GENBAND's M6 Communications Application Server Provides Reliable, Flexible VoIP

October 30, 2007, Plano, TX - GENBAND Inc., a market-leading provider of next-generation IP gateways and application solutions, today announced Geckotech, HIP Communications, and SDI Networks have deployed the GENBAND™ M6 Communication Applications Server to provide advanced IP voice services in their respective markets. While each provider’s network is uniquely tailored to meet the needs of their diverse markets, all cite common reasons for choosing the M6TM platform over other application servers: reliability, scalability, broad feature offering and ease-of-use.

GENBAND’s M6 platform provides a quick, cost-effective path to enabling voice over IP, hosted PBX and enhanced service offerings in fixed and mobile networks, increasing profitability for service providers and improving the efficiency and usefulness of telephony and multimedia services in the valued residential and business markets. This unique solution allows operators to rapidly and cost-effectively expand into new geographic markets, while increasing service provider ROI by leveraging new or existing broadband infrastructure. The M6 platform is an integrated, scaleable, standards-based solution that delivers revenue-generating voice and multimedia applications out of the box, eases administration and works with a wide range of both network equipment and protocols to reliably support users for enterprise, consumer, and mobile applications.

Geckotech, a provider of hosted VoIP services to small to medium businesses across the Midwestern U.S., originally began using the M6 platform three years ago as a wholesale customer. Today, as a service provider, they have purchased and deployed the M6 platform in their own network.

“Our priority from day one has been to build a reliable network so that we may focus our time on providing the highest level of high-touch customer support to fully enable our customer base,” said Josh Robbins, managing partner of Geckotech. “The reliability and scalability of the M6 make it a perfect fit for our business and our customers,”

Toronto-based HIP Communications has invested more than 7 years building its nationwide Canadian IP VoIP network and HIP selected the GENBAND M6 platform nearly 2 years ago for its enhanced IP feature set and rock solid reliability. HIP's business and retail merchant customers now benefit from more efficient communications at every opportunity: from the contact center all the way down to the five person startup that needs to act like a big business.

“The ease of deploying and managing the M6 platform in our network, coupled with its rich feature set is what set GENBAND apart from all the other vendors we evaluated,” said Ben Lucier, vice president and general manager of HIP Communications Corp. “With the M6, our customers have available the industry’s most advanced features, without the complexity or need for dedicated staff to support them.”

SDI Networks leverages GENBAND’s M6 Solution to provide focused VoIP services for public education and other non-profit businesses in the public sector of South Carolina and Georgia with expansion plans for other Southeastern states.

“SDI excels at bringing comprehensive technology solutions to many underserved markets including the Public Sector”, said Michael Knight, Chief Technology Officer of SDI Networks. “The reliability and flexibility of GENBAND’s M6 enables our SDI Voice solution to achieve the critical task of helping bring many schools into today’s information age.”

About Geckotech

Geckotech is the Midwest's leading outsourced IP phone system provider to small and midsized businesses. By outsourcing to Geckotech, businesses free valuable time to focus on growth and less time worrying about phone equipment, phone lines and expensive upgrades. Since 2003 Geckotech has focused exclusively on providing outsourced communications with the highest level of customer service on the most reliable, business-grade platform. Geckotech's uptime and reliability is consistently the highest in the industry and businesses benefit from enhanced productivity, flexibility, scalability, reliability and a reduced total cost of ownership over traditional phone systems.

About HIP Communications

HIP Communications Corp. was founded to deliver next-generation IP applications across its customers' existing data infrastructure. These applications, such as its business VoIP offering are hosted at HIP's data centre at 151 Front Street West in Toronto and deployed to business customers across Canada. HIP's key strength is its Canada-wide IP network, owned and operated by HIP, setting it apart from other VoIP providers that do not own or operate their network or facilities.

About SDI Networks (http://www.sdinetworks.com)

SDI Networks is an innovative systems integration firm who provides its customers with "one hand to shake" for all of their technology needs. Bringing best-of-breed vendors together with the industry's most talented sales and engineering force, SDI offers a suite of services that is second to none. While providing a consultative, "solutions-focused" approach, SDI Networks offers services that cover every layer of the OSI Network Model.

About GENBAND

GENBAND is a leading supplier of IP infrastructure and application solutions to fixed and mobile service providers. These high-performance gateway and application products uniquely address the challenges and opportunities associated with the migration of today’s legacy TDM and 2G networks to NGN and IMS. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, GENBAND has research and development facilities in Texas, China and India. Additional information is available at www.genband.com.

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