"As leading telecommunications and integrated enterprise solutions providers Lanka Bell and Bell Solutions possess all the synergies and technical expertise to promote Avaya's systems," Lanka Bell managing director Prasad Samarasinghe said.

"This collaboration complements and further strengthens our business focus."

Lanka Bell's head of enterprise and international business, Mansoor Rishad, sid that many large businesses in Sri Lanka, including international banks, hotels and conglomerates were already using Avaya's enterprise communications systems.

"This agreement with Bell Solutions will help extend the availability and benefits Avaya brings to Sri Lankan businesses and their employees, including increasing efficiency and cost savings," Eugene Chng, from Avaya's Asean regional section said.

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The Audiolog call recording and quality assurance solution has successfully completed compliance testing by Avaya for compatibility with Avaya Communication Manager 5.0.

"We're pleased with our successful Audiolog interoperability testing status," comments John Bourne, senior vice president, global channels and alliances, Verint Witness Actionable Solutions. "For our public safety and contact center customers and partners, this translates into greater value and support of future innovations established on open, standards-based platforms and new technologies that will fully maximize their communications infrastructure."

Verint Systems, along with its Verint(R) Witness Actionable Solutions(TM) business line, is a member of the Avaya DevConnect Program - an initiative to develop, market and sell innovative third-party products that interoperate with Avaya technology and extend the value of a company's investment in its network. As a platinum member of the program, the company is eligible to submit products for compatibility testing by the Avaya Solution Interoperability and Test Lab in Lincroft, NJ. There, a team of Avaya engineers develops a comprehensive test plan for each application to verify whether it is Avaya compliant. Doing so helps ensure businesses can confidently add best-in-class capabilities to their network without having to replace their existing infrastructure - speeding deployment of new applications and reducing both network complexity and implementation costs.

"By offering compliance testing to the many innovative companies like Verint Systems, who are members of our DevConnect program, Avaya promotes fully interoperable solutions that help businesses unleash powerful new possibilities," says Eric Rossman, vice president, developer relations and technical alliances, Avaya. "They are able to use Intelligent Communications to connect employees and customers to information from wherever they are, over whatever device they have available - getting more out of their multivendor network and delivering new value to their bottom line."

About Avaya

Avaya delivers Intelligent Communications solutions that help companies transform their businesses to achieve marketplace advantage. More than 1 million businesses worldwide, including more than 90 percent of the FORTUNE 500(R), use Avaya solutions for IP Telephony, Unified Communications, Contact Centers and Communications-Enabled Business Processes. Avaya Global Services provides comprehensive service and support for companies, small to large. For more information visit the Avaya Web site: http://www.avaya.com. For more information on the Avaya DevConnect program, visit www.avaya.com/devconnect.

About Verint Systems Inc.

Verint Systems Inc. (VRNT.PK), headquartered in Melville, New York, is a leading provider of actionable intelligence solutions for an optimized enterprise and a safer world. Today, more than 10,000 organizations in over 150 countries rely on Verint solutions to perform more effectively, build competitive advantage and enhance the security of people, facilities and infrastructure. Visit us at our website www.verint.com.

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding expectations, predictions, views, opportunities, plans, strategies, beliefs, and statements of similar effect relating to Verint Systems Inc. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and they are based on management's expectations that involve a number of risks and uncertainties, any of which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the forward-looking statements. For a detailed discussion of these risk factors, see the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 10, 2007, as supplemented by our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on November 5, 2007, January 16, 2008, and April 9, 2008. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release and, except as required by law, the Company assumes no obligation to update or revise them or to provide reasons why actual results may differ.

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Unified Communications is defined by Dell'Oro Group as the integration of voice with other modes of real-time communications, including instant messaging, video and multi-party collaboration, as well as e-mail and messaging. UC market share is measured by Dell'Oro Group as an overlay to its enterprise telephony report in order to assess the market from a real-time collaboration perspective. Other vendors tracked in Dell'Oro Group's UC research included Cisco, Nortel, Alcatel-Lucent, Siemens and Microsoft.

"It is reasonable to believe that unified communications will be the next disruptive technology," said Alan Weckel, director, Dell'Oro Group. "UC is bringing functions that have historically been confined to core PBX hardware into software applications. The companies that can lead in this transition -- and deliver the responsive, real-time communications features that companies want -- are best positioned to compete in the new era of business communications."

Dell'Oro Group's report also measured third quarter 2008 results for the worldwide Total PBX market, a category that includes Internet protocol (IP) telephony, traditional TDM technology and hybrid telephony combining both IP and TDM technologies. Their report concluded that Avaya led the Total PBX market in revenues with 20 percent market share, 6 points ahead of its nearest competitor. This marks the fifteenth consecutive quarter that Avaya has led in the overall enterprise telephony market, based on Dell'Oro Group's reports.

Avaya's enterprise telephony and unified communications solutions are powered by Avaya Communication Manager, a business communications software platform that helps organizations easily evolve their infrastructure to help enhance business user productivity and customer service experiences. The company's unified communications includes solutions for messaging, conferencing and collaboration and the Avaya one-X(R) portfolio of desktop and mobility tools for unified access to enterprise communications over any endpoint.

For more information on the Dell'Oro Group Enterprise Telephony Report, please visit www.DellOro.com.

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Avaya is a global leader in enterprise communications systems. The company provides unified communications, contact centers, and related services directly and through its channel partners to leading businesses and organizations around the world. Enterprises of all sizes depend on Avaya for state-of-the-art communications that improve efficiency, collaboration, customer service and competitiveness. For more information please visit www.avaya.com.

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In presenting the award, Robert Smithers, CEO of Miercom, said: "The Avaya solution rated Best Survivability for Large Enterprise UC Solution. We were impressed by the high level of reliability offered by Avaya Communication Manager running on the S8730 server, with its co-resident SIP Enablement Services (SES) that improve remote survivability. In spite of all attempts to interfere with the solution's functionality by disconnecting power, disabling drives and severing network links, it effortlessly bounced right back just as designed. The SIP functionality remains intact even when the main communications server is removed."

In addition, Nemertes Research provided Avaya Unified Communications with a PilotHouse award for Best Overall Vertical Solutions. The award is based on a survey of more than 500 IT decision-makers using Unified Communications who rated vendors in a variety of areas, including product features, vision, customer service, value, etc. Avaya earned the highest overall score among customers in eight vertical markets.

According to the report, Avaya's industry-based solutions have created a solid customer experience through a focus on pulling together the right partners, products and services to create solutions designed for their needs.

Across the board, Avaya received some of its highest scores in technology and solution experience, according to the report. The technology rating evaluates the sophistication of the underlying technology and operating systems and includes underlying software, platforms, intelligence and standards compliance. Solution experience is the vendor's ability to understand business requirements and craft solutions that meet customer needs.

"IT practitioners say Avaya does a good job pulling together IT components, creating solutions that help them resolve business problems specific to their vertical industries," says Robin Gareiss, executive vice president of Nemertes Research. "Among several rating categories, Avaya's customers gave the highest marks in technology, value, and solution experience."

About Avaya

Avaya is a global leader in enterprise communications systems. The company provides unified communications, contact centers, and related services directly and through its channel partners to leading businesses and organizations around the world. Enterprises of all sizes depend on Avaya for state-of-the-art communications that improve efficiency, collaboration, customer service and competitiveness. For more information please visit www.avaya.com.

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