Plano, TX, October 25, 2010 – GENBAND, a leading developer of IP infrastructure and service solutions, today announced that Bell Aliant, one of North America’s largest regional communications providers, has deployed GENBAND’s industry-leading C20™ Converged Softswitch and A2™ Converged Application Server to support the delivery of advanced IP business communication services to business subscribers across Atlantic Canada. Bell Aliant leverages GENBAND IP infrastructure for consumers and businesses alike. GENBAND’s solutions help enable Bell Aliant to integrate phone, Internet and IT services, providing a powerful, simple and unified communications experience that greatly improves business productivity and collaboration while reducing cost.

“Bell Aliant is committed to providing advanced business communication and collaboration capabilities that deliver a fully integrated desktop experience for our customers, along with access to the latest IP applications and services like presence, secure IM, mobility and video conferencing,” said Joe Mosher, Vice President, Marketing, Bell Aliant. “GENBAND’s IP infrastructure helps give our business customers a more unified communications experience that provides a simple, convenient and flexible way for them to increase productivity, collaboration and reduce expenses.”

As part of the new service, Bell Aliant is helping the City of Saint John, New Brunswick, to upgrade its Centrex network of over 700 Centrex users across 13 locations.

“Having a robust IT and communications infrastructure is a strategic imperative to our business,” said Ian MacKinnon, Manager, Information Technology for the City of Saint John. “Integrated IP communications services like those provided by Bell Aliant and its partner, GENBAND, play a key role in enabling our work force productivity.”

Mr. MacKinnon added the solution allows the City of Saint John to achieve the following:

• Reduce our overall telecommunications expenditures and leverage previous investments
• Collaborate effectively and efficiently by allowing the city’s dispersed teams to seamlessly communicate and work together, regardless of their location
• Provide a mechanism to generate future business and productivity improvements

“We’re very pleased to join with Bell Alliant in enabling carrier-hosted unified business communication and collaboration services, which provide transformative and flexible productivity benefits for businesses,” said Pablo Gargiulo, President of Global Sales, GENBAND. “GENBAND’s C20 and A2 solutions scale from thousands to millions of lines and offer powerful carrier-grade reliability and feature richness. Our unique capabilities allow service providers to maximize their existing network and seize growth opportunities by delivering advanced communication capabilities to small, medium and large enterprise customers.”

GENBAND’s solutions have been deployed across Bell Aliant’s entire network to support the delivery of Bell Aliant’s Total Office offer. This innovative product bundle includes fully managed Internet access, Centrex voice services, dedicated technical support, and leading business collaboration and productivity tools including Microsoft business email and a PC-based VoIP phone.

GENBAND and Bell Aliant technology experts are speaking at this week’s International Telecommunications Professional’s Exchange Conference, taking place at the Toronto Marriott Bloor Yorkville Hotel on October 25-26. Mark Woollam, GENBAND’s Director of Solutions Marketing, will give the keynote presentation on “The Value of the Cloud for Enterprise Communications” on Oct. 25. On Oct. 26, Kevin Drury, GENBAND’s Director of Business Development, will present “Considerations for implementing a Hybrid Cloud/Premise based IP Network.” In addition, Wanda Dunphy, Senior Project Manager, Marketing, Bell Aliant, and Ian MacKinnon, Manager, Information Technology, for the City of Saint John, will co-present a case study on the success of the city’s Government IP Centrex Network migration on Oct. 26. For the complete agenda and event background, please visit http://www.itpx.org/.

About GENBAND
GENBAND is a global leader of IP infrastructure and service solutions, helping fixed, mobile and cable service providers around the world evolve communications networks through IP innovation. The Company offers market-leading Switching, Networking and Service solutions, with products deployed in over 600 customer networks spanning more than 80 countries. GENBAND is headquartered in Plano, Texas, and has operations in 50 countries. To learn more, visit us on the web at www.genband.com.

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Contacts:
Kim Lee
GENBAND
+1.972.265.3766
kim.lee@genband.com

Jamie Moody
GENBAND
+1.972.684.7167
jamie.moody@genband.com