Pannaway Simplifies Broadband Service Delivery for Telcos with Industry's Most Flexible Family of Next-Generation DLC Products.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. and CHICAGO -- New IP DSLAM Product Suite Allows Telcos to Mix and Match Voice, Video and Data Technologies for More Efficient and Affordable Broadband Deployment

Pannaway Technologies, Inc., designers and developers of converged broadband voice, video and data platforms, today announced the availability of four new members to its award-winning Broadband Access Switch (BAS(TM)) product suite. Pannaway's BAS is the industry's first next-generation DLC/DSLAM to support both Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP), enabling carriers to mix and match protocols or seamlessly migrate from legacy to next generation capabilities without the need to rip and replace existing equipment.

With these new additions to Pannaway's BAS family, telecommunications service providers are able to easily and affordably offer a variety of high-revenue communications and entertainment services including carrier-class VoIP and high-speed Internet, as well as a plethora of video-based services including Video-on-Demand and High-Definition TV - all over a single broadband connection. With these new product additions, the flexible BAS family includes support for Triple Play on all ports; POTS/VoIP only; video and data only (ADSL2+); as well as a previously announced 24 port fiber version enabling unparalleled flexibility for telecommunications service providers to manage the converged traffic of up to 48 premise devices in a 1RU package.

"Rural telecom carriers are finding themselves in an increasingly competitive market for broadband adoption where the importance of flexibility has become paramount," said Mike Skubisz, CTO for Pannaway. "Our industry-unique family of access switches enables telcos to leverage existing MGCP deployments where they makes sense while future-proofing their infrastructure investment with cutting-edge SIP-enabled service capabilities."

Pannaway's BAS family is distinguished by its unique ability to support both SIP and MGCP. SIP enables support for a variety of next generation VoIP calling features including caller ID television pop-ups, distinctive ring tones and time-of-day call forwarding while providing Primary Line VoIP(SM) functionality to ensure E-911 calling availability in the event of a power outage. MGCP support allows carriers the flexibility to migrate from a legacy switching environment where calling feature development has been sluggish, to a next-generation SIP environment where calling feature development is flourishing. Deployed in central office (CO) racks or remote terminal (RT) cabinets, Pannaway's 1RU BAS products were designed to promote a smooth transition to next generation broadband deployment where cabinet space is at a minimum and without requiring costly and disruptive "forklift upgrades" of existing infrastructure equipment.

Pannaway's BAS Family includes:

--BAS-100BX24 (announced on May 23, 2005) - Fiber BAS with 24 100Base-BX single strand bi-directional active fiber Ethernet ports, dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports (choose any combination from 4 SFP or 4 10/100/1000) and optional higher speed uplink slot

- All ports voice, video and data ready

--BAS-ADSL48R - Copper BAS with 48 combination ADSL2+ and Lifeline VoIP-based POTS ports and redundant 10 Gigabit SFP Ethernet connectors

- All ports voice, video and data ready

--BAS-ADSL48R-SPL - Copper BAS with 48 ADSL2+ ports with integrated POTS splitters and redundant 10 Gigabit SFP Ethernet connectors

--BAS-ADSL48R-DATA - Copper BAS with 48 ADSL2+ ports and redundant 10 Gigabit SFP Ethernet connectors

- All ports video and data ready

--BAS-POTS48R - Copper BAS with 48 Lifeline VoIP-based POTS ports and redundant 10 Gigabit SFP Ethernet connectors

- All ports VoIP/POTS ready

"Pannaway's new BAS products make their IP DSLAM family among the most flexible in the marketplace", said Dave Bickett, General Manager at Park Region Mutual Telephone Company. "We now have the ability to mix and match full Triple Play ports with voice, video and/or data only depending on our subscriber's specific needs. Also, because Pannaway is the only access provider to support both MGCP and SIP, we can migrate to new next generation calling capabilities at our own pace."

Pricing and Availability

All members of Pannaway's Broadband Access Switch family are available for immediate delivery. For product and pricing information, please visit us at http://pannaway.com/products/broadband-access-switch.cfm or contact us at [e-mail].

Pannaway representatives will be at SUPERCOMM in Chicago from June 5-9 in booth #86073. Attendees will be able to view a live demonstration of Pannaway's award-winning, converged voice, video and data technology. For more information on SUPERCOMM, please visit www.supercomm2005.com.

About Pannaway Technologies

Pannaway Technologies has designed the industry's first carrier-class, end-to-end IP Ethernet solution for truly converged voice, video and data service delivery. Pannaway's multi-award winning and patent-pending technologies enable telecommunications service providers worldwide to deliver profitable broadband services to homes and businesses at a fraction of their historical costs. The privately held company is headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and has been building solutions to fit the specific needs of telcos since 2002. Its founding management team, with over 90 years of collective industry experience has played a pioneering role in helping telecommunications service providers of all sizes to evolve into multi-service broadband communications providers. For more information, please visit www.pannaway.com.