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Veraz Networks and Comarch Announce Wholesale

Revenue Assurance Solution Using Pre-Paid Billing

Solution enables wholesale carriers to cost-effectively offer


advanced carrier pre-paid billing solutions across
heterogeneous networks

SAN JOSE, CA & KRAKOW, POLAND – May 26, 2009 – Veraz Networks,
Inc., (NASDAQ: VRAZ), the leading provider of Multimedia Generation Network
application, control, and bandwidth optimization products, and Comarch, the
leading BSS/OSS vendor and systems integrator, today announced a joint
offering for wholesale carriers that combines Comarch’s real-time pre-paid,
service creation and credit control application with Veraz’s ControlSwitch™
interconnect VoIP platform.

Wholesale service providers are increasingly looking to offer pre-paid billing


as an option for their carrier customers. Carrier pre-paid services require real-
time billing, credit control and revenue assurance capabilities that need to be
tightly integrated into both the carrier’s OSS/BSS systems and their voice
switching infrastructure.

In many cases, wholesale operators’ voice networks are a multi-vendor


mixture of legacy TDM switches, next generation softswitches and
increasingly IMS SIP components. The real-time integration of all of these
diverse elements into a unified pre-paid billing architecture is often
technically challenging and cost-prohibitive.

The Veraz-Comarch solution addresses this by leveraging Veraz’s ability to


interwork across legacy, first generation softswitches and IMS-based SIP
control elements, providing a unified interface into the carrier pre-paid
system and overall OSS/BSS environment. This dramatically lowers the cost
of integrating a diverse network switching environment into the pre-paid
system.

Comarch’s BSS/OSS portfolio and expertise, which includes convergent billing


systems for retail and wholesale carriers, telecom CRM systems and network
and service assurance applications provides carriers with an industry leading
and complete solution covering billing, rating, charging and real-time service
creation and control.

“By working together, Comarch and Veraz are lowering the cost and
complexity of implementing pre-paid wholesale services,” stated Piotr
Piątosa, VP Telecommunications, Member of the Board, Comarch SA. “Our
joint solution provides a powerful platform that can easily accommodate

-more-
future service capabilities without requiring significant changes to the
network.”

“The Veraz-Comarch solution delivers an industry-leading carrier prepaid


solution, solving both the interworking complexity for carriers across multiple
switching platforms, as well as the real-time reporting and credit control
required in this environment,” said Dawn Hogh, Vice President of Marketing
for Veraz Networks. “Veraz is pleased to be working with Comarch to deliver
these types of capabilities to wholesale carriers globally.”

About Comarch
Since 1993, Comarch has been specializing in designing, implementing and
integrating solutions and services for telecommunications operators.
Experience gained throughout this period, in addition to its knowledge of the
latest industry trends led to the development of a wide customer portfolio
that spreads across 4 continents and includes the biggest market players: T-
Mobile, Telefonica O2, Vodafone as well as MVNO operators such as Auchan
Telecom, France. Comarch customers’ satisfaction has always been the
strongest confirmation of the quality of its solutions in the areas of billing and
inter-partner settlements, as well as management of telecommunications
networks and services. Comarch offering for telecom operators is primarily
addressed to Fixed, Cable and Broadband Operators, Mobile Operators,
Wholesale Departments, MVNO/MVNE Operators, ISPs and VoIP Operators and
Content Providers and IPTV Operators. More information can be found at:
telecoms.comarch.com.

About Veraz Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRAZ)


Veraz Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRAZ) is the leading provider of application,
control, and bandwidth optimization products that enable the evolution to the
Multimedia Generation Network (MGN). Veraz Networks makes it possible for
fixed and mobile service providers to create, manage and transport
application sessions cost-effectively and securely across TDM and IP
networks. Service providers worldwide use the Veraz MGN portfolio to extend
their existing legacy applications to new all-IP based networks, rapidly add
customized services that drive revenue, and lower the cost of session
transport. The Veraz MGN architecture separates the control, media, and
application layers while unifying management of the network, enabling any
application to run over any network while optimizing session control and
transport. Wireline and wireless service providers in more than 60 countries
have deployed products from the Veraz MGN portfolio, which includes the
ControlSwitch™, Network-adaptive Border Controller, I-Gate 4000 Media
Gateways, I-Gate 4000 Session Bandwidth Optimizer, I-Gate 4000 SIP
Gateway, VerazView Management System, and a set of prepackaged
applications. For more information please visit www.veraznetworks.com.

This press release may contain forward-looking statements regarding future


events that involve risks and uncertainties. Readers are cautioned that these
forward-looking statements are only predictions and may differ materially
from actual future events or results. These forward-looking statements
involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that if they do not
fully materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially
from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The
risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from
those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include but
are not limited to, sales and markets for the ControlSwitch and other risks
and uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed with or
furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. More information
about these and other risks that may impact Veraz's business is set forth the
"Risk Factors" section in our 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008 and
our 10-Q for the quarter ended March 30, 2009 as filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission. These filings are available on a website
maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission at
http://www.sec.gov. All forward-looking statements in this press release are
based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we assume no
obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

VRAZ-IR

Company Contacts:

Veraz Editorial Contacts:


Dawn Hogh, Veraz Networks, +1-408-750-9533, dhogh@veraznet.com
Ilene Adler, Vantage Communications, +1-415-984-1970 ex102, iadler@pr-
vantage.com

Veraz Investor Relations Contact:


Ron Vidal, MBS Value Partners, +1 (415) 606-6998, ron.vidal@mbsvalue.com

Comarch SA

Company Contact:

Comarch Telecommunications Press Office


Katarzyna Gajewska
Tel: +48 12 646 15 04
Gsm: +48 691 464 119
Fax: +48 12 646 11 00
E-mail: Katarzyna.Gajewska@Comarch.com

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