GENBAND and Allied Telesis Deliver Advanced Triple Play Services to Incumbent Telephone Companies across North America.

PLANO, Texas -- GENBAND Inc., a leading provider of telecommunications infrastructure products enabling converged services, announced today the company has secured its tenth customer with Allied Telesis, a global provider of secure Ethernet/IP access solutions.

GENBAND's G6 Universal Gateway and Allied Telesis' integrated Multiservice Access Platform (iMAP) are RUS-accepted and NEBS-certified. The combined platforms are proving to be valuable for IOCs that are looking to deploy next-generation networks to deliver a host of IP services for enhanced revenue and service differentiation. Together, GENBAND and Allied Telesis have delivered IP Triple Play solutions to ten independent operating company (IOC) service providers including North Dakota Telephone Company, Twin Valley Telephone (Kansas), Vernon Telephone Cooperative (Wisconsin), Livingston Telephone (Texas), Gardonville Cooperative Telephone Association (Minnesota), Wilkes Telecommunications (North Carolina), Star Telephone Membership Cooperative (North Carolina), United Telephone Company (Tennessee) and Dunbarton Telephone Company (New Hampshire).

"The number of customers that have chosen and deployed the GENBAND and Allied Telesis solution for their multimedia network has been very encouraging," said Robert Vrij, senior vice president of worldwide sales at GENBAND. "The success of this combined offering and proven interoperability continues to drive new customer interest. We are confident that our combined customer list will continue to grow as more incumbent telcos look to migrate to next-gen networks."

"Telcos want to transition their entire networks to an IP infrastructure. However, many have PSTN Class 5 switches with years of depreciation remaining. The GENBAND G6 platform provides an elegant migration path. By deploying the G6 now, the legacy Class 5 remains in service until it is fully depreciated, and IP transport and access network elements like the Allied Telesis iMAP can be deployed immediately," said Dean Patterson, Allied Telesis' Vice President of Carrier Sales.

Much of the success GENBAND is seeing in the IOC market is due to the G6 platform's elegant network migration and its ability to be used as an access and trunking media gateway. Incumbents looking to maximize their legacy voice infrastructure can use the G6 platform to leverage new broadband technologies and deliver next-gen voice and multimedia services using Class 5 switches, softswitches and SIP application servers. This allows incumbent service providers to quickly and easily deliver Class 5 derived VoIP and VoATM services, while offering enhanced IP services to select customers. The service providers can then migrate their voice infrastructure, at their own pace, to a fully integrated next-generation, softswitch-based multimedia solution. At this point, GENBAND's S4 Applications Server and C2 Signaling Controller can be used for softswitch call control and enhanced voice services, with the G6 platform providing the trunking media gateway functionality.

Allied Telesis's success stems from a wide array of iMG intelligent Multiservice Gateways for ADSL and Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) networks, available in a variety of configurations and speeds. The iMG600 family combines support of IP Multicasting, QoS capabilities and the bandwidth capacity of fiber to deliver multiple video streams, IP Telephony and high-speed Internet access to subscribers. Using iMGs and next-generation FTTH or xDSL access infrastructure such as Allied Telesis's iMAP integrated Multiservice Access Platform, service providers are able to provide their end-user customers with a wide spectrum of converged services from a single end-to-end system.

About GENBAND(TM)

GENBAND(TM) develops, manufactures and markets IMS-based application, signaling and media gateway communication infrastructure products for a diverse set of service providers worldwide. GENBAND's products and solutions enable rapid deployment of new multimedia services, while at the same time, provide a foundation to transition legacy networks to next generation networks. GENBAND is headquartered in Plano, Texas with research and development facilities in Austin and Plano, Texas. Additional information is available at www.genband.com.