AltiGen Communications Receives 2006 Product of the Year Award from Communications Solutions

FREMONT, Calif., May 22 / PRNewswire-FirstCall / -- AltiGen Communications, Inc., a leader and market innovator in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone systems announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC) Communications Solutions has named the MAX1000 VoIP Phone System as a recipient of a 2006 Product of the Year Award.

The MAX1000 is a full-featured VoIP phone system designed for branch offices and locations with up to 48 users. The advanced phone system supports such features as SIP trunking, Meet-me conference bridge capability with scheduling application, On-demand Voice Recording, Voice mail, Unified Messaging, ExtensionAnywhere(TM) mobility and many other features in a single-box appliance.

"We're extremely pleased to receive Communications Solutions' Product of the Year Award for our new MAX1000 IP PBX", said Jerry Fleming, President & COO of AltiGen Communications. "To date, small to mid-sized businesses and branch offices have not had accessibility to many of the IP PBX features and applications that larger enterprises have long enjoyed. The MAX1000 now offers those customers a complete IP communications solution without the complexity and costs historically associated with these solutions. We also believe the market is validating our approach, as AltiGen has seen tremendous demand for the MAX1000 in both single-site and multi-site businesses since its launch."

"AltiGen Communications, Inc. has been recognized with a 2006 Product of the Year Award for their excellence in technological advancement and application refinement," said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Group Editor-in-Chief of Communications Solutions, "AltiGen has proven they are committed to quality and excellence in solutions that benefit the customer experience as well as ROI for the companies that use them. I am pleased to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from them in the future."

The seventh annual Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award recognizes the vision, leadership and attention to detail that are the hallmarks of the prestigious award. The most innovative products and services brought to market in 2006 have been selected as recipients of this year's Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award for their groundbreaking achievement.

The 2006 Product of the Year Award winners can be found on the Communications Solutions Web site.

About AltiGen Communications
AltiGen Communications, Inc. is a leader and market innovator in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone systems and call centers solutions. AltiGen designs, manufactures and markets advanced, IP-PBX telephone systems and IP call centers that leverage both the Internet and the public telephone network. These products enable an array of applications that take advantage of the convergence of voice and data communications to achieve superior business results. AltiGen Communications products are available from independent authorized resellers and strategic partners. AltiGen's AltiServ(TM) family of telephony solutions has been recognized for excellence with more than 40 industry awards since 1996. Focused on the small to midsized and multi-site businesses, AltiGen customers benefit from integrated solutions that protect their existing investments, while providing new ways to be more competitive, productive and to save money. For more information, call 1-888-ALTIGEN or visit the Web site at www.altigen.com.

About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Inter@ction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine, IMS Magazine and Unified Communications (launching summer 2007). TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 0.003 percent of sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves nearly two million unique visitors each month, according to WebTrends. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, Communications Developer Conference, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical online newsletters. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.)

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

SOURCE: AltiGen Communications, Inc. 05/22/2007
CONTACT: Investor Relations, Niel Levonius, Sr. Product Marketing Manager of AltiGen Communications, Inc., nlevonius@altigen.com, +1-510-252-9712 ext. 415; or Jan Pierret of Technology Marketing Corporation, jpierret@tmcnet.com, +1-203-852-6800 ext. 228; or Brendan Lahiff of FD (Financial Dynamics), brendan.lahiff@fd.com, +1-415-439-4504 for AltiGen Communications, Inc. / First Call Analyst: / FCMN Contact: /
Web site: www.altigen.com / www.tmcnet.com /

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