GENBAND Introduces New Line of IMS-Based Multimedia Products and Solutions for Wireline, Cable, and Wireless Service Providers

Plano, TX – GENBAND Inc., a leading provider of telecommunications infrastructure products enabling converged services, announced today a new portfolio of products for signaling, call control, and enhanced applications that are designed to help incumbent wireline, cable, wireless, or competitive service providers deliver multimedia services and easily migrate to an IMS architecture.

The new C2 Signaling Controller and S4 Applications Server have been introduced to complement GENBAND’s flagship G6® Universal Media Gateway. Deployed individually or together as a best-of-breed signaling, application and media gateway solution, GENBAND’s new IMS-based multimedia products reduce network operating expense while driving increased average revenue per user (ARPU).

S4 Applications Server

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. Based on a scalable, commercially available NEBS-3 platform, the S4 Applications Server provides an economical system for service providers to offer revenue enhancing communication services. Designed for both wireline and cable providers, GENBAND’s new S4 platform provides robust TDM or IP services enabling service providers to gracefully migrate TDM networks to IMS based services. Either supplementing the G6 and/or C2 platform, or as a best of breed stand-alone application solution, 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.

C2 Signaling Controller

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.

“GENBAND’s G6 platform has established itself in several of the largest incumbent wireline and cable carriers within North America,” said Matt Davis, Director, Consumer Multiplay Services at IDC. “The addition of technology that provides service providers the capability of deploying advanced IP-based services should help better position the company as a broader multimedia solutions provider.”

A demonstration of GENBAND’s converged services product portfolio will be conducted at TelecomNEXT Conference and Exhibition in Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas on March 21-22, Booth 1039.

“Today marks a new era in the evolution of our company,” stated Charles Vogt, president and CEO of GENBAND. “In parallel with these new products, General Bandwidth is becoming GENBAND and we are establishing our corporate headquarters in Plano, Texas. We have had strong demand for our media gateway products over the last 18 months; securing 41 new customers in 2005, 80 in total. With our new call control and SIP-based application products complemented by our award winning G6 universal media gateway, we believe we are well positioned with the wireline, cable, and wireless operators as they migrate their networks to an IMS architecture.”

Flagship G6 Universal Media Gateway

GENBAND’s award-winning G6 Universal Media Gateway is a standards-based circuit-to-packet platform that is deployed in over 80 service provider networks, having been deployed within switching office, head-end and Point of Presence (POP) locations. It enables voice communications between packet-based networks and circuit-based networks. 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 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