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Allworx and Excel Partner to Deliver End-to-End VoIP Solutions for Resellers Targeting Small and Medium Businesses

Combined Offering Delivers Significant Cost Savings, Extensive Feature Sets, and Exceptional Customer Service

EAST ROCHESTER, N.Y., and IRVING, T.X., November 5, 2007 . Allworx, the Small Business Voice and Network Company, and Excel today announced an alliance to provide resellers that service small and medium businesses with an all-inclusive VoIP solution that delivers significant cost savings, extensive feature sets, and exceptional customer service.

Excel is the leading provider of Voice-Over-IP (VoIP) network services for Small Business, Service Providers, Agents and Call Centers. Excel has deployed the first native VoIP network covering every tandem office in the United States. The network services nearly 1.4 million residential and business customers each day. Excel's SIP trunking solution delivers a complete suite of next-generation services including Voice and Data over ONE network and ONE bill.

Allworx's family of IP-PBX/Key systems include the award winning Allworx 6x, 10x, & 24x offerings, which are designed for businesses from 2 to 100 employees per site. Allworx was recently ranked in the top 10 Alternative VoIP/voice networking vendors by VAR Business Magazine, ahead of companies such as Mitel, NEC, Panasonic, Toshiba and many others. Allworx is the only solution that combines the feature set, reliability and price point of traditional systems, with the benefit of VoIP. Thousands of SMBs have already transitioned to VoIP with Allworx, leveraging simple and straight-forward installation and administration capabilities.

The combination of Excel's SIP trunking capabilities and Allworx's hardware allows SMBs to maximize their voice and data services, and realize additional savings by eliminating the cost and maintenance associated with legacy phone systems. By integrating voice (Local and Long Distance) and data services to one simple bundle customers will typically save up to 50% on their monthly bill as well simplify managing numerous suppliers.

"Our combined offerings provide the type of full-featured telephony solution that enhances the way a small business operates, while also enhancing their bottom line in the process; all backed by our industry leading 90 Day Service Promise" said James Cashiola, CEO, Excel �We're excited to partner with Allworx because their systems provide the right mix of features for the SMB marketplace, and they're easy to use and maintain - which results in successful, and long-lasting engagements with our customers."

"We've completed extensive interoperability testing, and we're thrilled to work with Excel to simplify the process for our channel partners that are serving the communications needs of the SMB marketplace," said George E. Daddis, chief executive officer for Allworx. �Our award winning hardware and Excel's services provide customers with a seamless transition from traditional telephone service to VoIP, and we're doing everything we can to make it easier for our channel partners to bring this solution to the SMB marketplace."

About Allworx

Allworx, a wholly owned subsidiary of PAETEC, is comprised of two divisions. The Allworx Product Division develops award winning, phone & network systems for smallto-medium sized businesses through a network of Authorized Resellers. The product line includes the Allworx 6x, 10x and 24x systems and Allworx 9112 and 9102 phones along with a series of software options. By combining the advanced features of today's VoIP systems with the key system features SMBs have grown to rely on, Allworx systems are ideal replacements for the millions of aging (TDM) PBX and key phone systems in use today. Allworx Corp's second division, the Allworx Consulting Division, delivers elite software and digital hardware engineering services to both large and small companies who want to enhance and compliment their research and product development capabilities.

Contacts:
Todd Keefe For Immediate Release PR for Allworx
617-262-1968 x 100
Todd@firpr.com

Mark Dunlap for Excel Telecommunications
972-910-1410
mark.dunlap@excel.com