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BurstPoint Networks and Carousel Industries Partner to Deliver Powerful Video Communications Platform to Enterprises

New Channel Relationship Expands Opportunities for Organizations to Maximize Investments in Video Communications Technology

Westborough, Mass. & Exeter, Rhode Island, January 18, 2011 — BurstPoint Networks and Carousel Industries, a leader in data networking and converged communications, today announced BurstPoint has joined Carousel’s Premier Partner Program. As such, Carousel will offer the BurstPoint Video Communication Platform™ (VCP)™ to customers as part of the organization’s family of video/unified communications technologies.

“The BurstPoint VCP is a natural fit for Carousel Industries and offers our customers a way to add new value to how they are already making use of video and unified communications in their enterprise environments,” said James Marsh, Senior Vice President, Carousel Industries. “Having BurstPoint join our Premier Partner Program provides us with the means to continue our long tradition of delivering the best solutions to our customer base.”

The BurstPoint VCP is a fully integrated, scalable, end-to-end enterprise platform that enables organizations across industries to deploy a single solution for the capture, distribution, management, viewing – including digital signage – and usage reporting of high-quality live streaming or stored high-definition video content. Carousel customers now have access to this powerful platform, which can be deployed stand alone or leveraged to take advantage of previous investments in solutions such as video conferencing and telepresence. The flexibility of the BurstPoint VCP creates new opportunities for customers to incorporate enterprise video into a comprehensive corporate communications strategy.

“More and more organizations are realizing the power of video communications to change the way information is delivered to all constituents and are actively looking for technology solutions to make the most of this opportunity,” said Tom Racca, president and CEO, BurstPoint Networks. “Carousel is a trusted partner with the knowledge and expertise to reach those customers who want to be part of the video revolution.”

About BurstPoint Networks

Headquartered in Westborough, Mass., BurstPoint Networks is transforming the way organizations use video to communicate with employees, customers, partners, and other key constituents. Designed for high performance, reliability and scalability, the company’s fully integrated, enterprise-class software platform brings together the capture, distribution, reporting, and management capabilities required to meet the complex anywhere and anytime viewing demands of a highly distributed audience while providing cost savings and ease of use. For more information about BurstPoint Networks, please visit www.burstpoint.com. Please visit Video Vantage Point to learn more about how video is changing the face of communications and to subscribe to the site’s daily newsletter.

About Carousel

Carousel Industries designs, delivers and supports technology solutions that become the foundation of our clients’ businesses. This includes unified communications, virtualization, Voice over IP (VoIP), video conferencing and collaboration and data infrastructure solutions. Since Carousel was founded in 1992 we’ve grown an average of 30% - 50% per year with estimated 2010 revenues of over $200 million. Today we have over 3,500 customers, including 35 of the Fortune 100. Carousel has been recognized by VAR Magazine and CRN Magazine as one of the top technology integrators in the US and we’ve been listed in the Inc. 500 five times.

Carousel is headquartered in Exeter, RI with over 800 employees working from offices in 17 locations across the US.

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