Seranoa Networks Continues Momentum Adding Two New Service Provider Customers to Its Portfolio.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

BOXBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 15, 2004

Switch Advanced Communications and MECnet Reap the Benefits of the IPeX(TM) Service Edge Concentrators 

Seranoa Networks (www.seranoa.com), the leading provider of Service Edge Concentrators, today announced two new service provider customers - Switch Advanced Communications (www.switch2switch.com) and MECnet (www.mecnet.net/internet). Both customers are using Seranoa's IPeX Service Edge Concentrators to aggregate IP business subscribers, streamline and simplify network operations, and deliver increasingly popular IP business services. The dramatic capital and operational cost savings provided by Seranoa has allowed these service providers to offer very cost-effective service offerings to their customers.

The IPeX Service Edge Concentrators are a family of innovative IP-aware layer-2 switches built to make a service provider's access infrastructure more cost efficient in transporting popular packet and TDM services to business customers. With IPeX Service Edge Concentrators, service providers can reduce subscriber port costs, multiply subscriber capacity, optimize transport bandwidth, improve network availability, and deliver profitable new business applications as they migrate to a single, converged IP/MPLS infrastructure.

"Our customers see an immediate benefit when they implement Seranoa's IPeX Service Edge Concentrators in their network," states Sally Bament, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Seranoa Networks. "The dramatic reduction in equipment and operational costs provides our customers with better margins and the opportunity to then pass these savings on to their customers. Both Switch Advanced Communications and MECnet realize these benefits, further validating our unique value proposition in the market."

Seranoa Networks, Inc. Customer Wins Include:

-- Switch Advanced Communications (www.switch2switch.com) offers high-speed, dedicated, multi-provider T-1 Internet connections at 1.5 Mbps for businesses and organizations who need a full-time, high-speed connection to the Internet. Switch also manages the Nevada NAP(TM), the premier disaster avoidance carrier-neutral Network Access Point (NAP) in the United States. The connectivity provided by Switch delivers unparalleled speed, reliability and network availability at the lowest cost available for its customers.

"With Seranoa's IPeX WANport, our capital expenditure ROI is a lot sooner which lets us offer a more competitive T1 price to our customers," explains Jeff Ames, Executive Vice President of Engineering at Switch. "In the future the IPeX products will allow us to offer voice as a converged product through our CLEC partners."

-- MECnet (www.mecnet.net/internet) is a service of the Merrimack Education Center Technology System. The MECnet Wrap-Around Service is a comprehensive Internet solution designed specifically for public and private schools, cities and towns, libraries and non-profit organizations throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. These non-profits benefit from an easy-to-use and affordable Internet access package that is packed with a wide range of features and functions.

"The Seranoa IPeX fits beautifully into our network. It helps us to deliver a better experience for the schools we support, plus it is a better experience for us because we can manage the network traffic more effectively by putting it into a VLAN and managing for quality of service," said Jeff Bajgot, Chief Technology Officer at MECnet. "We had looked at other solutions from Cisco and Juniper but they exceeded our budget, even if we were to purchase used equipment."

Both Switch Advanced Communications and MECnet are starting to deliver Multilink PPP services using the Seranoa IPeX, and both also have plans to offer VoIP services to their customers later this year.

About Seranoa Networks

Seranoa Networks, Inc. develops a family of carrier-class Service Edge Concentration products enabling service providers to cost-effectively deliver increasingly popular IP services (such as VoIP), along with traditional services to business subscribers, while facilitating an eventual convergence to an IP/MPLS core data network architecture. Products from Seranoa Networks are currently deployed in service provider's networks throughout North America. Our unique technology delivers unprecedented performance, functionality and value to our customers. Seranoa Networks is located in Boxborough, Massachusetts.

Seranoa, the Seranoa Networks logo, IPeX and WANport are trademarks of Seranoa Networks, Inc. All other company names, product names and company logos mentioned herein are the trademarks, or registered trademarks of their respective owners.