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DES MOINES, Iowa; (July 18, 2006) – LightEdge Solutions, a leading provider of business-to-business managed voice, data and IT services, today announced the completion of a network infrastructure build-out that will add Ames, Iowa City and Dubuque to the LightEdge voice network. Becoming part of this network will allow businesses in these areas to cost-effectively access the features and functionality of the LightEdge voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) platform.

To enable this expansion, LightEdge has added redundant pairs of Cisco media gateways to several facilities. In all instances the devices have been configured as pairs with one acting as the primary device and the other acting as the failover. The addition of these devices has nearly doubled LightEdge’s service capacity available for the Iowa City market, and allows for a much greater reach and better reliability in Ames and Dubuque.

“Our goal with any infrastructure change is ultimately to improve our network so that LightEdge can better serve small and medium-sized businesses,” said Jim Masterson, chairman and chief executive officer of LightEdge. “This is a big win because customers will receive better coverage, reduced costs and enhanced reliability.”

The additional coverage applies to both the converged access and hosted PBX VoIP services provided by LightEdge. In a converged access VoIP implementation, the telephone lines are replaced by a private, high-speed connection to LightEdge. The phone handsets and PBX are left intact. Hosted PBX also involves replacing the phone lines with connectivity from LightEdge, but the company’s PBX and phone handsets are no longer utilized. All of the phone functionality, including voice mail, “Find me/Follow me” call routing, remote office and push-to-talk, is provided through the LightEdge VoIP platform via IP-enabled phones.

While VoIP has become popular for residential use, it has only very recently become of a high enough quality for businesses. The Dell’Oro Group anticipates that IP PBX sales will reach $2 billion by 2010, nearly a three-fold increase from 2005.

About LightEdge Solutions
LightEdge Solutions® empowers businesses to be more productive, mobile and effective with managed voice and data services delivered through a multi-homed, Cisco Powered Network data center environment. By out-tasking voice, data and IT services, small and medium sized businesses are able to realize unparalleled scalability and reliability with a lower total cost of ownership and reduced administration. For more information about services available for your business, visit LightEdge’s web site at www.lightedge.com.

LightEdge Solutions® and the LightEdge Solutions logo, and Scale-on-Demand™ are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of LightEdge Solutions, Inc. EdgeBCC™ and the EdgeBCC logo are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of the Edge Business Continuity Center. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

DES MOINES, Iowa; MOLINE, Ill (July 11, 2006) – LightEdge Solutions, a leading provider of business-to-business managed voice, data and IT services, today announced a strategic expansion enabling LightEdge to provide high quality voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) telephone and managed services to businesses in the Greater Peoria Market. This expansion comes as the result of a recent business combination with Internet Express, Inc. From this partnership, Lightedge Solutions has gained a redundant data network that will provide the backbone to deliver carrier-grade voice and data services in the Quad-Cities and Peoria.

“In reviewing trends, it’s obvious that VoIP is ready to explode. We have strategically built our network to allow us to scale for a high volume of business,” said Jim Masterson, chairman and chief executive officer of LightEdge Solutions. “With the Quad-Cities partnership, and now the expansion to Peoria, we are allowing new markets to tap into the VoIP platform and network infrastructure that is helping to support nearly 4,000 companies in the Midwest and Southwest.”

LightEdge offers both converged access VoIP and a fully hosted VoIP solution through a quality managed connection to LightEdge. Converged access enables a business to replace its phone lines with a private high-speed connection to LightEdge while existing handsets and the PBX device remain intact. In a hosted model, all of the traditional PBX features (i.e., voicemail and call-forwarding) are handled within the LightEdge VoIP platform to provide an additional level of disaster recovery. Calls are made over private high-speed connections via special IP phones. Users are able to control their personal phone features using a Web-based administration tool. Hybrid phone systems, consisting of both converged access and hosted VoIP, can be established based on the specific needs of the client.

As one of the few providers in Peoria to conduct calls through a completely private and managed infrastructure, LightEdge is able to offer some of the highest service level agreements and provide business-grade service free from latency or signal degradation. The VoIP infrastructure is upgraded regularly to enable new functionality as it is released for the platform.

