Released on: October 30, 2008, 7:13 am

Press Release Author: Scott Riedel

Industry: Telecommunications

Press Release Summary: LightEdge, the leading hosted services partner dedicated to
the full breadth of communications and IT needs for small and medium-sized
businesses (SMB), today announced a full voice platform upgrade to refresh hardware
and enable new features for business customers by updating the softswitch
application.

Press Release Body: Business VoIP provider upgrades hardware and software platform
to extend feature-set

DES MOINES, IA, October 30, 2008 - LightEdge, the leading hosted services partner
dedicated to the full breadth of communications and IT needs for small and
medium-sized businesses (SMB), today announced a full voice platform upgrade to
refresh hardware and enable new features for business customers by updating the
softswitch application. This infrastructure overhaul will allow LightEdge to
continue growing its voice service customer base and will serve the future of the
company through an inherently scalable engineering design.

"This initiative is really a testament to our commitment to driving service levels
and functionality by implementing cutting-edge technology," Jeff Springborn,
president and COO of LightEdge. "Through the upgrade, our Voice-over-IP customers
will begin to receive valuable new calling features without any additional costs.
Continuous evolution is one of the big advantages of a hosted voice system."

Several new voice features will become available through the initial platform, with
additional features released to customers over the next six months.

# Busy Lamp Field - Displays a call state indicator on the handset for users that
are being monitored.
# Call Forward (Not Reachable) - This is an essential business continuity feature
for automating call forwarding in a crisis situation. If the platform can't connect
with an office because of a line cut, power loss or other outage the call will
automatically be rerouted to a predetermined alternate phone number.
# Diversion Inhibitor - Can be used in conjunction with any Call Forwarding service
to ensure that call goes to voice mail after the appropriate number of rings rather
than continuing to ring an alternate phone.
# Updated Receptionist Console - A new look and feel to the receptionist console
allows front office staff to quickly see the activity state of users on the phone
system to efficiently manage and distribute all incoming calls.
# Updated Advanced Voice Solutions Integrated Toolbar - Allows users to access voice
features from a toolbar within Outlook or Internet Explorer.

"At a time when the benefits of Voice-over-IP are resonating in the market, we are
re-investing in our voice platform to ensure that we continue to have the highest
level of service and leading feature-set available," remarked Mike McHenry, Director
of Product Development for LightEdge. "Our product development team has developed a
great deal of momentum through the past six months and will soon be working to
further integrate voice into our other communications offerings. Competitively,
this puts LightEdge in an enviable position."

The next development milestone for the LightEdge AVS platform is to integrate the
voice platform with the hosted communication and collaboration applications within
the "LightEdge Connected Office" suite. This will allow voice functionality from
within Microsoft Communicator and presence indicators in Exchange, SharePoint and
Communicator. Full integration is expected by Q1 2009.

About LightEdge
LightEdge is the only hosted services partner fully dedicated to the providing a
full breadth of communications and IT services to small and medium-sized businesses
looking for a better way to focus on their core business, not the technology that
supports it. For more information, visit www.lightedge.com.

LightEdge(r), the LightEdge logo and Scale-on-Demand(tm) are trademarks, registered
trademarks, or service marks of LightEdge Solutions, Inc.

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