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Salsgiver Purchases Amedia's Gateways and FTTP Solution for Build-out in Western Pennsylvania; Service Management and Performance Noted as Decisive in Selection of Amedia.


EATONTOWN, N.J. -- Salsgiver Inc., an Internet Service Provider Internet service provider (ISP)

Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password.
 (ISP (1) See in-system programmable.

(2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines.
), and Amedia Networks, Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB

See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB).
:AANI), a provider of switched Ethernet An Ethernet network that is controlled by a switch instead of a shared hub. The switch cross connects all clients, servers and network devices, giving each sending-receiving pair the full rated transmission speed.  ultra-broadband solutions for the Triple Play Access Market, announced today that Salsgiver has purchased Amedia's PG1000 Premises Gateways and AS5000 Aggregation Switches to support their service build-out in the Allegheny Valley Region of Western Pennsylvania Western Pennsylvania consists of the western third of the state of Pennsylvania in the United States.

Pittsburgh is the largest city in the region, with a metropolitan area of about 2.4 million people, and is the cultural center for Western Pennsylvania.
.

The initial deployment will focus on schools and small businesses, with residential households expected to follow soon-after. Loren Salsgiver, president of Salsgiver, Inc., noted that their selection of Amedia was based on a number of factors, including Amedia's 90km reach, upstream and downstream rate limiting capabilities, and a truly hardened outdoor gateway that would withstand the harsh climates encountered in their service area. Mr. Salsgiver commented, "The Amedia products have superb capabilities to manage the bandwidth requirements of each of the multiple services delivered to a subscriber's premises. Video performs flawlessly even during extensive bandwidth spikes that occur with batch data transfers and Internet gaming sessions."

The PG1000 Premises Gateway QoS features and Layer 2/3 processing capabilities are performance tuned to support a full complement of services, including multiple simultaneous channels of high definition IP video, ultra-broadband data services and voice over IP services. In addition to per port rate limiting, the PG1000 offers per VLAN See virtual LAN.

VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network
 bandwidth provisioning in 1 Mbps increments up to a total of 100 Mbps. The AS5000 Aggregation Switch is a Layer 2, 5Gbps by 5Gbps Ethernet Switch that can reside in a Central Office, Head End, or on-premises within a MDU (1) (Multiple Dwelling Unit) A commercial or residential building with multiple offices or apartments. See BLEC.

(2) (Multiply-Divide Unit) A high-speed circuit that performs multiplication and division within the CPU.
 or office complex. It can also be deployed as a node in the outside plant without any environmental conditioning. Each unit aggregates traffic from up to 48 gateways and interconnects to Gigabit ports (from 1 to 5) on an Ethernet Core Switch.

Commenting on the agreement, Frank Galuppo, President and 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.  of Amedia, expressed his confidence that the Amedia solution will provide Salsgiver with all of the value that they were seeking from a vendor - and far more. "I have the very highest regard for the vision that Loren Salsgiver has for his business and for the services that his Company wants to offer to their subscribers. Our solution will provide them with an extremely economical way to meet their current needs, and with an architecture that will easily support future growth as they add new service offerings."

About Salsgiver, Inc.

Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Freeport, PA, Salsgiver offers broadband, dial-up, managed hosting, web hosting, web design, co-location, wireless services, and more to several thousand business and residential customers in Western Pennsylvania. Salsgiver recently received a video franchise agreement that will enable them to expand their service offerings from current data only ISP and WISP data services to a full triple play complement of services using a single IP backbone. For more information about Salsgiver Inc., please visit www.salsgiver.com.

About Amedia Networks, Inc.

Amedia designs, develops, and implements switched Ethernet solutions for the ultra-broadband access market. These secure and flexible solutions are used by network operators deploying Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP (Fiber To The Premises) The installation of optical fiber from the carrier directly into the home or office. Also called "fiber to the home" (FTTH). See PON and FTTC. See also FTP. ) and/or Fiber-to-the-Node (FTTN (Fiber To The Neighborhood or Fiber To The Node) See FTTC. ) 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.

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). Amedia assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
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