As a comprehensive managed services provider, LightEdge will offer Peoria businesses a wide array of services that have not been available through a single company. In addition to VoIP, businesses will have access to cost-effective: high-speed business Internet services, IP wide area networking (WAN), managed backup, hosted Microsoft Exchange, dedicated servers and business continuity and disaster recovery services.

About LightEdge Solutions
LightEdge Solutions® empowers businesses to be more productive, mobile and effective with managed voice and data services delivered through a multi-homed, Cisco Powered Network data center environment. By out-tasking voice, data and IT services, small and medium sized businesses are able to realize unparalleled scalability and reliability with a lower total cost of ownership and reduced administration. For more information about services available for your business, visit LightEdge’s web site at www.lightedge.com.

LightEdge Solutions® and the LightEdge Solutions logo, and Scale-on-Demand™ are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of LightEdge Solutions, Inc. EdgeBCC™ and the EdgeBCC logo are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of the Edge Business Continuity Center. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

DES MOINES, Iowa —June 27, 2006—LightEdge Solutions, Inc., a leader in converged data networking, voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) and managed IT business services, today announced the commercial availability of its managed backup solution, providing businesses a structured risk management platform and maximum availability for mission-critical data.

LightEdge’s managed backup solution provides businesses with a cost-effective way to back up mission-critical data without the capital expense and administration required to build out an in-house network and storage server environment. Instead, any business can have its data backed up and stored remotely in LightEdge’s secure, redundant, carrier-class data center. Offsite storage provides an added level of security in case of a natural disaster or business interruption resulting in damage to an organization’s physical plant or property.

“We rely on LightEdge Solutions to provide managed backup services for the critical data stored in a health insurance database used by one of our clients,” said Lonnie Janecek, managing director of MarketSphere Consulting. “Due to the sensitive nature of the data, the security and availability requirements are extremely high. LightEdge provided what we needed, and more, with a backup service that meets the compliance requirements for HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). In addition to swift recovery time, the on-demand scalability ultimately allows us the flexibility to add additional clients.”

“We’re pleased that MarketSphere is able take advantage of our managed backup solution to create an immediate impact for their healthcare client,” said Jim Masterson, chairman and chief executive officer of LightEdge Solutions. “One of the reasons we built our network to industry-leading standards for security, reliability and availability is to make it easy for small and midsize businesses to quickly and cost-effectively implement the latest next generation technology solutions. Our managed backup solution is a proven model that can be deployed within a fraction of the time and cost of typical in-house solutions.”

Why Outsource Backup?
Small and medium businesses considering backup solutions face a tradeoff between cost and quality: the cost to secure and administer their own network and storage servers versus the quality, reliability and performance of the storage solution they choose to put in place. Traditionally, these businesses have had to deal with the following challenges:

• Tape backup systems that can be problematic in terms of high failure rates resulting in loss of critical data, the complexity of tape splits and partial backups, the time-intensive task of finding and restoring data and limited nightly backup and restore options. Moreover, these systems often require costly administrative resources to maintain;

• Difficulty in accurately estimating current and future data storage needs in order to deploy in-house systems necessary to accommodate business growth;

• Finding the right backup and storage solution to meet the changing demands of regulatory compliance placed on businesses.

In response to these customer challenges, LightEdge has developed an offsite backup solution that is available at several service levels and is flexible enough to meet the varying demands of virtually any size business.

LightEdge Managed Backup Options
With LightEdge managed backup, businesses choose among three service levels that are all remotely hosted in LightEdge’s secure, redundant data center.

• Hosted Disk-based Storage: A data backup solution stored directly to disk format which provides faster, more efficient and flexible recovery options than tape.

• Mirrored Storage: For a higher level of protection, data can be “mirrored” to a secondary LightEdge data center, ensuring data integrity in the event of a catastrophic failure or downtime in the primary facility.

• Archived Storage: A tape backup storage solution that provides an economical way to meet regulatory compliance and other long-term data requirements. Tapes are catalogued, archived in LightEdge’s secure data center and accessible when needed.

Benefits of LightEdge Managed Backup

About MarketSphere Consulting
MarketSphere Consulting is a premier business consulting firm with world-class, industry-leading consultants. The company provides top-quality consulting talent with an uncompromising position on flexibility, innovation and value generation. MarketSphere’s business-oriented, delivery-focused perspective helps clients achieve their strategic, operational and technology objectives. Learn more at  www.marketsphere.com.

