New Advisory Board To Provide Industry Expertise and Business Guidance to Enhance Critical Links Corporate and Product Development Strategies

Coimbra, Portugal, July 26th, 2006 – Critical Links, an international networking technology company, today announced the formation of its Strategic Advisory Board and its initial four members. The Critical Links Strategic Advisory Board is comprised of business and technology leaders that bring critical insight and business knowledge that will help shape business and product development.

“Critical Links addresses a growing market opportunity for Telco’s and ISPs to deliver value-added managed services to their business broadband customers, increasing per subscriber revenues and providing customer retention”. states Mr. João Carreira, CEO of Critical Links. “Our products are technically and technologically significantly ahead of its competitors. Critical Links innovative business and product distribution models are also a major distinctive factor. Critical Links is well positioned to capture a significant share of this market through its unique systems approach and combination of features, price and channel strategy.”

“Critical Links addresses a growing market opportunity for Telco’s and ISPs to deliver value-added managed services to their business broadband customers, increasing per subscriber revenues and providing customer retention”.

Critical Links is launching worldwide the award-winning edgeBOX 4.0, an innovative and cost-effective networking device providing complete converged voice and data network services for SME’s and Branch Offices. edgeBOX has been identified as a key player in the emerging “Business Gateway” market by leading analyst house InStat and won the Best Broadband Appliance award at the World Broadband Forum in 2005. It was recently selected a finalist by IDG Communications’ Techworld for its 2006 “Small Business Product of the Year”.

Members of Critical Links Strategic Advisory Board
Members of Critical Links Strategic Advisory Board include:

Mr. Antonio Borges - Borges is a Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs International. He joined Goldman Sachs in September 2000 as Managing Director & Vice Chairman. His responsibilities include investment banking, leadership development and strategy.
Prior to this he was Dean of INSEAD between 1993 and 2000. He also taught at the University of Lisbon, Portuguese Catholic University and Stanford University. Between 1990 and 1993 Antonio Borges was Vice Governor of Portugal’s Central Bank. is Chairman of the European Corporate Governance Institute

Mr. Carlos Vasconcellos Cruz - Cruz acts presently as a strategy and international business development consultant for international corporations. He is also a Senior Advisor of Banco Privado Português. From 2004 to 2006 he was a Board Member of Portugal Telecom, President & CEO of PT Móveis (TMN, Vivo) and President and CEO of PT Investimentos Internacionais (24 companies in 14 countries), among other duties in PT Group. Before this he was President & CEO of PT Comunicações, President and CEO of Telesp Celular Brazil, President and CEO of Global Telecom Brazil, President of Tradecom units in Brazil, Argentina and Portugal, member of the Worldwide Board of Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, President and CEO of D&B GMC (D&B unit for its biggest clients) and Executive Vice President of D&B Europe.

Mr. Diogo da Silveira - Silveira is presently the CEO of Oni, an alternative Telecom Provider in Portugal. From 2002 to 2005 he was an executive board member of Sonae Indústria SGPS. His responsibilities included: Worldwide IT areas, being CEO of Isoroy in France, board member of Glunz AG & Tafisa UK. From 1999 to 2002 he was an executive board member of Sonaecom responsible for IT, Fixed Line and Internet areas, being CEO of Novis, board member of Optimus and WeDo Consulting.

Mr. Pedro Colaço - Colaço has been VP Product management and Marketing at Corvil Inc in Ireland. Before Corvil, he was Vice-President of Marketing for Expand Networks, a leading vendor of application traffic management solutions based in New Jersey, USA from where he managed the company’s global marketing activities. Before joining Expand Networks in 2001, Pedro was director of product management and marketing for Unisphere Networks, Inc., where he was responsible for developing and managing the market strategy for all next-generation IP voice products including network and service management. Prior to Unisphere, Pedro was director of product management for Siemens
Information & Communication Networks, Inc. where he held increasingly senior roles at offices in Germany, Portugal and the United States.

About Critical Links
Critical Links (www.critical-links.com) is an international networking software company and provider of edgeBOX, a converged multi-function device or business gateway targeted at SMBs and Enterprise Branch Offices. edgeBOX is available in a wide range of scalable hardware platforms, including standard servers, and has the best feature to price ratio in the market, making it the ideal choice for cost savvy SMBs. edgeBOX typically replaces 4-7 single-function devices required to deliver an equivalent set of services, fully remotely managed, with significantly lower TCO. Network integrators market edgeBOX to enterprises for deployment at their branch offices, while Telecom Service Providers and Managed Services Providers offer it as a service to their SMB customers.
edgeBOX is available from business partners in the UK, Brazil, India, Singapore, China, South Africa and Portugal. Critical Links provides support and update services that keep edgeBOX secure and reliable.
Critical Links is a wholly owned subsidiary of Critical Software SA, established in 1998, with over 100 employees, headquarters in Portugal and subsidiary offices in the UK and USA. The company is CMMI Level 3 compliant and has a reputation for producing mission and business critical networking and telecoms solutions for the telecoms, public sector, industry, aerospace and defence markets, with customers such as Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Infineon Technologies, NASA, EADS and ESA.

For more information:
Carlos Taveira; Email: carlos-taveira@criticalsoftware.com