IONA's Artix Powers Aepona's Universal Service Platform

Aepona's Standards-based Service Delivery Platform Speeds Time to Market for Telecommunications Carriers

DUBLIN, Ireland & WALTHAM, Mass. - Jan. 9, 2007- IONA® Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA), a world leader in distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure solutions for performance-demanding IT environments, today announced that Aepona, the leading supplier of products and solutions for the Service Network to telecoms operators globally, has selected Artix™, IONA's Extensible Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Artix provides crucial, standards-based SOA enablement capabilities for Aepona's Universal Service Platform, allowing Tier 1 operators to more easily offer new services to customers, independent of underlying network and application resources.

Aepona selected Artix following a comprehensive review of available middleware and SOA-enablement technology. In addition to support for the standards driving today's telecommunications industry, such as Parlay/X, Artix demonstrated a strong capability to deliver the performance, scalability and high availability requirements of Tier 1 operators. Artix is being used to expose a diverse and complex set of interfaces found throughout the multi-vendor IT environments typical of the telecommunications industry. The use of Artix in the Universal Service Platform will help Aepona's customers simplify the deployment of new services and speed time to market.

"Artix uniquely provides scalability and qualities of service demanded by network operators as they begin to launch critical new revenue generating services from their networks," said Kieran Dalton, CTO, Aepona. "Artix is a technology neutral product able to support the wide set of standards found in our customers' IT environments, and when combined with IONA's expertise in the telecommunications industry, Artix was the obvious choice."

"The telecommunications industry is an early adopter of SOA due to the distributed nature of telecom environments, coupled with the requirement to offer competitive new services to subscribers on a timely basis, at significantly lower costs." said Peter Zotto, CEO, IONA Technologies. "We are pleased to be delivering Artix, our differentiated distributed SOA enablement solution, to Aepona to meet the demanding performance requirements of their customers."

About IONA

For more than a decade, IONA® Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA) has been a world leader in delivering high-performance integration solutions for Global 2000 IT environments. IONA pioneered standards-based integration with its CORBA-based Orbix® products. Artix™, IONA's extensible Enterprise Service Bus, enables customers to leverage service-oriented architecture to streamline and modernize IT environments. The Celtix™ family of open source distributed SOA infrastructure products allows customers to take advantage of the economic benefits associated with the use of open source software

IONA is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts and offices worldwide. For additional information about IONA, visit our Web site at http://www.iona.com.

About Aepona

Headquartered in the UK with regional offices across the world, Aepona is at the forefront of the evolution towards better, more service-rich communications networks. The company is a leading provider of application-led products and expert services to telecommunications operators globally, allowing them to rapidly deploy profitable new services across fixed-line, mobile and SIP/IMS networks. Aepona possesses a unique combination of expertise in both telecoms infrastructure and IT, and its solutions have been chosen by Tier 1 operators such as France Telecom/Orange, KPN, Sprint, E-Plus, Vimpelcom, Eircom and Bridge Mobile Alliance.

IONA, IONA Technologies, the IONA logo, Orbix, High Performance Integration, Artix, Celtix, Celtix Enterprise and Making Software Work Together are trademarks or registered trademarks of IONA Technologies PLC and/or its subsidiaries. CORBA is a trademark or registered trademark of the Object Management Group, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks that may appear herein are the property of their respective owners.

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