About LightEdge Solutions
LightEdge Solutions® empowers businesses to be more productive, mobile and effective with managed voice and data services delivered through a multi-homed, Cisco Powered Network data center environment. By out-tasking voice, data and IT services, small and medium sized businesses are able to realize unparalleled scalability and reliability with a lower total cost of ownership and reduced administration. For more information about services available for your business, visit LightEdge’s web site at www.lightedge.com.

LightEdge Solutions® and the LightEdge Solutions logo, and Scale-on-Demand™ are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of LightEdge Solutions, Inc. EdgeBCC™ and the EdgeBCC logo are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of the Edge Business Continuity Center. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

SHAWNEE, Kan.; DES MOINES, Iowa (June 14, 2006) – Software developer, Perceptive Software Inc., and technology outsourcing firm, LightEdge Solutions, recently announced a partnership that will enable Perceptive Software to offer its document management, imaging and workflow software on an additional web-enabled application.

Perceptive Software is on the leading edge of a trend called Software as a Service (SaaS). As a hosted model, a SaaS-enabled application is a true “zero-footprint” solution which provides the benefit of the software without the infrastructure and maintenance normally associated with additional technology. The processing power, storage and maintenance necessary to run the application is provided through partner, LightEdge Solutions.

Scott Coons, president and CEO of Perceptive Software, said, “We’re pleased to expand our customers’ options and offer them the ability to acquire our solutions through an additional deployment strategy. SaaS-enabled software is effective, easy to implement and very cost-effective.”

The CEOs of both LightEdge Solutions and Perceptive Software were both recently honored by being named finalists in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year awards program for the Central Midwest region. “LightEdge chooses partners very carefully. It’s gratifying to see that all of the positive attributes that we saw in Perceptive Software were also recognized by Ernst & Young,” Jim Masterson, CEO of LightEdge Solutions, said, “Each company has incredible vision, drive and talent; together our synergy and potential is limitless.”

About SaaS
Software as a Solution, most notably used by Salesforce.com, is emerging as a trend which Gartner Group has declared as one of the top five technologies of 2005. The reason SaaS is becoming popular is due to sheer economics. Many companies need solutions but cannot afford the upfront cost to purchase, implement and maintain the infrastructure necessary to host them. SaaS eases implementation, provides scalability and removes hurdles associated with upfront costs.

About Perceptive Software
Perceptive Software, Inc., develops integrated document management, imaging and workflow software solutions that simplify business processes by delivering secure, digitized versions of paper and other electronic documents while leveraging existing applications. Customers in a broad range of industries worldwide have taken advantage of ImageNow, Perceptive Software’s flagship software offering. For more information, visit www.imagenow.com.

About LightEdge Solutions
LightEdge Solutions® empowers businesses to be more productive, mobile and effective with managed voice and data services delivered through a multi-homed, Cisco Powered Network data center environment. By out-tasking voice, data and IT services, small and medium sized businesses are able to realize unparalleled scalability and reliability with a lower total cost of ownership and reduced administration. For more information about services available for your business, visit LightEdge’s web site at www.lightedge.com.

LightEdge Solutions® and the LightEdge Solutions logo, and Scale-on-Demand™ are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of LightEdge Solutions, Inc. EdgeBCC™ and the EdgeBCC logo are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of the Edge Business Continuity Center. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

DES MOINES, Iowa—-June 7, 2006-LightEdge Solutions, Inc., a leader in converged data networking, voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) and managed IT business services, today announced its acquisition of the business division of NexGen Integrated Communications, a provider of business and residential Internet, voice and cable TV services in Urbandale, Iowa.

LightEdge acquires substantially all of NexGen’s commercial assets and the 700 customers related to its business Internet services in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Iowa City, Iowa and Omaha, Nebraska. All NexGen business customers will be integrated with LightEdge. NexGen retains all of the assets and the 3,000 customers subscribing to its residential service in Des Moines and will continue to service its residential customers under the NexGen name.

