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MADISON, WI – January 22, 2010 – Singlewire Software, LLC, (www.singlewire.com), developer of innovative voice applications centered around secure, fast, and reliable mass notification, today announced a partnership with Valcom (www.valcom.com), manufacturer of loudspeaker, telecommunications, and intercom paging systems, for producing InformaCast-compliant speaker endpoints.

Singlewire InformaCast is a full-featured notification system that allows users to simultaneously send an audio and/or text message to a variety of endpoints including IP speakers and overhead paging systems. It is implemented by over 2000 organizations in 35 countries worldwide.

Valcom, the largest provider of telephone-integrated paging systems, will be manufacturing an extensive line of IP-based, PoE (Powered over Ethernet) speakers utilizing Singlewire’s InformaCast-compliant protocols for delivering emergency notification, mass notification, and overhead paging. InformaCast-compliant IP speakers from Valcom will enable customers to take full advantage of the many notification products offered by Singlewire’s network-centric solutions, facilitating the transition from an analog-only paging environment to an IP-based paging solution.

“Valcom has a great reputation in the industry for manufacturing and delivering high-quality speakers and paging systems,” states Paul Shain, CEO of Singlewire Software. “By making these systems compliant with Singlewire InformaCast, Valcom customers will gain the value of industry-leading software tools to manage and deliver a host of next generation notification solutions.”

“This partnership is a big win for building managers as well as public safety officials,” states Ken Bywaters, Executive Vice President of Product Development at Singlewire. “Valcom worked closely with us in the development of their speaker firmware to ensure compliance with our InformaCast protocols. Schools, government agencies, healthcare facilities, and any organization deployed with Valcom paging can now easily extend notification to new endpoints and systems on their IP network.”

“We are excited to offer an array of 24 InformaCast compatible audio endpoints including IP speakers with features such as built-in clocks and talkback capability, IP Paging Horns and InformaCast compatible paging gateways.  The InformaCast endpoints are PoE and made in the USA,” states John Mason, President of Valcom, Inc.

Valcom’s endpoint products are available through major communication distributors or through Valcom directly. Singlewire InformaCast can be ordered through registered partners or ordered direct.

About Valcom:  Since 1977, Valcom has been providing the highest quality loudspeaker paging and telecommunication system enhancement intercom products.  For nearly 15 years, Valcom has supported IP loudspeaker paging to thousands of customers including large corporations, universities, State and Local governments, the military and smaller companies that have widely spread operations.   Valcom IP Solution provides highly reliable IP communications, IP Intercom Systems and IP based Multimodal Mass Notification Systems. Valcom’s products are manufactured in state-of-the-art facilities in Roanoke, Virginia USA and include an extensive line of IP and analog page control interfaces, gateways, ceiling/wall speakers, paging horns, clocks, background music, power supplies and door entry systems.  To learn more, please visit www.valcom.com

About Singlewire: Singlewire, based in Madison, WI develops and supports innovative voice applications centered around secure, fast, and reliable mass notification capabilities. Main offerings include: InformaCast, InformaCast CK, PushToTalk, and DORA, and allow customers unprecedented control in designing mass notifications, assigning them to specific recipients, and determining the medium for dissemination—IP phones, IP speakers, email, etc.—all with the peerless capacity for customization to our customers’ specific environments. To learn more, please visit www.singlewire.com.

Media Contacts:

Brad Parkel
Director of Marketing
Singlewire Software, LLC

608.661.1154

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Press Release

New Company Formed to Focus on Mass Notification and Physical Security Systems

Madison, WI – April 1, 2009 – Singlewire Software, LLC, (www.singlewire.com) today announced its formation as a company to focus on building applications for the Unified Communications and physical security spaces. Singlewire Software has acquired the assets of Berbee Software, including the InformaCast^® family of IP notification applications, from CDW Corporation. Singlewire Software intends to continue the enhancement of the InformaCast platform to include the integration of its notification technology into the physical security space. The company will be headquartered in Madison, WI.

Paul Shain, former CEO of Berbee and former Senior VP at CDW, will be serving as President and Chief Executive Officer. Ken Bywaters, current Practice Manager for Berbee Software, will become Executive Vice President of Product Management. Greg Sliwicki, former President of Berbee and former VP of Sales at CDW, will become Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Brett Rimkus, former CFO at Berbee and former CDW Vice President of Business Development, will become Chief Financial Officer. In addition, the engineering and sales team currently supporting the applications as Berbee Software will become employees of Singlewire Software.

“These software applications have been a valuable asset to both Berbee and CDW for many years,” said Paul Shain, Singlewire CEO. “Everyone involved recognized that in order for this technology to move forward, we needed to bring increased focus to this effort. Consolidating under Singlewire Software was the best means to do this.”

Singlewire Software will develop and support innovative, IP-based voice applications centered around secure, fast, and reliable mass notification capabilities, especially during emergency situations. The suite of applications is designed to detect incidents within an organization, notify people or systems of such incidents, and activate the necessary systems to resolve the situation. Product features include enterprise-wide paging, emergency mass notification, remote detection of incidents on an IP network (i.e. activating RFID tags and IP video cameras and sending audio and text messages to IP phones and desktop workstations), and remote control of IP phones for training and support. Singlewire Software applications are presently used by over 2,000 businesses in 35 countries.

The Berbee Software engineering and sales team was originally formed under Berbee Information Networks Corporation in 1998. The mission of this application group was to create software applications for the IP or data network of an organization. InformaCast,^® the flagship application written by Berbee’s application group, was used extensively as an emergency mass notification system after the September 11 terrorist attacks. The Berbee application group, operating as “Berbee Software,” along with the parent company, Berbee Information Networks Corporation, was acquired by CDW Corporation on October 11, 2006. While the Berbee application group has been acquired by Singlewire Software, all other portions of the former Berbee Information Networks Corporation remain with CDW and form the heart of CDW’s Advanced Technology Services offerings.

“The Berbee Software team will best be able to maximize the current and future potential of InformaCast and other key applications by being organized into this new company,” said John A. Edwardson, chairman and chief executive officer, CDW Corporation. “CDW will continue as a key hardware provider for Singlewire customers. We wish our friends Paul, Greg, Ken, and Brett well in this new venture.”

Media Inquiries

Paul Shain, CEO
Singlewire Software

media@singlewire.com