MicroCorp Names Smoothstone´s Shawn Nauert 2007 Channel Manager of the Year

LOUISVILLE, Ky (October 16, 2007) — MicroCorp, at its Fourth Annual “One–on–One” event, announced that Smoothstone IP Communication´s Shawn Nauert is MicroCorp´s 2007 Channel Manager of the Year. MicroCorp´s Channel Manager of the Year award recognizes the service provider or vendor channel manager that has done the best job promoting the partnership between MicroCorp and his or her company. Shawn Nauert, Smoothstone´s Director of Sales, is responsible for the relationship between Smoothstone and MicroCorp. The One–on–One” event exists to allow MicroCorp´s service providers, such as Smoothstone, the chance to meet one–on–one” with MicroCorp´s VARS, systems integrators and agents.

“Since Smoothstone and MicroCorp announced their partnership a year and a half ago, the two companies have signed over $2 million in new business,” said Shawn Nauert. “It´s an honor to receive MicroCorp´s Channel Manager of the Year award and a pleasure to work with them every day. There´s no doubt that this partnership is still just beginning to flourish and even more mutual success is in our future.”

“When we met Smoothstone and saw their enterprise class IP communication solutions, we immediately became a client ourselves,” said Scott Eaton, MicroCorp´s Vice President of Sales. “The only higher praise we can give a service provider is to recommend them to our clients. Shawn´s work with our agents to bring Smoothstone´s solutions to our clients has been truly outstanding and worthy of this award. And, just as importantly, Smoothstone´s solutions have lived up to our agents´ and clients´ high standards and individual needs.”


About MicroCorp:

MicroCorp, Inc. is a telecommunications convergence company that provides multi–vendor solutions to businesses. The company´s customers receive best of breed solutions from vendors such as Sprint, Qwest, MCI, Global Crossing and Smoothstone IP Communications. MicroCorp distributes its products nationally, via a network of over 1,500 employees, agents, system integrators and VARs. Founded in 1986, MicroCorp is a privately held company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, visit www.microcorp.com or call (770) 649.1919.


About Smoothstone IP Communications:

Smoothstone IP Communications is a nationwide provider of unified IP communications services to mid-sized enterprises. Smoothstone delivers Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), IP trunking, unified threat management, MPLS networking, contact center solutions, messaging and advanced collaboration tools as a unified suite of managed services and cloud based applications. Smoothstone´s scalable, on–demand applications & services can be integratedwith a customer´s existing network and telecommunications infrastructure, operational processes and employee activities, enabling a customer to migrate to unified IP communications as their business requirements dictate. For more information, visit www.smoothstone.com or call (800) 773.3037.