Nuevatel SHOUTS 'Viva VoIP!' Bolivian Carrier Delivers VoIP and Calling Card Services With net.com's SHOUT Platform

Nuevatel SHOUTS 'Viva VoIP!' Bolivian Carrier Delivers VoIP and
Calling Card Services With net.com's SHOUT Platform
Company Exhibits Fully-Integrated VoIP Solution at Spring VON This Week 


FREMONT, Calif., March 8  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- net.com (NYSE:NWK)
announced today that Viva GSM de Nuevatel S.A., the first GSM operator in
Bolivia, will deliver voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) to its customers in
the six largest cities in Bolivia using net.com's SHOUT media gateway platform.
Nuevatel is also delivering prepaid phone card services to its customers using
the IVR capabilities in SHOUT. In the near future, Nuevatel will also release
enhanced voice services using SHOUT, including unified messaging, CENTREX, and
web phone.

Nuevatel will use the integrated voice gateway and signaling support of the
SHOUT platform to interconnect SS7/C7 signaling with leased T1/E1 circuits to
connect all of its locations throughout Bolivia.

SHOUT combines the functionality of a media gateway, call control component,
SS7/C7 signaling point, H.323/SIP inter-working device and media server in a
single, compact chassis. SHOUT supports a wide range of voice and call routing
features; conformance to the latest VoIP signaling and call control standards
guarantees interoperability within multivendor VoIP deployments.

According to Jorge Terrazas, chief technical officer of Nuevatel, "The fully
integrated SHOUT platform is a big benefit to Nuevatel as it enables us to
deliver a wide variety of services in an easy to use platform, and also enables
us to reduce the number of stand-alone elements in the network."

John Guisto, net.com's vice president of Latin America sales, commented, "We
are always pleased when a carrier opts to leverage multiple capabilities of the
SHOUT platform right away. We look forward to supporting Nuevatel as it grows
its business and expands its service capabilities."

net.com is exhibiting the fully-integrated capabilities of the SHOUT platform
for VoIP this week at Spring VON, being held at the San Jose Convention Center
in San Jose, California from Monday, March 7 until Thursday, March 10. Visit
net.com in booth 1131.

About net.com

Network Equipment Technologies, Inc., doing business as net.com, develops and
delivers service creation platforms for broadband, 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.

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