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Amedia to Deliver First-Ever GPON Home Gateway with Built-In Home Networking and Media Library.


HG-G1000 to Combine Capabilities of a Broadband Home Router with an Optical Network Terminal, Offering a Single Appliance for Fiber-to-the-Premises Connections Which Meets Full Home Networking and In-Home Media Distribution Needs

EATONTOWN, N.J. -- Amedia Networks, Inc. (OTC OTC

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 BB: AANI), a provider of next generation media gateways to distribute and manage ultra-broadband triple-play services in the home, today announced the development of the world's first GPON See PON.  (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) gateway with built-in home networking capabilities and a personal media library. The HG-G1000 is being designed to provide the integrated functionality of an in-home Broadband Home Router (BHR BHR Bahrain (ISO Country code)
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), an outdoor Optical Network Terminal (ONT ONT Ontario (old acronym - ON is now frequently used)
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), and integrated battery backup. Simply put, telecommunications companies can offer the HG-G1000 as a single, "in-home" gateway appliance for subscribers - with no required outdoor-hardened optical or electrical components. This significantly reduces installation costs, relative to the multiple equipment unit (ONT plus BHR plus battery backup) solution, by eliminating outdoor installation and media required to interconnect multiple products, while also providing means to utilize existing home television and telephone wiring within the connected home.

According to a recent report by Infonetics Research, the worldwide PON (Passive Optical Network) An optical point-to-multipoint access network. There are no optical repeaters or other active devices in a PON, hence the name "passive.  Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH (Fiber To The Home) See FTTP. ) subscribers doubled from 2004 to 2005, and is projected to grow from 4.1 million in 2005 to 38 million in 2009. In aggregate, the firm predicts the Bells could spend $3 billion to $5 billion on GPON gear alone for U.S. deployments through 2010.

"Service Providers are deploying fiber to the home in order to meet the ever increasing demands for next generation services, including IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) Also called "TV over IP," IPTV delivers scheduled TV programs and video-on-demand (VOD) via the IP protocol and digital streaming techniques used to watch video on the Internet. , high definition television programming, video on demand, interactive gaming and VOIP (Voice Over IP) A digital telephone service that uses the public Internet as well as private backbones instead of the traditional telephone network. Many companies, including Vonage, 8x8 and AT&T (CallVantage), typically offer calling within the country for a . Adding to customer expectations is the increasing use of the Internet for video and music downloads. GPON will give service providers the flexibility to meet these demands," said Amedia President, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , and Director Frank Galuppo. "Our GPON gateway is being designed to make this transition as smooth as possible from the perspectives of both carriers and subscribers."

The HG-G1000 offers carriers a versatile, cost-effective endpoint while also providing MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance The Multimedia over Coax Alliance develops specifications for home networking over in-home coaxial cable, which is commonly used for antenna connections to TVs and radios, and cable TV. ), Ethernet, and wireless capabilities.

"The intelligence and versatility we have built into the HG-G1000 provides carriers with more revenue-generating service delivery options, and in-depth control over them," added Mr. Galuppo

The HG-G1000 is coupled with Amedia's new Broadband Entertainment Center, which significantly enhances the capability of the HG-G1000 beyond a traditional gateway to a true multimedia control point within the home. It will have a built-in software API to support the development and delivery of proprietary or third-party software programs as well as networked applications to subscribers, such as web surfing, in-home messaging, remote home monitoring and control, a virtual family calendar, and other innovations. Utilizing a web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you.  interface from any television or monitor, users can browse the Internet as well as download, organize, store, or playback multimedia such as videos, digital pictures, music, voice messages, and much more. Additionally, the GPON BHR has four wired LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used.  interfaces with 10/100/1000 BASE T auto-negotiating, which supports GbE for client devices capable of communicating at that rate.

GPON provides bandwidth almost 4 times that of the current BPON See PON.  deployments, increasing bandwidth to 2.4 gigabits per second (gbps) downstream and 1.2 gbps upstream. This increase in speed over existing BPONs (Broadband Passive Optical Networks), which support 622mbps of downstream bandwidth and 155mbps upstream, will give telecom carriers the capacity to deliver IPTV and other HD television programming, as well as other new revenue-generating triple-play services to the home.

Amedia plans to begin Beta testing of the new HG-G1000 with carrier customers by mid-2007.

About Amedia Networks

Amedia Networks, Inc. (OTC BB: AANI) provides next generation residential media gateways to distribute and manage high-quality voice, high-definition video, and high-speed data services throughout the networked home. The Amedia residential gateway offers a single, compact, configurable device with the collective functionality of a modem, wireless access point, router, VoIP adapter, and family firewall - all in one. In addition, it features external media storage and a built-in operating system for carriers to continuously develop and deliver new, ultra-broadband applications to the home. The company is led by an executive team with a long and proven history in the voice, data, and telecom industries, and its core technologies have been co-developed by Lucent Technologies, Inc.'s renowned Bell Laboratories unit. For more information, visit www.amedia.com.

All company names, brand names, and product names herein are trademarks of their respective holder(s).

This press release may contain "forward-looking" statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and  of 1995. A number of factors could cause Amedia's actual results to differ from anticipated results expressed in such forward-looking statements. Such factors are addressed in Amedia's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (available at www.sec.gov) and include, but are not limited to, the success and market acceptance of Amedia's triple play solution, the sufficiency of cash reserves to meet operating and other requirements, the relatively fast pace of obsolescence ob·so·les·cent  
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2. Biology Gradually disappearing; imperfectly or only slightly developed.
 in the broadband communications equipment market, and the competitive environment in the economy generally and in the telecommunications specifically. Amedia assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
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