Heavy Reading™ Ranks General Bandwidth First Among Media Gateway Equipment Vendors
Tuesday, September 21,2004 G6® VoIP Media Gateway Rated Best in Access and Trunk Media Gateway Categories

Austin, Texas, September 21, 2004 – General Bandwidth, a leading Voice over IP(VoIP) equipment manufacturer enabling rapid deployment and new service revenue generation over broadband networks, today announced that its G6 VoIP Media Gateway was rated “best in class” in the Access Media Gateway and Trunk Media Gateway product categories by Heavy Reading™ (www.heavyreading.com), the market research division of Light Reading, Inc.

Heavy Reading’s report entitled “VOIP: A Comprehensive Competitive Analysis of Media Gateways,” provides one of the most extensive and comprehensive analysis of media gateways that are being deployed in support of next generation packet networks. General Bandwidth’s G6 platform was selected as the number one media gateway based on a feature-by-feature comparison from more than 25 world-wide manufacturers.

“With media gateways accounting for a bulk of the spending on next generation networks, our media gateway report provides an exhaustive analysis of products that will have significant impact on future of the next generation network,” says Dennis Mendyk, managing director of HeavyReading. “General Bandwidth’s G6 VoIP Media Gateway topped the list for both the GR.303/V.5 access and trunking gateway categories.”

“We are extremely pleased to receive such high marks for our media gateway from one of the industry’s leading research firms,” said Charlie Vogt, President and CEO of General Bandwidth. “General Bandwidth is focused on providing the most cost effective, reliable solutions to deliver IP-based services. The G6 platform is well positioned for service providers globally to deploy those services while transitioning their legacy networks to packet based networks”.

About General Bandwidth

General Bandwidth provides “Solutions for a VoIP WorldTM” with deployments across more than 40 domestic and international customers while enabling applications such as PacketCable™ cable telephony, VoIP Business Services, and SIP-based IP Centrex. General Bandwidth’s flagship product, the G6® VoIP Media Gateway, delivers high quality, full-featured voice services over a wide variety of packet architectures, including hybrid fiber coax (HFC), FTTP, DSL, and T1. With the capability to simultaneously support voice services from next generation softswitches and Class 5 switches, the G6 platform is a highly scalable, fully redundant, and very flexible service migration platform from which new voice and media features can be deployed.

Contact:
General Bandwidth
Tabitha Bailey
+1.805.241.2532
Tabitha.bailey@genband.com

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