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Softil Joins PSTA to Help Drive Interoperability of First Responder Tools

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News Release

For Immediate Release

Tel Aviv, 6 November 2018

Softil Joins PSTA to Help Drive Interoperability of Next Generation First Responder Tools

Leading Mission Critical Communications (MCC) enabler Softil joins the Public Safety Technology Alliance (PSTA) to contribute to the selection and testing of open standards for applications, handsets, connected devices, and cloud applications and storage

Mission-critical communications (MCC) enablerSoftiltoday announces that it is joining thePublic Safety Technology Alliance (PSTA) as a Platinum memberto assist in the identification and selection of best in class standards for the next generation of first responder tools.

"A new wave of mission-critical communication over LTE technology tools is coming to market for first responders and it is essential they are all based on open standards and open standard APIs to ensureseamless deployment of applications, services, platforms, and devices to enable public safety with consensus-driven, standardized, innovative solutions to improve operations and make emergency response safer for the community and those who serve," says TJ Kennedy, CEO, PSTA. "Softil's expertise and long history in steering the adoption of best-in-breed specifications acrossthe IP communications industrywill greatly benefit the work of PSTA's technical subcommittees."

MCC over LTE technology represents a paradigm shift for first responder operations. Compared with traditional basic radios, it puts into their hands for the first time advanced, state-of-the-art communication capabilities such as video sharing, ability to track teams and objects on a real-time map, and to interact and control robots and drones.

Most importantly, MCC over LTE technology joins up and unifies emergency operations of law enforcement, fire and EMS. To operate seamlessly, the technology demands the strictest adherence to open standards and field-proven interoperability for all components of mission critical system deployments - the areas of major focus and influence of the PSTA.

"The adoption of open standards for the vast array of next generation MCC tools is paramount to ensure their interoperability, increase choice to public agencies and drive down costs," addsSagi Subocki, Softil Vice President, Products and Marketing. "By joining the PSTA, Softil can work with member companies and public safety agencies to help bring this about."

The PSTA is a non-profit organization with a mission of fostering, identifying and promoting specific open, best in class, standards-based technology for the public safety user community. The PSTA's mission is to accelerate the conformance of open and standards compliant technology, select those standards that will offer public safety a safe, secure and interoperable framework for the next generation of communications tools, and provide helpful guidance to industry for the implementation and testing of technical specifications for applications, handsets, connected devices, and cloud applications and storage that will be used by the first responder community, specifically to ensure public safety can choose the best tools and know that they will all work together seamlessly.

Softil, Specifications and MCC Solutions

Softil's history in the development of global industry standards can be traced back to 1995 when trading as RADVISION. Over the years, the firm contributed to the works of the ITU-T, IETF, 3GPP, ETSI and other standards bodies. It was on the board of IMTC (International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium) for more than 20 years, and was President of the body for more than 11 years. As IMTC was the leading organization in interoperability of multimedia technologies, Softil also chaired multiple IMTC Activity Groups, such as H.323, Conferencing over IP, 3G-324M and IMS.

Softil also held Board positions in the SIP Forum, IMS Forum and UC Interoperability Forum and participated in the work of OMA, GSMA, oneM2M, GCF and many other organizations and has also participated in hundreds of interoperability testing events including IMTC SuperOp!, IMS Forum Plugtests, SIP Forum SIPit and SIMPLEit and ETSI Plugtests.

About Softil

Softilis today'sde-factoIP communications leader and enabler for more than 800 corporations across the globe. Its technological achievements include the pioneering of Voice and Video over IP with a wide range of embedded technologies and testing solutions, combining our unique expertise in standards-based signalling, multimedia and IMS. Softil's award-winning suite of Protocol Stacks, including IMS, Diameter, SIP and H.323, as well as its state-of-the-art BEEHD client framework, provide the core technology behind the rich media applications and products of today's Enterprise, IMS/VoLTE, and Mission Critical communications industry, greatly simplifies their development, and ensures earliest time-to-market.For further information, visithttps://www.softil.com.

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For further information, executive interviews and images please contact:

Sagi Subocki

VP Products & Marketing

Mobile: +972 54 776 9634

Email:sagi.subocki@softil.com

Hugh Paterson, CEO

Whoosh PR,

Direct Landline+44 (0)1323 318720, Mobile +44 77681 75452

Emailhugh.paterson@whooshpr.com

Victoria Lee

PSTA