp.com

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