Citron and Post Incrementt announce joint agreement

Citron Networks and Post Increment announce joint agreement
to accelerate Open Source H.323 and SIP development

TAIPEI, Taiwan and SYDNEY, Australia (16 February, 2004)

Citron Networks, a leader in value added network communications solutions, and Post Increment, a specialist developer of Open Source VoIP solutions and services, announced today an agreement to collaborate on improving applications and code available from the OpenH323 project.

Under this new agreement, Citron will provide funding to Post Increment for a predefined number of man-hours per month to accelerate development on specific OpenH323 features that are of importance to both companies and to the OpenH323 community. The code changes developed under this agreement will be donated back to the OpenH323 project under the same Open Source license as the existing code.

The scope of the agreement covers not only the existing OpenH323 protocol stack and applications, but also the combined OPAL stack that contains both H.323 and SIP protocol implementations. One of the first tasks to be completed will be support for codec plugins, which will allow for easier addition of new audio and video encoding methods.

"This agreement will help ensure that OpenH323 and OPAL stay at the leading edge of VoIP software development, and it provides an example of how Open Source development can be a cost-effective way for companies to achieve specific business goals", stated Craig Southeren, Post Increment.

"Through our cooperation with Post Increment, Citron Network can keep it's position as a leading company in the VoIP field. This will help to reduce the time to market of our products. The Open Source development also helps to mature VoIP products and enlarges the market for all companies", said Daniel Lee, the CEO of Citron Network Inc.

About Citron Networks

Citron Network Inc. is a leading VoIP solution and service provider in Taiwan and China, with twenty thousand registered users and three million minutes of monthly traffic, and is committed to Open Source development for VoIP. As one of the main developers of the GNU Gatekeeper project, Citron contributed about 90% of source code to GnuGK project, including RAS and signalling subsystem, routing policy engine, neighboring subsystem, authentication module and NAT traversal technology. Please refer to http://www.citron.com.tw/ for more information.

About Post Increment

Post Increment was formed in 2003 by Craig Southeren, one of the founders of the OpenH323 project, to provide specialist consulting and engineering services for VoIP and other advanced Internet technologies. He has more than 20 years experience in such diverse technologies as real-time video, parallel processing, GIS, embedded systems and military projects. For more information, please see http://www.postincrement.com

The OpenH323 project and web site is owned and operated by Quicknet Technologies, Inc. Other products or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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