“This transaction further expands our coverage areas and strengthens our ability to serve business customers with next generation converged voice and data services,” said Jim Masterson, chairman and chief executive officer of LightEdge. “NexGen’s business assets provide us with direct access to telecom facilities that will enable us to deliver new services such as Ethernet over copper, which means that small and midsized businesses will have cost-effective access to voice and data speeds greater than traditional DSL or T-1 in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Omaha. With higher speeds and capacity, these businesses will also have access to LightEdge’s Fortune-500-caliber managed IT services like storage and online backup at affordable rates.”

The acquisition will provide NexGen business customers, as well as other small and midsize businesses in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Omaha, with access to advanced technology services such as VoIP phone systems, data networking and business services at affordable monthly rates. Since these services are available from LightEdge as hosted and fully managed solutions, businesses can avoid the significant up-front capital infrastructure investment typically required to deploy and maintain such systems.

All employees from both entities will be retained. LightEdge is currently hiring to meet continued demand for its services. Terms of the transaction will not be disclosed.

About NexGen Integrated Communications
NexGen Communications is a provider of residential phone, Internet and cable TV primarily to the MDU (multi-dwelling unit) market. NexGen provides complete carrier class voice and Internet services via their own network and have partnered with a large national cable TV provider as the only licensed MDU dealer in Iowa. NexGen delivers service that is outstanding, comprehensive, innovative, competitively priced and just plain astonishing.

About LightEdge Solutions
LightEdge Solutions® empowers businesses to be more productive, mobile and effective with managed voice and data services delivered through a multi-homed, Cisco Powered Network data center environment. By out-tasking voice, data and IT services, small and medium sized businesses are able to realize unparalleled scalability and reliability with a lower total cost of ownership and reduced administration. For more information about services available for your business, visit LightEdge’s web site at www.lightedge.com.

LightEdge Solutions® and the LightEdge Solutions logo, and Scale-on-Demand™ are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of LightEdge Solutions, Inc. EdgeBCC™ and the EdgeBCC logo are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of the Edge Business Continuity Center. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

DES MOINES, Iowa—-April 28, 2006-LightEdge Solutions, Inc., a leader in converged data networking, voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) and managed IT business services, today announced that chairman and chief executive officer Jim Masterson is a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2006 Award in the Central Midwest Region. According to Ernst & Young, the awards program was designed to recognize outstanding entrepreneurs on a regional, national and global level who are building and leading dynamic and growing businesses. Masterson was selected as a finalist by a panel of independent judges from the business community. Award winners will be announced at a special 20th anniversary gala event on Thursday, June 22, 2006 at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in Kansas City.

“This distinction is a direct result of the commitment, perseverance and hard work that the LightEdge team has put in over the past several years in delivering local businesses with best-in-class voice, data and IT technology services,” said Jim Masterson, chairman and CEO of LightEdge. “We’re very pleased to be recognized in this way, and it’s a tribute to the entire LightEdge team.”

Businesses engage LightEdge to deliver critical business systems and operational efficiencies using voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) phone systems, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions and advanced data networking technologies. LightEdge makes it possible for small and medium businesses to take advantage of Fortune-500-caliber converged voice, data and IT services at affordable monthly rates and without the large upfront capital investment or the long deployment cycles.

The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year awards program celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Awards are given to entrepreneurs who have demonstrated excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities.

Regional award winners are eligible for consideration for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2006 national program. Award winners in several national categories, as well as the overall national Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award winner, will be announced at the annual awards gala in Palm Springs, California on November 18, 2006. The overall national Entrepreneur Of The Year award recipient is then considered for the world event in Monte Carlo.

About the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards
The Entrepreneur Of The Year® awards program was created and is produced by professional services firm Ernst & Young LLP. As the first award of its kind, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who are building and leading dynamic and growing businesses. The program honors entrepreneurs through regional, national and global award programs in over 100 cities and 35 countries. For more information about the awards program, visit www.ey.com/eoy.

About LightEdge Solutions
LightEdge Solutions® empowers businesses to be more productive, mobile and effective with managed voice and data services delivered through a multi-homed, Cisco Powered Network data center environment. By out-tasking voice, data and IT services, small and medium sized businesses are able to realize unparalleled scalability and reliability with a lower total cost of ownership and reduced administration. For more information about services available for your business, visit LightEdge’s web site at www.lightedge.com.

