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Lennon Telephone Chooses Joint net.com/Pannaway Solution for Delivery
of Feature-Rich VoIP Services http://www.net.com
SHOUT2500 Helps Deliver Complete Business and Residential Voice Over
IP Over Hybrid Fiber-Coaxial Cable in Central Michigan
FREMONT, Calif. and PORTSMOUTH, N.H., April 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- net.com (NYSE: NWK), a global supplier of adaptive broadband
technology, and Pannaway Technologies, Inc., designers and developers
of converged broadband voice, video and data platforms, jointly
announced today that Lennon Telephone Company, established in 1918 and
under its current ownership since 1946, has selected net.com's
SHOUT2500, a highly integrated IP telephony provisioning platform
delivering unprecedented cost-performance metrics, for delivery of
Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) services to business and
residential customers within their local exchange.
Lennon Telephone and its subsidiaries will use the SHOUT2500 as a VoIP
delivery platform to deliver low cost SIP (Session Initiation
Protocol) based telephone features and services to its business and
residential customers. SIP is the Internet signaling standard that
enables carriers to deliver a wide variety of services through the
Internet, such as telephone service, instant messaging, IP
conferencing, and presence management. Additionally, Lennon Telephone
will be able to use SHOUT to convert Internet-based calls to the
public telephone network (VoIP to PSTN) and vice versa, as well as
interconnect with legacy H.323 IP networks.
Pannaway's Service Convergence Network (SCN(TM)) is a highly
manageable end-to-end all IP solution that enables telcos to deliver
high quality voice, video and data services over a single broadband
connection. At the heart of the SCN, is Pannaway's Call Control
Manager (CCM(TM)) which is a SIP registration server, proxy server,
feature server and billing mediation platform that routes all calls,
provides advanced CLASS features and delivers billing information for
the SCN.
"The Pannaway-net.com solution enables significant and immediate cost
savings through the use of IP technology, as well as rapid development
of new features and services. For example, with this solution in
place, we are in a position to deliver traditional voice services via
our hybrid fiber-coax system," said Tom Bowden, Vice President of
Lennon Telephone. "Additionally, the integration of SIP and legacy
signaling protocols like H.323 and SS7 in a single platform, along
with the SHOUT platform's enhanced GUI based network configuration and
management tools, will allow us to quickly deliver these services to
our customers."
About Pannaway
Pannaway Technologies designs the industry's first carrier-class
end-to-end IP solution for converged voice, video and data service
delivery. Pannaway's innovative technology enables telecommunications
companies worldwide to deliver unified services to homes and
businesses at a fraction of their historical costs. The privately held
company was founded in April 2002 and is headquartered in Portsmouth,
New Hampshire. Its founding management team, with over 90 years of
collective experience in the industry, has played a pioneering role in
the telecommunications equipment sector. For more information, visit
http://www.pannaway.com.
About net.com
Network Equipment Technologies, doing business as net.com, is a
leading provider of networking equipment that enables enterprises,
governments and carriers to adapt to a broadband future. An architect
of the networking industry, net.com has been supplying service
providers, governments and enterprises around the world with
bulletproof networking technology for more than 20 years. net
performance. net results. net.com. Visit http://www.net.com for more
information.
NOTE: net.com and SHOUT are trademarks of Network Equipment Technologies,
Inc.
SOURCE Network Equipment Technologies, Inc.
Web Site: http://www.net.com
How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home:
http://michigantelephone.mi.org/distribute.html
If you live in Michigan, subscribe to the MI-Telecom group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MI-Telecom/
Jack Decker (jack-yahoogroups@withheld_on_request)