Delta Deploys GENBANDS to Deliver Euro Docsis VOIP in the Netherlands

 

 

August 17, 2006, Plano, TX - GENBAND Inc., a leading provider of telecommunications infrastructure products enabling converged services, announced today the company’s G6® Universal Media Gateway has been deployed for cable telephony services in the province of Zeeland by DELTA NV, a leading Dutch Cable Operator. Imtech Telecom provided sales and integration of the G6 where it is providing full residential telecommunication service over an existing cable network through a EuroDOCSIS 2.0, PacketCable, and MGCP architecture.

“We have been very pleased with the G6 deployment and its seamless interoperability with the Nortel DMS-100 and cable infrastructure,” said Jan Dees, manager of cable networks at DELTA NV. “Voice quality and reliability is excellent, and as a result, we are able to bundle an integrated voice, video, and data service offering that immediately provides us differentiation and establishes a platform for future enhanced softswitched-based service.”


GENBAND’s G6 is used to provide derived voice via a redundant STM-1 connection to a Nortel DMS-100 telephony-switch. The G6 connects to the HFC-network through a CMTS from BigBand (Cuda 12000). The G6 converts legacy voice to Voice Over IP with the Nortel DMS-100 providing Class 5 features. The packet voice is passed over the HFC network to the subscriber where an EMTA from Scientific Atlanta (Webstar 2203) provides the POTS gates.


“GENBAND is pleased to be working closely with DELTA NV for the delivery of their cable voice services,” said Joe Parola, vice president of cable sales at GENBAND. “With our close partner Imtech, we have been able to provide a reliable VoIP solution that is both cost effective for DELTA NV and lays the foundation for further converged service differentiation. We look forward to working with DELTA NV to ensure that they maximize their revenue per users in the most economical fashion possible.”


 

About DELTA NV

DELTA NV is the fourth largest utility company in the Netherlands and it is based in Middelburg. DELTA NV is a national player in the wholesale energy trading markets and a supplier to large commercial customers, and has strong presence in the industrial water market (through the Evides joint venture). DELTA has five core business segments and production capacity with diversified resources that vary from gas and coal to wind power, solar, nuclear and biomass. From its inception, DELTA NV supplied gas and water via its own network to the province of Zeeland and Southwest Brabant in the Netherlands. As a result of utility privatizations, DELTA NV now supplies cable, Internet and media services to businesses and individual customers, apart from electricity, gas and water.

About Imtech Telecom
Imtech Telecom is headquartered in The Netherlands, with offices in the UK, Sweden, Belgium and Germany. The company is a subsidiary of Imtech N.V., a European technical services provider in the field of electrical engineering, ICT and mechanical engineering. With approximately 14,500 employees, Imtech realizes annual revenues of 2,4 billion Euro. Imtech holds strong positions in the buildings, industry, marine, infrastructure and telecoms markets in Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK and is also active in Eastern Europe. Imtech shares are listed on the Euronext Stock Exchange (Amsterdam), where Imtech is included in the Amsterdam SmallCap Index (AScX) and the Next 150 index. www.imtech.nl

About GENBAND
GENBAND™ develops, manufactures and markets IMS-based application, signaling and media gateway communication infrastructure products for a diverse set of service providers worldwide. GENBAND’s products and solutions enable rapid deployment of new multimedia services, while at the same time, provide a foundation to transition legacy networks to next generation networks. GENBAND is headquartered in Plano, Texas with research and development facilities in Austin and Plano, Texas. Additional information is available at www.genband.com.

Contacts:
Noah Sessions
GENBAND Inc.
+1.972.265.3664 (office)
noah.sessions@genband.com