Plano, TX, March 31, 2009 - GENBAND Inc., a market-leading developer of next-generation IP infrastructure solutions, today announced SIPconnect Certification and a suite of enhancements to its S3™ Session Border Controller including the most advanced, highest performance, fully compliant IPX Proxy offering on the market. GENBAND’s enhanced S3 has successfully completed IPX trials with several large mobile operators and will be highlighted at CTIA Wireless 2009, April 1 – 3, in Las Vegas, at Booth 6906.

IPX Proxy enables the secure exchange of IP-based traffic between fixed and mobile carriers, ASPs, and enterprises over private IP networks, delivering differentiated service quality and well-defined charging methods for bilateral and multilateral traffic exchange. GENBAND’s integration of IPX Proxy into the S3 provides a comprehensive solution that delivers high performance routing based on ENUM for multimedia and emerging mobile applications, such as IM, picture, and video. It also provides session visibility and policy control to the IPX operation and supports CDR processing, QoS/SLA alarming and extensive analytics to support IPX exchanges.

 “The sweeping additions to the S3 round out our session border control solution with significant and meaningful features for our operator customers,” said Mehmet Balos, Chief Marketing Officer at GENBAND. “By leveraging market-proven technology, we continue to invest in strategic product enhancements that fuel our focus on seamless IP network migration, protection and deployment. Our entire S-series security portfolio is a significant pillar in GENBAND’s strategic roadmap and these enhancements are leveraged beyond the S3 product line, particularly as we scale our S-Series ATCA-based solutions for the tier one carrier market.”

The S3 also recently achieved SIPconnect Compliant certification from the SIP Forum, a leading independent IP communications industry association comprised of individuals and companies who contribute to the development of global IP communications based on the SIP standard.  SIPconnect certification provides customers with validation that the S3 provides reliable direct IP peering between SIP IP PBXs and operator VoIP networks.  By supporting registration handling for SIP trunks, interworking for SIP, and H.323 with programmable header manipulation, the enhanced S3 overcomes vendor incompatibilities in a wide variety of IP PBXs and end devices. The S3 SBC’s direct peering to VoIP networks also eliminates the need for TDM gateways at the premises, reducing integration complexity, freeing network resources, and enabling device interoperability and faster rollout of new services.

Adding to the S3 product’s extensive interconnect routing feature set, new percent-based routing capabilities allow operators to distribute traffic across supplier routes based on percentages.  This facilitates the maintenance of service agreements with other carriers and flexibly distributes call loads across carriers, minimizing interconnection costs and simplifying provisioning and support.

“GENBAND’s latest security release demonstrates the company’s commitment to significantly evolve the scope and functionality of the security solutions acquired from NextPoint Networks,” said Stéphane Téral, Infonetics’ Principal Analyst, Service Provider Mobile and FMC Infrastructure. “The enhanced S3 offers operators compelling capabilities that reduce CapEx and OpEx and deliver new applications. The S3’s interconnect routing features position GENBAND among the SBC market leaders and GENBAND’s enhancements offer even more control to IP network operators.”

The S3 Session Border Controller delivers secure carrier class, real-time communications for mobile and fixed line service providers, enabling new service offerings, rapid revenue generation and network cost-savings. With extensive security, policy enforcement, session routing and session management capabilities, the S3 brings operators advanced levels of functionality, flexibility and performance at IP network borders.
 

About GENBAND
GENBAND is a global leader and innovator of next generation IP media, session border and fixed mobile convergence security solutions deployed in over half of the world’s 100 largest service providers. These high-performance gateway solutions are at the core of fixed and mobile networks around the world - evolving, securing and enhancing communications networks. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, GENBAND has Centers of Excellence in Brazil, China, Maryland, Massachusetts and Texas, and serves customers and partners in more than 80 countries. Additional information is available at www.genband.com.

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Kim Lee                                   Frank Puglia
GENBAND Inc.                         GENBAND Inc.
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