SCT Telecom Relies on net.com's ShoutIP Platform to Lower Telecom Costs Across France

SCT Telecom Relies on net.com's ShoutIP Platform to Lower Telecom
Costs Across France 


FREMONT, Calif., Jan. 19  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Network Equipment
Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:NWK) announced today that SCT Telecom, a national
provider of wholesale telecommunications services in France, has deployed the
ShoutIP VoIP platform from net.com to provide low cost delivery alternatives
for mobile calls.

Founded in 1997, SCT Telecom is taking advantage of the deregulated telecom
market in France to provide small and medium sized businesses with low cost
telecommunication services. By developing wholesale relationships with multiple
fixed and mobile operators and leveraging the voice over IP capabilities of the
ShoutIP platform, SCT Telecom is able to provide its customers with high
quality telephone calls at the lowest applicable telecom service costs.

ShoutIP, net.com's voice over IP platform, provides enhanced call routing and
IP-to-TDM conversion to allow fixed and mobile calls to be dynamically routed
to the least-cost delivery method. Additionally, ShoutIP's BEST Signaling
Protocol (BSP) delivers advanced call compression and IP packet management,
enabling the platform to use less bandwidth and provide higher call quality
than competing solutions.

"ShoutIP provides us with high quality voice over IP services and the ability
to route calls dynamically to different operators over IP or TDM," said Mr.
Chaboisseau, CEO of SCT Telecom. "SCT selected ShoutIP because of the superior
voice quality and very fast call set up times provided by BSP."

About net.com

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

ShoutIP is a registered trademark of, and BEST, net.com, and the net.com logo
are trademarks of Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. 

DATASOURCE: Network Equipment Technologies, Inc.



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