INGATE® DELIVERS THE SKINNY ON VOIP AT ABP'S "VOIP SIZZLES!" EVENT IN DALLAS

Event Educates Resellers on Turning Today's Heightened VoIP Interest into Sales

HOLLIS, NH, July 9, 2004 - Systems AB (www.ingate.com), which produces and sells the world's only fully Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-capable enterprise firewalls, will be participating in "VoIP Sizzles", held in Dallas from July 22-23, 2004. Hosted by ABP Technology, this event for resellers will focus on the specific opportunities and challenges for traditional data VARs and telecom dealers who are moving into the Voice over IP (VoIP) market.

A world leader in next-generation firewall technology, Ingate produces and sells the world's first SIP-capable enterprise firewalls and the SIParator, a device that works in conjunction with an existing network firewall to seamlessly enable the traversal of SIP communications.

Ingate's participation in "VoIP Sizzles" strengthens the company.s long-standing relationship with ABP. ABP currently distributes Ingate.s award-winning SIP-enabling security products throughout the U.S. and South America.

Through two intense days of peer workshops, roundtable discussions and presentations by industry experts, reseller business owners attending .VoIP Sizzles!. will take away specific steps and tools to ensure that their business succeeds in the exciting and growing VoIP market.

"We are proud to be a part of ABP's "VoIP Sizzles!", said Steve Johnson, President, Ingate Systems. "Interest in VoIP is at an all-time high. This event addresses a pressing need in the reseller community by providing effective strategies to enable resellers to translate this growing interest into sales."

"With Ingate's SIParators or Firewalls, resellers provide both security and "plug and play" functionality to make the deployment of SIP-based IP phones and gateways a reality," said Robert Messer, President of ABP. "The Ingate product is like the keystone of a secure but always passable bridge between the company's outside SIP phones and the corporate communications platform".

Additional information about "VoIP Sizzles" is available at www.abptech.com/VOIP_Sizzle/VOIP_Sizzle_event.html

About Ingate® Systems

A world leader in next generation firewall technology, Ingate® Systems produces and sells the world's only fully SIP-capable enterprise firewalls and the Ingate SIParator®, a device that connects to an existing network firewall to seamlessly enable the traversal of SIP communications and winner of Internet Telephony magazine's Product of the Year Award in 2002 and again in 2003. Ingate Systems has a long history of developing secure communications technology and today offers enterprises unprecedented value and ability to develop SIP-based, person-to-person real-time communications. Ingate's security products currently protect the networks of retail companies, financial institutions, industrial firms, government agencies and small-to-large enterprises throughout Europe, Asia and North America. Majority-owned by Intertex Data AB and BellNet Corp, Ingate Systems AB is located in Stockholm and Linköping, Sweden. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, Ingate Systems Inc., is located in Hollis, New Hampshire. For more information on Ingate Systems, visit www.ingate.com.

About ABP Technology

ABP Technology distributes Open Standards based VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) products through ABP VARs that are specialized reseller partners with strong backgrounds in networking and telecom. ABP Technology is based in Dallas, Texas and has a sales organization that covers the US, Canada, Mexico and Latin America. Key products distributed by ABP Technology are snom technology IP Phones, AudioCodes gateways, Ingate and Intertex SIP Firewalls and now the NetFabric Cashmere line. Additional information about ABP Technology may be obtained by visiting www.abptech.com.

For more information, please contact:

Steve Johnson, President, Ingate Systems Inc.
(603) 883-6569
steve.johnson@ingate.com

Hillary Call, Public Relations Manager, Ingate Systems
(917) 414-9262
hillary@ingate.com

Kasandra Bell, ABP Technology
(972) 831-0280, x221
kasandra@abptech.com