Enhanced Telecommunications Corporation Deploys net.com's ShoutIP Platform for New VoIP Initiative

Enhanced Telecommunications Corporation Deploys net.com's ShoutIP
Platform for New VoIP Initiative
SHOUT900 Helps ETC Deliver Complete Business and Residential Voice Over IP
Offering 


FREMONT, Calif., Jan. 12  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Network Equipment
Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:NWK), doing business as net.com, announced today that
Enhanced Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) has selected net.com's SHOUT900
IP telephony platform for deployment in its network. The sale represents
further validation of the ShoutIP platform in the independent operating company
(IOC) market.

ETC will use the SHOUT900 as a VoIP delivery platform to offer low cost SIP
(session initiation protocol) based telephone services to its business and
residential customers throughout southeastern Indiana. SIP is the new Internet
signaling standard that enables carriers to deliver a wide variety of services
through the Internet, such as telephone service, instant messaging, IP
conferencing, presence management, etc. Additionally, ETC will use ShoutIP 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.

"net.com's SHOUT900 solution enables significant and immediate cost savings
through the use of IP technology. With the SHOUT platform in place, we can
seamlessly migrate to new features and functionalities and quickly offer new
services to our customers," said Steve Greiwe, Manager of Fixed Wireless
Solutions for ETC. "Additionally, the integration of SIP and legacy signaling
protocols like H.323 and SS7 in a single platform, along with net.com's
enhanced GUI based network configuration and management tools, will allow us to
achieve unprecedented levels of network efficiency."

About Enhanced Telecommunications Corporation:

ETC is a leading-edge telecommunications company providing both commercial and
residential customers with advanced services and dynamic customer service at
competitive prices.  Formerly Sunman Telecommunications, ETC has provided local
telephone service for over 70 years.  Services now provided include a full
spectrum of Long Distance, Digital Cable TV, High Speed Internet and Dial-up
Internet, PCS Wireless Phones, Business Phone Systems, Security Systems, Web
Management and Print Design.  ETC currently employs 67 people and has offices
in Sunman, Batesville and Greensburg, Indiana.  Over 7,000 customers spanning
the Indiana counties of Ripley, Dearborn, Decatur, and Franklin receive service
through ETC.

For further information please see the ETC web site at http://www.etczone.com/

About net.com:

Network Equipment Technologies, Inc., doing business as net.com, develops and
delivers platforms for broadband services, Internet protocol telephony, and
multiservice networks. 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:  ShoutIP is a registered trademark of, and net.com and the net.com logo
are trademarks of, Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. 

DATASOURCE: Network Equipment Technologies, Inc.



CONTACT:  Anita Fledderman, Marketing Manager of ETC, [phone], or

; or investors, Brenda Ropoulos, Director of Corporate

Relations of net.com, [phone], or ; or press,

Richard Williams of Zonic Group USA, [phone], or

, for net.com



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