Now Nortel infrastructure users can quickly deploy revenue-driving video telephony services

ATLANTA—February 2, 2006—Glenayre Messaging, a division of Glenayre Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEMS) and a global leader in providing next-generation messaging solutions and enhanced services, today announced it has successfully obtained interoperability, performance and optimization certification with Nortel UMTS wireless systems for its Versera® Video Mail. This certification was achieved using Nortel 3G UMTS Network (UMTS04/NSS18) infrastructure equipment in Nortel’s Wireless Interoperability Labs in Richardson, Texas.

Nortel IOT Certification means carriers using Nortel’s UMTS network infrastructure can look to Glenayre when considering offering circuit-switched video telephony solutions to subscribers. Video telephony offerings such as Versera Video Mail provide carriers with increased subscriber revenue opportunities by terminating unanswered calls.

Glenayre’s Versera Video Mail is available for wireless carriers using Nortel’s 3G networks. Delivered through circuit-switched networks via an open architecture and IP-based technologies, Glenayre’s Versera Video Mail is part of a portfolio of video telephony solutions that run on Glenayre’s next-generation Versera Intelligent Communications Environment (Versera ICE™).

Versera ICE, which obtained interoperability certification in 2004, incorporates an open, standards-based communications platform with a multitude of innovative messaging applications like Versera Video Solutions, Versera MMS and Versera SMS. Using Versera ICE, one of the industry’s only true next-generation messaging solutions, mobile operators can reduce capital expenditures, improve operating margins and deploy multiple applications on a single carrier-grade platform.

For more information about Versera Video Mail and other video telephony applications visit www.glenayremessaging.com or call +1 770 283 1000.

Senior executives from Glenayre will be available for interview at the 3GSM World Congress (Booth: C68, Hall 1).  To meet with Glenayre and trial Versera Video Mail or Glenayre’s other innovative messaging applications, please contact Helen Lyman Smith on +44 (0) 115 948 6901 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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About Glenayre Messaging
Glenayre Messaging, a division of Glenayre Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: GEMS), is a global provider of next-generation messaging solutions and enhanced services for wireless and wireline carriers and MSO/cable companies. Glenayre systems are designed on open platforms with a standards-based architecture that supports IP and traditional telephony networks. Operators around the world have deployed Glenayre messaging solutions including voice mail, video mail, multimedia messaging (MMS), and short message service (SMS). Glenayre Messaging, headquartered in Atlanta, GA, has been providing carrier-grade communications solutions for the global market for over 40 years.  For more information, please visit www.glenayremessaging.com.