Plano, TX – GENBAND™ Inc., a leading provider of telecommunications infrastructure products enabling converged services, announced today a strategic alliance with Dynavar Corporation, a leading technology integrator and solutions provider with operations in North, Central, and South America, enabling Dynavar to integrate GENBAND’s suite of convergence infrastructure products into its comprehensive portfolio of solutions.

Service providers that are ramping-up their VoIP, IPTV, and triple play deployments are increasingly finding benefit from integrator alliances that allow them to meet the service and technological challenges of evolving their networks and adding new services. This strategic alliance will allow Dynavar to incorporate GENBAND’s full suite of IMS-based multimedia solutions into Dynavar’s portfolio of products that are sold to ILECs, PTTs, CLECs, and IOCs throughout the Americas.

“Dynavar is well known and respected for integrating advanced products into a total solution that incorporates trusted network design, engineering, and support services to carriers across many different countries,” stated Charles Vogt, president and CEO of GENBAND. “This geographic reach and breadth of services will help GENBAND expand to a much larger customer base faster and more strategically. We look forward to developing a long-term relationship with Dynavar and helping their growing customer base evolve to IMS-compliant architectures that can quickly provide increased revenues while significantly reducing infrastructure costs.”

 
“GENBAND’s portfolio of products for switching, signaling, call control, and enhanced applications allows us to design, build, and maintain the most innovative, reliable, and cost-effective integrated communication networks in the world for our customers,” said Sean MacNeill, president and COO of Dynavar Corporation. “GENBAND is a disruptive force in the market with their new portfolio of products. When combined with their understanding of our customers’ needs for converged services and migration of existing infrastructure to support next generation systems, I believe that our customers will fully embrace GENBAND’s path to support an IMS architecture while addressing their OPEX and CAPEX concerns.”

GENBAND meets the network migration needs of service providers by maximizing the value of their existing telecommunications infrastructures and providing open standards, IMS-compliant migration path to next-generation services. GENBAND’s portfolio is comprised of the G6â Universal Media Gateway, C2Ô Signaling Controller, and S4™ Applications Server. The G6 Universal Media Gateway is a best-in-class Access, Reverse, and Trunking Media Gateway and network migration platform, purpose-built for the C.O., Headend, or POP, with the capability to simultaneously support multiple service architectures including Class 5 switches as well as IMS-based SIP application servers and softswitches. The C2 Signaling Controller is an open standards-based, IMS-compatible platform with both media gateway control and signaling gateway capabilities, providing SIP network interconnection to legacy PSTN and SS7 networks. The S4 Applications Server is an economical SIP-based platform for offering revenue enhancing, Class 5 residential and small business voice and multimedia services. Sold separately or integrated into a converged network solution, GENBAND’s suite of products helps accelerate service providers beyond voice to an efficient network that seamlessly migrates to IMS and valued services that attract and retain customers.

About Dynavar Corporation
Dynavar Corporation is a leading technology integrator and solutions provider specializing in a full range of integrated communication solutions that drive next generation networks for the service provider market. Dynavar’s comprehensive voice, data, and video networking solutions, from single manufacturer solutions to multi-vendor recommendations, enable customers around the world to build converged networks and to offer network-based multi-media services for the residential and enterprise markets. Since 1994, Dynavar has built a solid reputation for crafting integrated solutions around superior technologies. Dynavar delivers a suite of high-performance technology solutions encompassing end-to-end broadband, Optical, VoIP, multimedia services and applications, and wireless broadband designed to deliver the network capabilities that connect people worldwide. From simple fulfillment to complete turnkey solutions, Dynavar works directly with more than 1,500 customers throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Latin America in twenty-eight locations. Dynavar is a privately held company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. For more information, please visit www.dynavar.com

About GENBAND
GENBAND is a leading provider of telecommunications infrastructure products enabling converged services for over 80 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