Amedia Unveils New and Unique Triple Play Solution for Carriers Deploying Fiber-to-the-Node Access.

HOLMDEL, N.J. -- Amedia's QoStream(TM) Family of Products Now Allow for Extremely Efficient Evolution from FTTN to FTTP in Response to Market Needs

Amedia Networks, Inc. (OTCBB: AANI), a provider of Ethernet ultra-broadband solutions for the Triple Play Access Market, today announced a unique product option for its QoStream family of access products: a VDSL-based copper interface for its AS5000 Aggregator Switch and PG1000 Premises Gateway. This option is intended to allow carriers to provide voice, data, and video services (Triple Play) over their existing copper telephone wires leading into their subscribers' premises. The option complements the Fiber-To-The-Premises (FTTP) access solution that the company announced last year by enabling a Fiber-To-The-Node (FTTN) capability for copper based networks. The QoStream products are the first products in the market to offer this level of economic and flexible solution in support of bundled tripled play services.

With the new VDSL option, Amedia will be able to offer service providers, including those that currently deploy DSL services, the capability to install DMT-coded VDSL line cards in the AS5000 in order to provide standards-based Ethernet access over copper twisted pairs. Whether configured with fiber-interfaced ESON (Ethernet Switched Optical Network) line cards, or copper pair VDSL line cards, or both, the AS5000 will continue to support all of its existing capabilities, including:

--auto-configuration of attached Premises Gateways,

--IP & Ethernet multi-casting,

--resilience and recovery via link aggregation and spanning tree protocols, and

--the industry-leading means of offering Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees and per-VLAN policing.

Depending on the distance between the node and the premises, the VDSL-optioned QoStream products will be able to offer between 20 Mbps to 100 Mbps over copper wires, both into and out of premises. For service providers preferring "home run solutions," the AS5000 can reside in a Central Office in addition to residing at a remote node in the outside plant.

Commenting on the significance of Amedia's integrated ESON-VDSL capabilities, Joe Savage, Managing Director, of leading telecommunications market analysis firm Telecom ThinkTank, Inc. noted, "Service providers are choosing incremental deployments of fiber into the access network. Using existing copper for triple play offerings focuses their capital expenditures on areas that yield high subscriber take rates. The ability to launch both VDSL and fiber from the AS5000 gives service providers a method for seamless transition from FTTN to FTTP networks."

With ESON cards, carriers can serve subscribers up to 90 km from a Central Office - the longest distance in the industry. Carriers will have the flexibility to integrate Amedia's QoStream products into their existing networks since they are designed to be compliant with IEEE 802.3ah, the Ethernet in the First Mile standard, as well as with ITU-T G993.1, the VDSL standard. This means that the PG1000 can interoperate with any device that is complaint with these Ethernet standards.

"This is not just a new type of DSLAM," commented Frank Galuppo, President and CEO of Amedia. "This VDSL option will allow a service provider to continue to use their existing copper that feeds a home or business, but gives them a very efficient evolution plan to upgrade the neighborhood to fiber when it makes sense, without throwing away all of the equipment and cabinets."

Continuing, Galuppo added, "When a service provider needs to upgrade access to as few as eight subscribers at a time from copper to fiber, all that they need to do at the node or Central Office is swap out a VDSL line card with an ESON line card, and with virtually no break in service, they're deploying 100 Mbps of dedicated symmetrical bandwidth to each premise. Both VDSL and ESON line cards co-exist in the same AS5000 chassis which has enough backplane bandwidth to support 100 Mbps per subscriber regardless of the Ethernet medium. Service providers can even use the same network management tools."

Amedia will demonstrate these capabilities at this year's Supercomm event in Chicago from June 6-9, 2005. The QoStream VDSL line card option will be generally available for shipment in third quarter of this year.

About Amedia Networks

Amedia designs, develops, and implements Ethernet solutions for the ultra-broadband access market. These secure and flexible solutions are used by carriers deploying Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and/or Fiber-to-the-Node infrastructures to offer their residential and business subscribers high-speed data, video, and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services in a highly cost effective manner. For more information about Amedia Networks please visit www.amedia.com.

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