LightEdge Solutions® and the LightEdge Solutions logo, and Scale-on-Demand™ are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of LightEdge Solutions, Inc. EdgeBCC™ and the EdgeBCC logo are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of the Edge Business Continuity Center. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

DES MOINES, Iowa—March 08, 2006—LightEdge Solutions, Inc., a leader in converged data networking, voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) and managed IT business services, today announced the successful completion of a 875-seat VoIP deployment integrating the phone systems of 13 Westside Community Schools and four administrative offices and facilities.

Westside Community School District realized that their traditional PBX phone system was reaching the end of its usefulness. The phone system was approaching capacity and was unable to support voicemail services that could improve communication between the teachers, administrators and staff located at different locations throughout the district. Westside required an affordable, scalable and efficient solution that would provide high quality of service and 24/7 support for its users.

Upgrading Westside’s existing PBX phone system would have required a significant capital investment in additional PBX equipment, as well as the associated ongoing maintenance and support to manage this equipment, at multiple locations throughout the district. Instead, Westside chose LightEdge to provide a district-wide, feature-rich VoIP phone system connecting all of its teachers, administrators and staff—all at an affordable monthly rate.

“We were contemplating a decision to upgrade our traditional PBX systems across the district to support the communications needs of our teachers, administrators and staff. Due to the high costs, complexity and technical resources required, we wanted to be sure to explore all of our options,” said Dr. Al Inzerello, assistant superintendent for finance and business at Westside Community Schools. “LightEdge gave us an affordable alternative. Their VoIP technology allowed us to improve our inter-school communications while mitigating technology risk, providing scalability for future growth and ensuring a high level of customer service and support to our users.”

“As one of the most progressive and respected school districts in the nation, Westside prides itself on embracing technology to empower its teachers, staff and students,” said Jim Masterson, chairman and chief executive officer of LightEdge Solutions. “Educational institutions often have limited funds and technical expertise to implement new technologies. Westside is taking a leadership role in adopting the latest in VoIP technology and putting it into practical use for a long term future.”

LightEdge’s hosted VoIP solution delivers the following benefits to Westside Community Schools:

• INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY. Improved worker and work group productivity through advanced call routing and handling features such as direct inward dial (DID), call forwarding and routing, unified messaging, integrated voice mail and conferencing, and one-click dialing. In addition, network administrators gain efficiencies through having a common platform for managing employees that alleviates the need to manage multiple complex components. For example, one of the greatest benefits of VoIP technology is that it enables administrators to perform move, additions and changes (MAC activity) in seconds.
• GEOGRAPHIC INDEPENDENCE. With LightEdge VoIP, organizations maintain industry-standard levels of communications services across geographically dispersed locations. Users and administrators get full access to all system features through an Internet or phone connection. For example, users and schools can be managed from any location, call transfer and conferencing can be performed from any location to another, extension dialing is possible from any geographic location, staff can work anywhere and appear to be in the office/school and employees can be monitored regardless of their physical location.
• IMPROVED NETWORK EFFICIENCY AND ECONOMICS. A more efficient, integrated VoIP infrastructure from LightEdge that supports both voice and data services on a single platform reduces the amount of network equipment required, as well as the support necessary to operate, administer and maintain such equipment. In today’s competitive environment, less equipment translates to reduced capital expenditures, which in turn can positively affect a business’ bottom line.
• DISASTER RECOVERY. Recent disastrous events have underscored the need for network redundancy and disaster recovery solutions that ensure business continuity. VoIP networks can be designed to reduce single points of failure and to enhance emergency response, enabling quick and effective communications during critical situations. LightEdge VoIP solutions provide organizations with disaster recovery services such as communication diversity, mobility, server redundancy and failover, alternate gateways, and advanced call handling and rerouting. In addition, all of LightEdge’s core network elements are redundant across multiple cities, and call routing is handled via multiple redundant paths.
• REDUCED TECHNOLOGY RISK. Organizations choosing to invest in LightEdge VoIP services can rest assured that their investment will bring continuing returns. With VoIP technology, organizations can effectively avoid technology obsolescence because LightEdge provides free technology upgrades. Regular technology upgrades enable businesses to provision new services as quickly as they are developed, or as they become necessary, to respond to changing business requirements. With LightEdge VoIP, the integrated nature of the VoIP platform avoids technology obsolescence in various areas, including switching technology, e-mail and conferencing servers, integrated voice response (IVR) servers, etc

“In addition to the business benefits, some of the most useful features used by our teachers and staff are direct extension dialing, the ability to receive voice messages on both their phones and through email as audio .WAV file attachments, remote access to the phone system, call forwarding and simultaneous ring, and a Web-based portal for managing call routing and handling,” said Inzerello.

