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Arel's Rich-Media Collaboration Solution Honored for Its Overall Achievements in Multi-Media Conferencing PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Frost & Sullivan's 2006 Product Innovation of the Year Award in the field of media conferencing software solutions over converged IP networks is awarded to Arel Communications & Software Ltd. (NASDAQ:ARLC) The Award honors Arel for developing the robust Arel Spotlight Application, its underlying infrastructure, and its overall efforts in product innovation in the realm of media conferencing over converged IP networks. Each year, this Award is presented to a company that has exhibited excellence in new products and technologies within its industry. The recipient has shown innovation by launching a broad line of emerging products and technologies. Arel's conferencing platform is an all-in-one solution that provides live and on-demand information delivery with its comprehensive tools. The application enables workforce collaboration of remote workgroups and thereby, facilitates remote attendance for panel discussions, webinars, and training using either desktop computers or handheld devices. "Arel Spotlight combines voice, video, and data collaboration in a flexible architecture that allows participants to communicate using various devices such as telephones, IP and mobile phones, video conferencing endpoints, 3G smartphones, PCs, and PDAs," says Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Vedavalli Rangan. "The enhanced communication tools in the suite aid collaboration for business communications, e-learning, and other sales-focused corporate communications." Arel Spotlight is comprised of three application modules -- Arel Spotlight Meeting, Arel Spotlight Webinar, and Arel Spotlight Campus. The Arel Spotlight Meeting is targeted at highly interactive groups and for face-to-face interactions, enabling all users to create and moderate meetings. The Arel Spotlight Webinar focuses on live online seminars organized by a moderator and is suitable for any audience, as it offers on-demand viewing capabilities. The Arel Spotlight Campus features robust authoring capabilities for e-learning or distance learning. Arel's conferencing and collaboration solutions offer media support for voice, video, and data streams as well as network support for seamless firewall and proxy traversal. Interoperability with the various networks is accomplished by supporting multiple protocols. It provides seamless connectivity from the end-user device, easily integrates with information management systems, and supports contextual collaboration with context- sensitive features. Arel provides flexible application programming interfaces (APIs) that make it easy to launch an interactive video and VoIP session from any application, including IM, web site, or a web application Arel's "Contextual Collaboration" enables people to generate an "instant online meeting" from any application and share all types of content from their computer. This makes online collaboration between remote locations as simple and intuitive as it is to work with people in the same room. Held in Phoenix, Frost & Sullivan's Information & Communications Technologies Awards Banquet honors world-class companies for contributing innovative developments to the industry, as well as companies yielding breakthrough technologies in a variety of fields within the information and communication market. An annual event, the banquet recognizes the quality and merit of distinguished individuals and companies that deliver unparalleled insight on the industry, products and services. About Arel Communications & Software: Arel Communications & Software is a leader in conferencing and collaboration solutions. Arel is focused on enhancing communications, facilitating workgroup collaboration and driving productivity in the enterprise. By providing a comprehensive application suite, Arel Spotlight(TM), for leveraging enterprise networks for rich-media communications, Arel replicates in-person meetings in the online environment. Arel's newest solution, Arel Anyware, is an audio-visual plug-in that establishes true "face-to-face" meetings over the internet. Requiring only a webcam for full-featured video operability, users can add video conferencing to any web or IM/Presence application (such as Microsoft(R) Office Live Meeting(TM)). Combining voice, video and data conferencing in one easy-to-use Web-based solution, Arel fosters interactive communications that significantly improve work environments today. Arel's solutions impact key business processes such as corporate and marketing communications, distance learning, product development, customer relationship management, and supply chain management. Allowing geographically dispersed users to work together in groups, attend webinars and panel discussions, participate in training courses, and have one-on-one meetings with customers or colleagues, from virtually anywhere, Arel Spotlight is a powerful tool for critical business communications. For more information, visit http://www.arelcom.com/ . About Frost & Sullivan Frost & Sullivan, a global growth consulting company, has been partnering with clients to support the development of innovative strategies for more than 40 years. The company's industry expertise integrates growth consulting, growth partnership services, and corporate management training to identify and develop opportunities. Frost & Sullivan serves an extensive clientele that includes Global 1000 companies, emerging companies, and the investment community by providing comprehensive industry coverage that reflects a unique global perspective and combines ongoing analysis of markets, technologies, econometrics, and demographics. For more information, visit http://www.frost.com/ . Contact: Stacie Jones 210.247.2450 DATASOURCE: Frost & Sullivan CONTACT: Stacie Jones of Frost & Sullivan, +1-210-247-2450, or Web site: http://www.frost.com/ http://www.arelcom.com/

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