Sutus Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) Magazine's Twelfth Annual Product of the Year Award

Business Central BC200 Recognized for Outstanding Innovation

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Mar 09, 2010, 02:46 ET

VANCOUVER, March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Sutus, Inc. announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC®) INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has named the Sutus Business Central BC200 as a recipient of its 2009 Product of the Year Award.

The Business Central BC200 delivers a complete IT and IP telephony infrastructure platform for small business and branch locations. The BC200 solution is an e-mail server, Web server, file server, WiFi access point, VPN router, firewall and an IP-PBX, including seamless integration with the entire line of Polycom IP phones. The platform is truly a complete 'business right out of the box' solution. "Being selected for the Product of the Year award by Internet Telephony is a testimony to the degree to which we have distilled the most crucial needs of our customers into a single appliance. Our target market is locations with 25 users or less, whether they are stand alone businesses franchises or branch locations. We offer a single, simple to install and manage solution," said Robin Porter, President and CEO of Sutus. "We're proud to be recognized by Internet Telephony as an industry leading technology."

"INTERNET TELEPHONY is proud to grant Sutus a 2009 Product of the Year Award for their Business Central BC200 platform. Sutus has proven its commitment to quality and excellence while addressing real needs in the marketplace," said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. "We're happy to recognize and honor Sutus for their development of IP communications technology. We look forward to more innovative solutions from them in the future."

A complete list of Product of the Year winners is published in the February 2010 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, (www.itmag.com). INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the authority in IP communication since 1998™.

For more information about TMC, please visit www.tmcnet.com.

About SUTUS, Inc.

Sutus provides small businesses with an enterprise quality all-in-one solution that delivers office network and telephone infrastructure that is affordable, robust and extremely flexible. The Sutus Business Central™ is the winner of Internet Telephony magazine's 2009 Product of the Year Award, VON Innovators Award 2008, Unified Communications product of the year awards and IT Expo's 'Best Newcomer' award. It is designed specifically for business locations with up to 25 users, providing all core IT infrastructure as well as on-demand turnkey traditional phone, VoIP, and other advanced phone and data services through Sutus business partners. The Business Central significantly improves a reseller's ability to remotely manage business customers with locations of 25 users or less.

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About INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine

INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the IP Communications Authority since 1998™. Beginning with the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been providing unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine reaches more than 225,000 readers, including pass-along readers. For more information, please visit www.itmag.com.

About TMC

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is a global integrated media company helping our clients build communities in print, in person and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and NGN magazines. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMCnet is read by two million unique visitors each month on average worldwide, according to Webtrends. TMCnet has ranked within the top 3,500 in Quantcast's Top U.S. sites, placing TMCnet in the nation's top .03% most visited Web sites. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO (ITEXPO); 4GWE Conference and M2M Evolution (in conjunction with Crossfire Media); Digium|Asterisk World (in conjunction with Digium); and Smart Grid Summit (in conjunction with Intelligent Communication Partners). For more information about TMC, visit http://tmcnet.com/.