Siemens Next Generation Exchange PLUS Portfolio Helps Protect EWSD and DCO Investments.

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Siemens Communications today announced its Next Generation Exchange (NGE) PLUS solution, designed specifically to leverage line-side access and outside plant investments for both EWSD and DCO operators in the United States. The offering provides a cost-effective migration path to the next-generation of unified data, video and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) services.

The Siemens(R) NGE PLUS solution preserves and leverages extensive line and remote access investments as part of a network transformation to NGN capability. The IP-centric solution helps to enable operational savings, network consolidation and revenue expansion.

Carriers with EWSD switches can directly connect existing DLU line and RCU remote line access equipment to the NGE PLUS Line Gateway - a key feature for a cost-effective strategy to next-generation capabilities. Carriers with DCO switches can directly connect existing LLS Line and RLS remote line access equipment to the NGE PLUS Line Gateway.

"The extensive line access investment with either EWSD or DCO networks is preserved and leveraged as part of the Siemens NGE PLUS architecture, making the solution's network capabilities affordable and cost-effective for operators of all sizes," said Harald Braun, president, Networks Division, Siemens Communications Inc. "The solution is designed to help minimize costly infrastructure changes to legacy time-division multiplexing (TDM) network environments that are growing obsolete - typically preserving 80 percent of existing network access infrastructure."

As a carrier-grade, open and standards-based architecture solution, the Siemens NGE PLUS family consists of the Siemens SURPASS softswitch platform, Line Gateways and a comprehensive slate of integration services from Siemens. Scalable to more than 100,000 lines, the Siemens NGE PLUS portfolio provides a migration path to the complete suite of Siemens SURPASS IP solutions for homes and businesses. The offering compliments Siemens' family of SURPASS NGN solutions including Voice over Broadband (VoBB), Hosted Office(TM) (BC) and Voice over Cable (VoC).

The Siemens LifeWorks Vision

The Siemens NGE PLUS solution is another critical component of the Siemens LifeWorks(TM) vision to help people interact, work and be entertained - without technology boundaries - in an always-on world. The company's award-winning LifeWorks vision provides the building blocks for the ongoing development of secure, reliable and high-quality converged communication solutions that drive greater efficiencies and improve user satisfaction.

About Siemens

Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) is one of the largest global electronics and engineering companies with reported worldwide sales of $96 billion in fiscal 2005. Founded nearly 160 years ago, the company is a leader in the areas Medical, Power, Automation and Control, Transportation, Information and Communications, Lighting, Building Technologies, Water Technologies and Services and Home Appliances. With its U.S. corporate headquarters in New York City, Siemens in the USA has sales of $18.8 billion and employs approximately 70,000 people throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Eleven of Siemens' worldwide businesses are based in the United States. With its global headquarters in Munich, Siemens AG and its subsidiaries employ 460,000 people in 190 countries. For more information on Siemens in the United States: www.usa.siemens.com

About Siemens Communications Inc.

Siemens Communications Inc. offers its customers a broad portfolio of communication products and services and is a leader in convergent technologies, products and services for wireless, fixed and enterprise networks. The company's portfolio ranges from devices for end users to complex network infrastructures and complementary services for enterprises, carriers and service providers. Siemens Communications Inc. is headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla. For more information, visit www.usa.siemens.com/communications

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