WINDSOR, England, November 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Integrated Research, the maker of PROGNOSIS VoIP monitoring solutions, announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) has recognised PROGNOSIS with a 2009 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award presented by INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

"The editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY were pleased to grant Integrated Research with an INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award for their achievements in advancing IP communications and providing innovative solutions in the marketplace. The PROGNOSIS suite of VoIP monitoring solutions have proven their outstanding contribution to IP communications and have delivered winning solutions for customers," said Erik Linask, Group Editorial Director of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

PROGNOSIS VoIP monitoring solutions provide deep visibility and control into Avaya, Nortel, and Cisco IP telephony environments to help businesses protect revenue and reduce costs. PROGNOSIS goes beyond network metrics to provide best-in-class voice quality monitoring, including real-time and historical voice quality, PBX configuration, gateway and device status, VoIP availability and performance, phone registrations, call attempts and completions, and deep diagnostics for troubleshooting.

Pierre Semaan, GM of Product Management and Marketing for Integrated Research, accepted the product excellence award. "PROGNOSIS VoIP monitoring solutions have been successful in the market because they provide high scalability, multi-platform support that minimises costs, deep metrics that reduce mean-time-to-repair, and real-time insight that is critical for operating VoIP. Industry review and recognition is important and we appreciate the review and validation of the success of PROGNOSIS from INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine."

"We are very pleased to present Integrated Research with a 2009 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award. PROGNOSIS VoIP monitoring solutions have made an incredible contribution to IP Communications and have also delivered great value for clients," stated Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC.

The 2009 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award winners are published in the October 2009 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, http://www.itmag.com.

About Integrated Research

Integrated Research (ASX: IRI), the people behind PROGNOSIS, is a publicly listed software company that has provided precise performance monitoring solutions for business-critical computing and IP telephony environments since 1988. Customers include the world's largest bank, telecommunications company, stock exchange, and computer hardware manufacturer. For more information, please visit http://www.prognosis.com or http://www.voicequality.com.

About INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine

INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the IP Communications Authority since 1998(TM). 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 http://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 3,000 in Quantcast's Top U.S. sites, placing TMCnet in the nation's top .03% most visited Web sites. In addition, TMC produces ITEXPO, 4GWE Conference (in conjunction with Crossfire Media), Digium|Asterisk World and AstriCon (in conjunction with Digium), and Communications Developer Conference. For more information about TMC, visit http://www.tmcnet.com.

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