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Net2Phone
and Navini To Offer Wireless VoIP
Companies charter the next wave of Wi-Fi expansion with telephony bundle
Newark, NJ and Richardson, TX - April 26, 2004 - Net2Phone (NASDAQ:
NTOP) and Navini Networks, a leading Non-Line-of-Sight wireless
broadband provider, today announced plans to empower wireless broadband
connectivity with telephony services. The companies will jointly
deliver Net2Phones broadband telephony services over Navinis
wireless broadband infrastructure, extending the flexibility and
mobility of VoIP calling.
Under this agreement, Navini and Net2Phone will offer VoIP telephony
solutions to Navinis wireless broadband customers.
Net2Phone has adapted its residential broadband telephony solution
called VoiceLine to enable communications over wireless IP networks.
VoiceLine provides a robust set of features and functionality, including
inbound and outbound calling with applications such as phone number
selection, call waiting, caller ID and voice mail. Calls are routed
over Navinis Wireless Metropolitan Area Network (WMAN) solution
to Net2Phones SIP-based platform, which performs call routing
and management, supplies CLASS 5 features, provides billing and
provisioning integration and distributes the infrastructure required
for interconnecting onto and off of the Public Switched Telephone
Network. Customers can place and receive local, long distance and
international phone calls miles from the Navini Ripwave Base Station
while stationary or portable throughout Navinis wireless metropolitan
area broadband network.
Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks are clearly the next
frontier for Net2Phone, as we extend our reach beyond the wired
world, said Bryan Wiener, President of Net2Phone Global Services.
Navinis technological leadership in the space and superior
support for QoS will allow Net2Phone to continue its leadership
position in providing high quality VoIP solutions to telecom and
high speed data providers across the globe.
Wide area wireless broadband has become a viable alternative for
customers to receive high-speed Internet access in rural areas and
areas with low high-speed data availability where wired broadband
is not an option. For Net2Phone, extending its retail VoIP offerings
to the wireless environment enables Net2Phone to ride the wave of
wireless broadband deployments by offering a bundle of telephony
in conjunction with a high-speed wireless data product. Further
enhancements to wireless VoIP will likely include VoIP enabled mobile
handsets that allow consumers and business users to use the VoiceLine
service anytime they are within the coverage footprint.
Net2Phones foresight to charter the wireless VoIP revolution
makes them an ideal partner for Navinis Wireless Metropolitan
Area Wireless solution, as it enables us to extend telephony to
a broader market, said Alastair Westgarth, CEO of Navini Networks.
Our service provider customers are asking for value-added
services, and we believe the converged telephony bundle will serve
as a valuable application to deliver both value and affordability.
The new relationship builds on Net2Phones strategy to enable
service providers with an outsourced telephony offering that they
can sell to their subscribers. As an enabler, Net2Phone draws on
its hosted services platform that allows the development and support
of multiple voice applications and back office integration tools
all using the same infrastructure.
About Net2Phone
Net2Phone provides PacketCable, SIP and wireless VoIP solutions
around the world. As a leader in enabling telecom service providers
and cable operators with turn-key hosted VoIP telephony services,
Net2Phone has routed billions of retail VoIP minutes globally, servicing
more than 100,000 users in the US as well as hundreds of thousands
of more overseas. Net2Phones hosted SIP platform provides
partners with residential broadband telephony, calling cards, prefix
dialing and enterprise services in over 100 countries. Net2Phones
PacketCable platform provides cable operators with the ability to
deliver a primary line replacement service with guaranteed QoS and
features such as E911. Traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol NTOP,
Net2Phone's strategic partners and investors include Liberty Media
Corporation (NYSE: L; LMC.B) and IDT Corporation (NYSE: IDT; IDT.C).
For more information about Net2Phone's products and services, please
visit www.net2phone.com <http://www.net2phone.com>.
About Navini Networks
Headquartered in Richardson, Texas, Navini Networks and its customers
have deployed wide-area wireless broadband technology delivering
multi-megabit speeds to customers in more than 25 countries worldwide.
The Navini solution is nomadic, easy to install and does not require
a line-of-sight. Navini Networks' Ripwave products consist
of a desktop modem or PCMCIA card, base station, and element management
system (EMS) and operate in various licensed and unlicensed frequencies.
Navini's investors include Austin Ventures, Granite Ventures, Sequoia
Capital, Sternhill Partners, as well as Alcatel, Intel and Sanmina.
For more information, please visit www.navini.com <http://www.navini.com>
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the
meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
These forward- looking statements involve risks and uncertainties
and actual results could differ materially from those discussed
in the forward-looking statements. For this purpose, any statements
contained in this press release that are not statements of historical
fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Factors which
may affect the Company's results include, but are not limited to,
the Company's ability to expand its customer base, the Company's
ability to develop additional and leverage its existing distribution
channels for its products and solutions, dependence on strategic
and channel partners including their ability to distribute the Company's
products and meet or renew their financial commitments, the Company's
ability to address international markets, the effectiveness of the
Company's sales and marketing activities, the acceptance of the
Company's products in the marketplace, the timing and scope of deployments
of the Company's products by customers, fluctuations in customer
sales cycles, customers' ability to obtain additional funding, technical
difficulties with respect to the Company's products or products
in development, the need for ongoing product development in an environment
of rapid technological change, the emergence of new competitors
in the marketplace, the Company's ability to compete successfully
against established competitors with greater resources, the uncertainty
of future governmental regulation, the Company's ability to manage
growth, obtain patent protection, and obtain additional funds, general
economic conditions and other risks discussed in this Press Release
and in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
All forward-looking statements and risk factors included in this
document are made as of the date hereof, based on information available
to the Company as of the date thereof, and the Company assumes no
obligation to update any forward-looking statement or risk factors.
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