The VoIP system was deployed to all 17 locations, including 13 schools, an alumni building, a service center, an administrative building and a community education center. The system has been installed and operating since August 2005.

About Westside Community School District
Located in the heart of Omaha, Nebraska, Westside Community School District is a nationally acclaimed public school district. The mission of the Westside Community School District, as an innovative educational system, is to ensure academic excellence and to serve the unique needs of all learners. Westside Community Schools offers excellence in education at all levels. More than 60 percent of Westside teachers and administrators have masters, specialists or doctoral degrees. For more information, visit the Westside Community Schools Web site at www.westside66.org.

About LightEdge Solutions
LightEdge Solutions® empowers businesses to be more productive, mobile and effective with managed voice and data services delivered through a multi-homed, Cisco Powered Network data center environment. By out-tasking voice, data and IT services, small and medium sized businesses are able to realize unparalleled scalability and reliability with a lower total cost of ownership and reduced administration. For more information about services available for your business, visit LightEdge’s web site at www.lightedge.com.

LightEdge Solutions® and the LightEdge Solutions logo, and Scale-on-Demand™ are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of LightEdge Solutions, Inc. EdgeBCC™ and the EdgeBCC logo are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of the Edge Business Continuity Center. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

GAITHERSBURG, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 25, 2006–BroadSoft, Inc., the leading provider of VoIP application software, today announced that LightEdge Solutions, a leader in converged data networking, VoIP and managed IT business services, has selected BroadSoft’s BroadWorks® VoIP application platform to deliver its high-quality VoIP services. LightEdge will use the BroadWorks platform to deliver hosted PBX and trunk replacement services to small and mid-sized businesses in the Midwest and Southwest.

LightEdge cited BroadSoft’s position as the industry leader in VoIP application software as well as a comprehensive call feature set as reasons for selecting the BroadWorks application platform. In addition, BroadWorks integrates well with third-party software used by LightEdge’s business customers for customer relationship management (CRM), back-office operating systems and messaging.

“BroadSoft is at the forefront of developing platform solutions to support the growing demand for VoIP,” said Jeff Springborn, president and COO of LightEdge Solutions. “Ultimately, our goal is to empower our customers with scalable, on-demand, Fortune 500-level voice and data services. BroadSoft’s clear vision and industry leadership, combined with its BroadWorks platform allow us to confidently deliver the exact advanced call features that our customers demand. A key benefit to customers lies in the inherent disaster recovery and business continuity features of the VoIP system. In the event of a natural disaster or network outage, a user can quickly, easily and securely connect to the VoIP system through any Internet connection from any location.”

“As a leader in providing converged network and IT services, LightEdge offers its customers industry-leading levels of reliability in and productivity through VoIP service,” said Michael Tessler, president and CEO of BroadSoft. “This deployment attests to BroadSoft’s leadership in the development of VoIP application software. Through our extensive experience, we are well-equipped to provide service providers with high-quality products, services, and collaborative relationships to help them grow their businesses and deliver the VoIP services their customers need.”

LightEdge’s on-demand service delivery model enables small and midsize businesses to take advantage of converged network and IT services to increase operational efficiency and scale for growth–all at a fraction of the upfront capital costs. Rather than making significant investments in infrastructure, applications or technical resources, businesses can sign up for the level of technology services they need at affordable monthly rates. In addition to its VoIP services, LightEdge provides hosted storage, disaster recovery and business continuity, wide area networking (WAN) and meshed IP WAN, managed security, business Internet and remote access services.

BroadSoft’s IMS-compliant BroadWorks provides a comprehensive range of VoIP applications, including hosted PBX, IP Centrex, mobile PBX, business trunking and residential broadband services fully integrated into a single hosted communications platform. BroadWorks is uniquely capable of providing these applications with the reliability, redundancy, scalability and regulatory capabilities required to deliver carrier-class service.

