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For Converged Networks, It's All In the Delivery: Page 5 of 8

The MGW 2400 is our favorite streaming media product, thanks in part to its Element Management System (EMS) management console, an SNMP-based application that supports Pentium III with Microsoft Windows NT 4 or Windows 2000 Pro and 128 MB of RAM. It can set a target stream as unicast or multicast. Although unicast is limited to 10 simultaneous users, the MGW 2400 can multicast a stream directly from the appliance and leverage up to four external Windows Media servers to distribute video to an unlimited number of users. The MGW 2400 is also our pick for best digital convergence product of the year.

Finalist:

• Squeeze 3 Compression Suite, Sorenson Media, (888) 767-3676. www.sorenson.com

Unified Messaging Solution

Winner: Communité 2.2, Interactive Intelligence, (317) 872-3000. www.ININ.com

Interactive Intelligence's Communité edged out Cisco's Unity for the most well-connected unified messenger. Although both products support SIP, run on standard Intel-based processors supported by Microsoft Windows NT 4 or Windows 2000, and scale to several hundred ports or sessions per server, Communité's integration with TDM-based and