Mill Valley, 7 April 2009 - The Radicati Group, Inc, recently rated CommuniGate Systems, the leader in carrier-class Mobile Unified Communications, as a Top Player in Messaging Platforms for Hosted E-Mail Providers. The 2009 Radicati Market Quadrant(SM) report analyzed industry suppliers offering highly scalable messaging platforms designed for demanding service provider environments ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of subscribers.

The report evaluates the key strengths of CommuniGate Pro such as:

- Mobile push E-mail, Calendar and Contacts
- A highly tuned platform for SaaS delivery with a rich set of carrier specific APIs
- Single system image with virtualization of thousands of hosted business or residential subscribers
- High density and efficient platform to reduce servers, administration and power
- Capability for Hot Change management with Dynamic Cluster technology

“We are very proud to be rated as one of the industry leaders in the market that serves Network Operators and ISPs providing SaaS,” says Jon R. Doyle, VP Business Development, CommuniGate Systems, “this shows us that our development efforts to provide an integrated Mobile Unified Communications platform is appreciated not only by our customers but by market observers.” He continues, “Today we see that the UC as SaaS for the SME market segment is very attractive from a revenue potential and we believe our platform is the best technology to monetize the service.”

“CommuniGate Systems has proven over the years that it provides a rich feature set of applications and a reliable SaaS platform,” says Sara Radicati, CEO of The Radicati Group, Inc. “The CommuniGate Pro Unified Communications platform continues to gain more market share within the hosted e-mail industry.”

CommuniGate Pro is the most reliable SaaS delivery platform. It delivers virtualization of domains with a modular feature set, powerful class of service provisioning and a live rolling update change management capability not found in other solutions. The platform's exclusive Dynamic Clustering architecture provides 99.999% uptime in a multi-tenant architecture with no single point of failure. SaaS providers can add frontend or backend nodes as needed without any downtime or service interruption. CommuniGate Pro makes it easy for service providers to offer business class Value Added Services with costs that decline as virtualized client volume increases. CommuniGate Pro is the only UC platform built to power all forms of IP communications in one integrated platform.

The Web 2.0 client Pronto! delivers a single sign-in and user interface for all forms of communications including e-mail, presence, IM, VoIP, Rich Media, and Mobility. Pronto! is built with Adobe® Flex® 3. It is deployed in the browser with the Adobe Flash® Player and on the desktop with Adobe AIR™. Pronto! unifies all forms of communications together with a framework that allows expansion or new applications to snap into the server or UI as modules. Network operators use this framework to deliver Value Added Services for Rich Media Communications and advanced collaboration for UC in the SaaS model. Pronto! allows carriers to build modular services e.g. delivering VideoMail, IPTV or Video on Demand (VOD) to subscribers while offering full featured Mobile Unified Communications to the SME market.

The CommuniGate Pro Mobility Suite is the best choice for Mobile Operators and ISPs who want to provide Mobile Unified Communications and Value Added Services to their business subscribers. The Mobility Suite delivers push technology for data like e-mail, calendar and contacts with security and management features.