Peerless Network Selects Shango Cloud Services Platform for Service Orchestration

Chicago, IL and Austin, TX – November 1, 2011 – Peerless Network, a leading telecommunications provider that simplifies the interconnection of voice, data and signaling across disparate telecommunications networks, and Shango, a Cloud Service enabler for today’s service providers, announced that Shango is powering Peerless Network’s new Service Orchestration and Service Activation system.

Deploying Shango for the automation of telephone number management and service activation, Peerless will leverage its next generation switching infrastructure to expand its service portfolio and meet growing customer demand. By providing end-to-end service automation and end-customer self management, Shango allows service providers to scale past the limitations of legacy OSS systems and manual processes.

David Walsh, President of Shango, said, “Since we announced the platform earlier this year, Shango has sparked an enormous amount of interest from customers who want to scale their businesses without increasing operational costs. Providers now require the rapid on-boarding of new services and features that their customers are demanding. Shango provides them the service platform to enable that.”

“We selected Shango to automate the provisioning and management of our telephone number origination services because of its ability to help us deliver customer value on both of these fronts,” said Scott Kell, Executive Vice President of Engineering and Operations for Peerless.

“The platform’s ability to scale up to millions of enterprise customers, and the breadth of the services it can provision and manage allow Peerless to service the growing demand for our services that remove many of the barriers associated with connecting to the Public Switched Telephone Network,” said Kell.

Added Walsh, “Shango offers the fastest time to market of any service orchestration platform available today, enabling service providers to avoid time-consuming custom development while transforming legacy telecom services into cloud enabled applications”.

For more information on Peerless Network, go to: www.peerlessnetwork.com

For more information on Shango, go to : www.shango.com

About Peerless Network, Inc.

Peerless Network is a privately held company focused on simplifying the interconnection process for telecommunications service providers and end users alike. Peerless provides a broad range of services with reliable and cost-effective solutions to seamlessly access a myriad of networks regardless of protocols, traffic types, or regulatory jurisdiction. Headquartered in Chicago, Peerless Network currently offers service in Tier 1 and Tier 2 markets in 36 states and over one hundred Local access Transport areas (LATAs). For more information, please visit www.peerlessnetwork.com.

About Shango.

Shango, from StarView Solutions, is an Integration-as-a-Service Platform that unifies the way Telecom Operators access and manage their ever expanding number of 3rd party technologies. The platform offers a standards-based, multi-tenanted solution to rapidly automate processes related to activating, managing and onboarding network services and applications. Based in Austin, TX, Starview's 400+ customers include many Tier 1 global telcos, Cable MSO's, VoIP and Mobile carrriers, Hosted UCaaS providers, CLECs, and applications service providers. More information is available at www.shango.com and www.starviewsolutions.com

For more information, please contact:

Matt Batt
Pipeline Media Relations (Peerless Network)
(847) 201-6588 ext. 222
matt@pipelinemediarelations.com

Chelsea Kindley
StarView Solutions
+1 (512) 366-3939
ckindley@shango.com