Ingate® Makes a Splash at Spring VON

Largest Presence at VON Ever; Showcases Breadth of Partnerships, New Technologies and a Reseller Program

HOLLIS, N.H., March 15, 2004- Ingate Systems AB (www.ingate.com), which produces and sells the world's only fully Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-capable enterprise firewalls, will be making a splash at Spring VON 2004 with a larger presence than ever before. Boasting a number of strategic news announcements, Ingate will feature prominently at Spring VON with an array of speaking engagements for Ingate executives, an exciting booth showcase and an on-site awareness campaign.

At the Ingate Booth #809, the company will showcase the breadth of its interoperability partnerships with industry leaders, including Microsoft. An interoperability demo with Microsoft Office Live Communications Server (LCS) will be featured, along with live video demonstrations of Ingate's SIP-enabling family of products.

Strategic news announcements - including the launch of a partner program for resellers in the U.S. and an unveiling of new advanced SIP connectivity solutions, among other news - will also be made at Spring VON. The company will also participate in several on-site marketing and sponsorship activities for increased visibility of the Ingate brand.

"This year, Ingate's presence will be stronger than ever at VON," said Olle Westerberg, Chief Executive Officer, Ingate Systems. "We have several major announcements planned for the show, including technological advancements for Ingate Firewalls® and Ingate SIParators®. We're also launching of a SIP education and sales assistance program specifically for resellers in the U.S. Drawing on our experience and tremendous success from the Ingate Partner Program already established in Europe, we are looking forward to offering the same certification, training and support to resellers here in the States."

Executives Take to the Stage with Several Speaking Engagements

Ingate Chairman Karl Ståhl, CEO Olle Westerberg and President of Ingate Systems Inc. Steve Johnson will all be busy on the speaker podium at Spring VON. Both Ståhl and Westerberg will sit on the Border Traversal General Session on March 29. They will discuss firewall traversal issues in a SIP-enabled setting, and provide clear solutions for businesses of any size looking to migrate their enterprise to SIP.

Johnson will put his VoIP expertise to work in his Enterprise VoIP Solutions workshop, also on March 29. His presentation will offer practical advice for enterprise-wide adoption of VoIP.

Westerberg will join the panel "SIP and the Enterprise," held March 31. The panel will address the unique issues - including security and NAT traversal - facing businesses as they leverage SIP-based communications.

For more information, please visit the Ingate booth #809 at Spring VON, or online at www.ingate.com.

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.

For more information, please contact:

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

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