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New Brunswick, NJ – October 18, 2004 – Arbinet, the leading electronic marketplace for communications trading, announced today the launch of SoftSwitchAxcess, a managed softswitch service for VoIP carriers looking to expand their businesses and manage growth with minimal capital investment. The service provides carriers with a control center to outsource switching, control routing and securely interwork with most commercially available TDM switches, softswitches, session border controllers and VoIP gateways. It also provides carriers with a secure platform to safeguard their commercial relationships and company information, and manage routes and rates simply with an advanced online interface.

SoftSwitchAxcess features:

• Access to a managed, independent carrier grade softswitch
• Optional access to a carrier grade TDM switch
• Carrier class signaling and protocol conversion: SIP, H323, SS7, C7
• Collocation and high quality IP access
• Unlimited route updates through an on-line system
• Highest security and authentication of partner gateways and traffic flows
• Full interworking with CDR generation and rating

"SoftSwitchAxcess gives VoIP carriers advanced routing and session management capabilities, which can be tied to Arbinet’s real-time trading systems. This lets our customers build and manage route plans tailored to their individual needs," says Steve Heap, Arbinet’s CTO and VP Business Development. "SoftSwitchAxcess gives VoIP carriers a tool from a neutral partner to safely control and grow their businesses as their VoIP interconnections become more complex."

Additionally, SoftSwitchAxcess allows carriers the immediate opportunity to connect and trade on thexchange, and benefit from traffic opportunities generated by more than 335 Member carriers.

About Arbinet

Arbinet is the leading electronic market for trading, routing and settling communications capacity. Members of the exchange, consisting primarily of communications service providers, anonymously buy and sell voice calls and Internet capacity based on route quality and price through its centralized, efficient and liquid marketplace. Members place orders through a web-based interface. Its fully-automated, highly-scalable trading platform matches these orders using proprietary software and delivers them through state-of-the-art facilities. Learn more about Arbinet at www.arbinet.com.

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