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Technologies Inc. Extends Commitment to Asterisk Developer Community
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lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">New Release of PIKA Connect for Asterisk
Supports Asterisk 1.2 and Low Density Analog
Boards<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></STRONG></P>
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lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Ottawa,
Canada –May 16, 2006- </SPAN></STRONG><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">PIKA Technologies Inc. today announced the latest
release of PIKA Connect for Asterisk, further strengthening their commitment to
Asterisk developers, following their previous announcement earlier this
year.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>PIKA Connect for Asterisk
adds support for PIKA low-density analog boards as well as compatibility with
Asterisk 1.2.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">PIKA Connect for Asterisk is a software
layer (channel driver), available free of charge and distributed
under</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">
</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">the GNU Public License
(GPL), which allows interoperability between PIKA low and high-density analog
boards and Asterisk PBX software.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=bodytext style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">“We
are proud to be a traditional CT board vendor who is focused on delivering
hardware and software building blocks for the Asterisk Open Source environment,”
said Terry Atwood, Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Customer Care.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Our strategy is to continuously enhance
the product line so you can expect to see more updates in the coming
months.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=bodytext style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">“With
PIKA Connect for Asterisk, the Asterisk development community can benefit from
advanced features for fax and echo cancellation in low and high density analog
applications. In addition, support for H.100 allows for low latency native
switching between our high density analog boards,” stated Wojciech Tryc,
Enterprise VoIP architect at PIKA Technologies. “This is made possible by PIKA’s
DSP processing power on the board.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Reliability has been proven in the lab and in customer
environments.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Asterisk
developers can be up and running quickly with PIKA Connect for Asterisk and PIKA
hardware.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“For those familiar with
using the Asterisk platform, no additional training is required.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They can take advantage of the PIKA
solution with minimal effort or investment,” said PIKA Technologies’ Wojciech
Tryc.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The latest version of PIKA
Connect for Asterisk will be available by the end of June on the PIKA Developer
Zone.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">For
more information on PIKA Connect for Asterisk, go to <A
href="http://www.pikatechnologies.com/products/asterisk.htm">http://www.pikatechnologies.com/products/asterisk.htm</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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PIKA</SPAN></B><SPAN
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">PIKA Technologies
designs and manufactures computer plug in media processing hardware and software
that connect a computer system to both TDM- and IP-based networks to provide
advanced voice and fax services. For almost two decades PIKA Technologies has
been serving companies around the world that require voice cards to design
sophisticated phone services for recording systems, voice service applications,
fax broadcast and PC-PBX systems. The company has built a reputation for
delivering innovative products and exceptional technical support by working
closely with its customers. Headquartered in Ottawa, ON, Canada, the company has
ranked in The Branham300, an authoritative ranking of successful Canadian high
tech firms, for five consecutive years. Visit <A
href="http://www.pikatechnologies.com/">www.pikatechnologies.com</A> or call
+1-613-591-1555 for more information.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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PIKA Technologies Inc., 2006. PIKA is a registered trademark of PIKA
Technologies Inc. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Miriam
Rautiainen</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN
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of Marketing<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">PIKA
Technologies, Inc.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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