Melville, New York, - September 17, 2003 - Jeff Pulver, CEO, pulver.com announced the 2003 pulver100 identifying new growth companies on the telecom landscape. "The pulver100 Award seeks to remind everyone ecosystems renew after a fire," noted Jeff Pulver. "The present landscape includes the faltering elements of the old world along with the nascent and unrefined elements of the new. The pioneers need to press forward without some of the comforts of the late 90's, but it seems clear these companies embody the telecom future."

The pulver100 list, first introduced in September, 2002, includes private companies in the communications sector that have substantial real-world deployments and enjoy significant growth rates. The list seeks to include the companies that represent the future of the communications ecosystem. The value chain characterized by listed companies differs substantially from the vertically integrated telecom model of the last century. The companies prospering in the new environment have followed the computer and networking industry model with open interfaces, connectivity decoupled from services, and software decoupled from hardware. The companies have little or no dependence on the traditional telephone network, equipment, or service providers.

The pulver100 includes: Acme Packet, Actelis Networks, ActiveBuddy, Akonix, Applied Messaging, Ascendent Telecom, Avotus, BayPackets, Blueslice Networks, Brecis Communications, Broadsoft, Cbeyond Communications, Celtic Communications, Cirpack, CITEL Technologies, ComMatch, Commetrex, ConceptWave, Convedia, Cosmocom, Digital Agent, Digital Ingenuity, eDial, Estech Systems, FaceTime, Gallery IP Telephony, General Bandwidth, GoBeam, Groove Networks, Hotsip, i3Micro Network, Indigo Software, Ingate, Interphos, IP Unity, IPeria, Jasomi Networks, Kagoor, LivePerson, LongBoard, M5 Networks, Marratech, Masergy Communications, Media-Streams, Metaswitch, Microsource, Mitel, Natural Convergence, Net Insight, Netcentrex, Netrake, Neustar, NexTone Communications, Nutek India, Octasic, OnRelay, Operax, OZ, Packet Front, Pactolus, PalTalk, PresenceWorks, Protus IP Solutions, Psytechnics, Quintum Technologies, Ridgeway Systems, SeeStorm, sentitO, SnowShore Networks, Sockeye Networks, Sonexis, SS8 Networks, Straticom, Surf Communications, SWYX, Sylantro, Syndeo, tek Vizion, Telchemy, Telesoft, TeleSym, Telesynthesis, Telica, Tellme Networks, Telstrat, ThinkEngine Networks, TransNexus, Trinity Convergence, Ubiquity Software, Unimax, Vernier Networks, VocalData, Vonage, Voxpath Networks, Voyant Technologies, Webmessenger, Wintegra, Xten Networks, Zion Software, and Zultys Technologies.

See links to pulver100 company websites at http://www.pulver.com/pulver100

About pulver.com ( http://www.pulver.com)

Jeff Pulver founded pulver.com at the end of 1994. In addition to producing the highly successful VON conferences, pulver.com is engaged in many activities that promote the growth of communication technology. The pulver.com website (http://www.pulver.com) is a key source of information for those in the IP Communications industry and The Pulver Report (http://pulver.com/reports) has over 50,000 subscribers for whom it is a primary source of news and information on the latest developments in emerging net technologies. Mr. Pulver is the founder of: The VON Coalition, pulverRadio, RevUp Records and co-founder of: Vonage and WHP Wireless.

CONTACT: pulver.com Daniel Berninger, +1.202.250.3426 dan@pulver.com

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