About Broadsoft
BroadSoft’s VoIP application software is revolutionizing the delivery of hosted telephony and multimedia services. Its flagship BroadWorks® technology empowers wireless and wireline carriers to deliver next-generation voice and multimedia applications and advanced features that increase revenue, enhance competitive differentiation and elevate customer satisfaction. BroadSoft’s family of carrier-class software products delivers the scale, open architecture and reliability that the world’s leading telecommunications companies demand to serve mission-critical enterprise and residential broadband customers. BroadSoft’s customer base of 150 network operators, including BellSouth, Korea Telecom, MCI, Singtel, Telstra, Verizon and XO Communications, leads the industry with more than 1,750,000 lines deployed.

About LightEdge Solutions
LightEdge Solutions® empowers businesses to be more productive, mobile and effective with managed voice and data services delivered through a multi-homed, Cisco Powered Network data center environment. By out-tasking voice, data and IT services, small and medium sized businesses are able to realize unparalleled scalability and reliability with a lower total cost of ownership and reduced administration. For more information about services available for your business, visit LightEdge’s web site at www.lightedge.com.

LightEdge Solutions® and the LightEdge Solutions logo, and Scale-on-Demand™ are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of LightEdge Solutions, Inc. EdgeBCC™ and the EdgeBCC logo are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of the Edge Business Continuity Center. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

DES MOINES, Iowa—January 24, 2006—LightEdge Solutions, Inc., a leader in converged data networking, voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) and managed IT business services, and Internet Express, a Moline, Illinois-based provider of business and residential Internet services in the Quad-Cities area, today announced the joining of the two companies’ resources and technology services offerings. The combined entity will operate under the name of LightEdge Solutions.

“This transaction enters us into the prosperous and growing Quad-Cities market where Internet Express is already well established,” said Jim Masterson, chairman and chief executive officer of LightEdge Solutions. “We are looking forward to the opportunity to combine our technologies and services to provide a more robust and advanced range of VoIP, data networking and IT business services to local businesses. Internet Express and LightEdge are a great fit. Our culture and philosophies are very well aligned.”

Internet Express currently provides business and residential customers with reliable, redundant high-speed Internet access services. The joining of the two companies will provide Internet Express customers, as well as other small and midsize businesses in the Quad-Cities area, with access to advanced technology services such as VoIP phone systems, data networking and business services at affordable monthly rates. Since these services are available from LightEdge as hosted and fully managed solutions, businesses can avoid the significant up-front capital infrastructure investment typically required to deploy and maintain such systems.

“Internet Express customers and local businesses will now have a larger array of Fortune-500-caliber technology services and options available to them at affordable monthly fees,” said Kris Harris, founder of Internet Express. “We were impressed with LightEdge’s technology offerings and believe their high standards for customer care are a good match for our customer base. We look forward to continuing to serve our customer base with outstanding service and support.”

All employees from both entities remain intact and, in fact, LightEdge is currently hiring to meet continued demand for its services. Terms of the transaction will not be disclosed.

About Internet Express
Internet Express, Inc. provides DSL and dial-up Internet access for businesses and residential areas, dedicated high-speed Internet connections, wireless Internet connectivity, virtual hosting, Web site hosting, server co-location, dedicated server solutions and hosting of e-commerce solutions. The company invests resources in the latest technology and training to maintain the highest level of service available in the marketplace, and is committed to continually upgrading its capabilities as technologies evolve. Founded in 1995, the company is headquartered in Moline, Illinois.

About LightEdge Solutions
LightEdge Solutions® empowers businesses to be more productive, mobile and effective with managed voice and data services delivered through a multi-homed, Cisco Powered Network data center environment. By out-tasking voice, data and IT services, small and medium sized businesses are able to realize unparalleled scalability and reliability with a lower total cost of ownership and reduced administration. For more information about services available for your business, visit LightEdge’s web site at www.lightedge.com.

LightEdge Solutions® and the LightEdge Solutions logo, and Scale-on-Demand™ are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of LightEdge Solutions, Inc. EdgeBCC™ and the EdgeBCC logo are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of the Edge Business Continuity Center. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

DES MOINES, Iowa—August 10, 2005—LightEdge Solutions, today announced it has attained Gold Certified status in the Microsoft Partner Program, recognizing LightEdge Solutions’ expertise and total impact in the technology marketplace. As a Gold Certified partner, LightEdge Solutions has demonstrated expertise with Microsoft technologies and proven ability to meet customers’ needs. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners receive a rich set of benefits, including access, training and support, giving them a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Less than 5% of all Microsoft Partners worldwide are of the highest Gold Certified status.

