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Kayote Networks Expands Market Reach for its Hosted VoIP Traffic Manager with Switch and Data PAIX VoIP Exchange

PASSAIC, N.J. - Oct. 31, 2007 - Kayote Networks Inc., the leading provider of hosted Voice over IP (VoIP) interconnectivity solutions, today announced it has joined the Switch and Data (NASDAQ: SDXC) PAIX® VoIP Exchange in New York to expand the market reach of it's VoIP Traffic Manager (VTM). Kayote provides a hosted VoIP back office solution for service providers that allows a customer to manage its routing table, network and route performance, and customer billing with a secure, online application.

Kayote's VTM solution allows a carrier of any size - cable operator, Internet Telephony Service Provider (ITSP) or enterprise - to offer its customers the most advanced VoIP services available and maintain full control of its network, without having to deploy or maintain a costly VoIP network. Kayote Network's VTM monitors the SIP signaling between its customer's network and the networks of its vendors and end user customers to generate call detail records (CDRs). Kayote integrates this CDR data with a hosted back office management platform to allow a customer to securely manage all its VoIP traffic from a single web-based interface. Kayote can now provide its solution to the ecosystem of customers in Switch and Data's New York PAIX VoIP Exchange because the VoIP Exchange gives it a simple, high quality way to access customers' SIP signaling feeds and generate CDRs.

"As carriers seek the strategic advantages of outsourcing VoIP interconnectivity and peering and look to incorporate expert third party service providers as part of their Next Generation Networking strategies, the importance of a solution spanning from access to application is crucial," said Dr. Baruch Sterman, founder and CEO of Kayote Networks.

"Offerings currently available either focus on hardware infrastructure to ensure Quality of Service, or on VoIP and billing applications to provide interoperability, routing, and other features. Carriers and ITSPs are now able to simply connect to Kayote's hosted VoIP Traffic Manager via existing or new PAIX peering ports."

Switch and Data, a leading provider of Internet exchange and colocation services, operates the PAIX VoIP Exchange to provide a simple way for its customers to exchange real-time VoIP traffic between numerous and diverse networks in an IP end to-end environment. The PAIX VoIP Exchange in New York is available to more than 300 networks located in Switch and Data's 111 8th Avenue and 60 Hudson St. sites. "Kayote Networks is a valuable addition to the Switch and Data VoIP marketplace," said Ernie Sampera, chief marketing officer, Switch and Data. "Service providers can now come to one place to solve the mission-critical peering and back office components of VoIP service implementation. Together Kayote and Switch and Data provide VoIP Service providers with a high-quality, integrated solution to ease their migration from legacy systems to VoIP."

Noted VoIP industry authority Jeff Pulver remarked on this announcement, "The collaboration between service providers and neutral infrastructure suppliers is a natural development within the industry where some carriers are concerned about the QoS that solutions based on the public Internet can achieve. This collaboration will help VoIP develop at the carrier level to provide reliable quality and enhanced features."

Kayote Networks

Kayote Networks is a leading provider of VoIP products and managed network services that automatically resolve the complex challenges of interconnectivity, interoperability, security, routing and peering. Kayote enables VoIP providers to outsource their entire VoIP back-end and benefit from valuable, hassle-free maintenance and significant cost savings, while maintaining complete control over business decisions and benefits of VoIP services. Its hosted VoIP Traffic Manager (VTM) provides carriers, ITSPs and enterprises of all sizes the most cost-effective solution for rapid deployment of an entire VoIP operation, at minimum risk and investment. For more information, visit www.kayote.com.

About Switch and Data and PAIX VoIP Exchange

Switch and Data is a leading provider of Internet exchange and colocation services. Based in Tampa, Florida, Switch and Data operates one of the largest footprints of neutral Internet exchange and colocation facilities in North America serving more than 870 customers. Switch and Data's PAIX® is recognized worldwide as the premier name in peering and Internet exchange services and is home to one of the largest commercial exchange points in North America. For more information, please visit www.switchanddata.com.

Switch and Data's PAIX VoIP Exchange is a unique and dedicated VLAN peering fabric for the exchange of real-time voice traffic across numerous and diverse networks. This VoIP ecosystem delivers cost efficiencies, higher quality of service, new roads to revenue, increased speed to market through geographic reach, and a faster return on investment. Providers of VoIP services, companies offering services to VoIP providers and enterprises looking to connect to VoIP providers can utilize existing or new PAIX ports in Switch and Data's neutral marketplace to reduce costs and drive increased revenue. The PAIX VoIP Exchange supports multiple protocols, applications, call routing and registry services, and scalable speeds.

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