GENBAND and CCI Form Partnership Alliance Targeting Cable Telephony Market

April 10, 2006, Plano, TX – GENBAND™ Inc., a leading provider of telecommunications infrastructure products enabling converged services; and CCI (Cable Constructors Inc.) from Iron Mountain Michigan, an industry expert in the design, construction, and maintenance of broadband communications systems; have entered into a distribution agreement to sell GENBAND’s full portfolio of next generation IMS-based products. 

CCI will resell GENBAND’s product and solutions portfolio and provide system integration services including full turnkey supply, project management and deployment, network integration services and full field support.  The GENBAND product portfolio that CCI will sell and integrate includes the G6® Universal Media Gateway, C2™ Signaling Controller, and S4™ Applications Server.  Deployed individually or together as a best-of-breed signaling, application and media gateway solution, GENBAND’s IMS-based solutions allow cable service providers to easily and cost effectively deploy advanced consumer and small business VoIP services in a Class 5 derived or softswitched architecture based on PacketCable requirements.

“We are excited to be working with CCI to deliver the highest quality voice services and next generation multimedia services to the cable market,” said Charles Vogt, President and CEO of GENBAND. “CCI and GENBAND share a common vision to ensure a seamless migration toward packet voice within the cable market segment.”

Mr. John P. Jamar President and CEO of CCI said, “We selected GENBAND because they provide the best combination of compact, flexible, scalable and reliable carrier class voice solutions that are well fitted for our customers’ growing VoIP needs.” 

A demonstration of GENBAND’s converged services product portfolio that CCI will be selling can be see at the National Show in the Georgia World Convention Center, Atlanta on April 8-11, Booth #2526.  As part of the demonstration, GENBAND will showcase a cost effective Cable VoIP deployment utilizing its S4 Application Server for advanced Class 5 services, the C2 Signaling Controller as a SIP to SS7 media gateway, and the G6 Universal Gateway providing voice communications between packet-based networks and circuit-based networks.

GENBAND’s S4 Applications Server enables revenue-enhancing communication services over any IP network and provides a full suite of Class 5 residential and small business services, as well as exciting new enhanced features such as web-based customer portals and self-provisioning.  The S4 platform offers robust Class 5 VoIP and supports SIP, MGCP, TGCP and NCS line interfaces with packet or TDM access.  It supports interworking with marketing-leading ATA, IP phones, IADs, media gateways, DLCs, and BLCs.  The S4 platform is designed for deployment flexibility with both a SIP interface to the signaling / PSTN gateway for larger deployments and also supporting an integrated on-board SS7 option for smaller deployments. 

GENBAND’s C2 Signaling Controller is a powerful new, IMS compliant product featuring market-leading SIP to SS7 and media gateway control capabilities -- packaged in a highly redundant, NEBS-3 platform.  With the C2 platform, service providers who deploy SIP networks can now have full access to SS7 services enabling the use of ISUP trunks and TCAP databases as well as full support for PRI and MF-CAS trunks for transitioning calls to/from the PSTN. With its SIP to SS7 gateway function, the C2 platform terminates SS7 links and interworks SS7 signaling with SIP while providing an IMS compliant Media Gateway Control Function (MGCF) for connectivity to the PSTN.

G6 Universal Media Gateway

GENBAND’s G6 Universal Media Gateway is a standards-based circuit-to-packet platform that is deployed in over 90 service provider networks, having been deployed within switching office, head-end and Point of Presence (POP) locations.  Proven interoperable with and simultaneously supporting the leading Class 5 switches, softswitches, SIP application servers, digital loop carriers (DLCs), and customer premises equipment (CPE), the G6 platform uniquely enables service providers to accelerate VoIP services and network migration by leveraging their existing and next generation network assets.  The G6 platform is a true carrier class solution that provides redundancy and a fully integrated emergency stand-alone capability and will be IMS compliant as both a trunking (T-MGW) and access (A-MGW) media gateway.

About CCI

Founded in 1955 and headquartered in Iron Mountain Michigan, CCI is a nationally recognized leader of optical/network integration services to the cable industry and only one of four Cisco Cable Specialized Partners in the United States with the experience and expertise to deploy the Cisco CMTS.  Serving hundreds of cable operators in the United States ranging from the largest MSOs to smaller tier four cable operators, CCI is a full service turnkey provider of engineering, mapping construction, integration services and materials for converging voice, video and high speed data networks.  Additional information is available at www.cciinc.us   

About GENBAND™

GENBAND™ is a leading provider of telecommunications infrastructure products enabling converged services for over 90 service providers worldwide.  GENBAND’s portfolio of IMS-based products and solutions allows service providers to maximize the value of their legacy infrastructure while seamlessly migrating to next-generation, multimedia services that enable new, revenue-generating opportunities.  GENBAND’s market-leading, carrier-class G6® Universal Media Gateway and network management system are RUS listed, OSMINE certified, PacketCable™ qualified, and NEBS-3 certified, produced in a TL 9000 registered quality management system, and deployed by ILECs, RLECs, CLECs, and cable-MSOs.  GENBAND’s recently expanded product portfolio further helps service providers gain the benefits of distributed, best of breed networks with the addition of the C2 Signaling Controller that connects SIP networks to legacy SS7 networks and databases, and the S4 Applications Server that provides advanced Class 5 VoIP services to residential and small business customers.  With thirteen patents issued and fifteen pending, GENBAND was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Plano, Texas with research and development locations in Austin, TX, Plano, TX, and Brazil.  Additional information is available at www.genband.com.

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