“We are extremely pleased to have attained Gold Certified status in the Microsoft Partner Program. This allows us to clearly promote our best-in-class integrated and managed business platform, which consists of our VoIP (Hosted PBX), IBM Blades/ SANS data storage, Meshed WAN-IP and Microsoft business applications.” said Jim Masterson, CEO. “The benefits provided through our Gold Certified status will allow us to continue to enhance the offerings that we provide to our small- and mid-size business customers.”

“Customers are looking for partner companies that can bridge the gap between their business demands and technology capabilities. They need to trust in someone that can act as an expert adviser for their long-term strategic technology plans. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners, which have certified expertise and direct training and support from Microsoft, can build a positive customer experience with our technologies,” said Allison Watson, vice president of the Worldwide Partner Sales and Marketing Group at Microsoft Corp. “Today, Microsoft recognizes LightEdge Solutions as a new Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for demonstrating its expertise in providing customer satisfaction with Microsoft products and technology.”

About LightEdge Solutions
LightEdge Solutions® empowers businesses to be more productive, mobile and effective with managed voice and data services delivered through a multi-homed, Cisco Powered Network data center environment. By out-tasking voice, data and IT services, small and medium sized businesses are able to realize unparalleled scalability and reliability with a lower total cost of ownership and reduced administration. For more information about services available for your business, visit LightEdge’s web site at www.lightedge.com.

LightEdge Solutions® and the LightEdge Solutions logo, and Scale-on-Demand™ are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of LightEdge Solutions, Inc. EdgeBCC™ and the EdgeBCC logo are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of the Edge Business Continuity Center. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

DES MOINES, Iowa—April 27, 2005—LightEdge Solutions, Inc., a Midwest leader in data networking, VoIP and managed business services, today announced that they have been included as a “Cool Vendor” in the Gartner Inc. report “Cool Vendors in Network Services.” Gartner is one of the country’s premier independent analysts in the areas of information technology and telecommunications. The report was written by Gartner analysts Katja Ruud, Steve Blood, Susan Richardson, Lisa Unden, Eric Paulak, Kathleen M. Adams, Ted Chamberlin, Eric Goodness, Jay E. Pultz.

Gartner selected seven industry leading companies from around the world in the Network services space for the “Cool Vendor” distinction. Gartner defines a cool vendor as a vendor that offers technologies or solutions that are:

• Innovative — enable users to do things they couldn’t do before
• Impactful — have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology)
• Intriguing — have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in the past six months or so

“We are very pleased to have been recognized as one of Gartner’s Cool Vendors,” said Jim Masterson, chief executive officer and president of LightEdge Solutions. “Gartner is well known for their ability to recognize market trendsetters. We see this award as confirmation that LightEdge is exceptionally well-positioned to provide long-term value to our customers in the areas of voice (Voice-over Internet-protocol), networking, managed IT services, and hosted business application services.”

LightEdge’s Service-on-Demand approach exploits a utility-based, monthly “Pay-as-You-Use” pricing model with minimal upfront customer capital costs for communication & IT Services.

About Gartner, Inc.
Gartner, Inc. is the leading provider of research and analysis on the information technology and telecommunications industries. The independence and objectivity in research and advice are hallmarks of the Gartner brand. Gartner founded the technology research and advisory industry on these principles in 1979. With more than 10,000 clients and 75 locations worldwide, they remain the clear market leader.

About LightEdge Solutions
LightEdge Solutions® empowers businesses to be more productive, mobile and effective with managed voice and data services delivered through a multi-homed, Cisco Powered Network data center environment. By out-tasking voice, data and IT services, small and medium sized businesses are able to realize unparalleled scalability and reliability with a lower total cost of ownership and reduced administration. For more information about services available for your business, visit LightEdge’s web site at www.lightedge.com.

LightEdge Solutions® and the LightEdge Solutions logo, and Scale-on-Demand™ are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of LightEdge Solutions, Inc. EdgeBCC™ and the EdgeBCC logo are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of the Edge Business Continuity Center. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.