Plano, TX - GENBAND Inc., a leading provider of telecommunications infrastructure products enabling converged services, announced today that Matt Desch, Bo Hedfors, and Steve Levy have joined GENBAND’s Advisory Board.

“GENBAND is rapidly growing and the addition of these three gentleman to our advisory board will undoubtedly help us manage growth and capitalize on our unique industry position,” said Charles Vogt, president and chief executive officer of GENBAND. “We are very pleased that they have agreed to work with GENBAND as we continue to expand our product and market solutions and I am certain their addition to the team will prove invaluable.”

Matthew J. Desch has held a variety of leadership positions within the telecommunications industry over the last 25 years. Mr. Desch is currently the chairman of Airspan Networks Inc., a leader in WiMAX technology he led through a successful IPO in 2000. From July 2002 until October 2005, Mr. Desch was the CEO of Telcordia Technologies, a private communications software and services supplier. Mr. Desch was also a member of the Board of Directors of Flarion, Inc., a mobile broadband equipment supplier acquired by Qualcomm Incorporated in January 2006. From 1987 through May 2000, Mr. Desch served in a variety of management positions with Nortel Networks including Executive Vice President and President of Nortel's Wireless Networks division, responsible for Nortel's global wireless infrastructure business. Mr. Desch began his career at AT&T Network Systems and AT&T Bell Laboratories (now Lucent Technologies). Mr. Desch has a B.S. from Ohio State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

“With the addition of signaling, call control, and enhanced IP applications, GENBAND has successfully transitioned itself into a IMS solutions provider,” said Matt Desch. “The company has built upon its media gateway expertise and is positioning itself nicely to provide advanced multimedia solutions for a wide variety of service provider carriers.”

With over 37 years of experience, Bo Hedfors is the founder of a telecom/internet consulting practice. Previously, he was Executive Vice President of Motorola and President of its global wireless infrastructure business. Prior to Motorola, Mr. Hedfors was with Ericsson, where he spent 30 years in different management positions including Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of LM Ericsson in Stockholm; and President and CEO of Ericsson, Inc. in Dallas. Bo is member of the boards of Tellabs (Nasdaq: TLAB), Openwave (NASDAQ: OPWV), Kineto Wireless, Virtutech, Inc., and publicly traded SwitchCore AB in Sweden. Bo has served as advisor to Sun, Compaq and HP, and is currently engaged as advisor to both small private and large public communications companies worldwide. Mr. Hedfors is a former long-term member of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA). He has served on several university boards and is currently Chairman of US Friends of Chalmers University of Technology, Inc. Bo Hedfors holds a Master of Electrical Engineering degree from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden and he is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

“GENBAND has become one of the packet voice industry’s most innovative solutions providers,” said Bo Hedfors. “The company has successfully deployed advanced solutions for the cable and wireline markets. With its broadened product line, GENBAND is now poised to further these industry successes and bridge advanced applications in converged wireless service offerings as well.”

Steve Levy has more than two decades of Wall Street experience and most recently served as Managing Director and Global Head of Communications Technology Research at Lehman Brothers. Before joining Lehman Brothers, Mr. Levy was a Director of Telecommunications Research at Salomon Brothers, Managing Director and Head of the Communications Research Team at Oppenheimer & Co. and a senior communications analyst at Hambrecht & Quist. He is currently a Board Member of Zhone Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZHNE), Tut Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: TUTS), and PCTEL, Inc. (Nasdaq: PCTI). Mr. Levy received his M.B.A. and his B.S. in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1980 and 1978, respectively.

“GENBAND has established itself as a media gateway leader and the VoIP winner with PON deployments at some of the largest carriers in the world,” said Steve Levy. “With GENBAND’s expanding its product line into signaling, softswitching, and enhanced IP applications, the company is in a unique industry position as a private company being able to deliver a broad range of IMS-based solutions to wireline, cable and wireless carriers worldwide.”

About GENBAND™
GENBAND is a leading provider of telecommunications infrastructure products enabling converged services for over 85 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