U.S. Marine Corps Selects net.com's Promina and SHOUT Platforms for Joint Enhanced Core Communications System

U.S. Marine Corps Selects net.com's Promina and SHOUT Platforms
for Joint Enhanced Core Communications System
Initial Order of 11 Promina and SHOUT900 Units to Help Deliver Enhanced
Connectivity Between Land- and Sea-Based Military Forces 


DULLES, Va., Feb. 1  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- N.E.T. Federal, a subsidiary of
Network Equipment Technologies, Inc., d.b.a. net.com (NYSE:NWK) and a leading
network equipment and solutions provider to the federal and defense
marketplace, today announced that the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command has
selected both its Promina multiservice access and SHOUT900 IP telephony
platforms for domestic and overseas deployment in the Joint Enhanced Core
Communications System (JECCS).  The initial order for 11 JECCS units is valued
at approximately $3 million.

JECCS, a Humvee-mounted multifunctional communications system, enables deployed
forces to establish mobile network connectivity between land and sea
operations.  It leverages the Promina platform to provide both secure and
non-secure voice and data telecommunications services, local area network and
network management services, messaging services and satellite capabilities for
Marine Expeditionary Units in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Camp Pendleton,
California and Okinawa, Japan.

"N.E.T. Federal's equipment provides us with reliable, long-term and
state-of-the-art solutions," said Chief Warrant Officer 4 Roosevelt Green III,
Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Virginia.  "When we have an emerging
requirement for lifespan equipment, N.E.T. Federal quickly responds to our
needs with solutions that give us a flexible migration path to the latest
technology."

Promina systems cost-effectively consolidate a variety of user traffic and
applications on a single platform. The Promina platform adapts to support time
division multiplexing (TDM), frame relay, integrated services digital network
(ISDN), asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) and Internet protocol (IP) transport
techniques. While leveraging the bandwidth-on-demand (BoD) benefits of frame
and cell-based solutions, Promina can configure and maintain quality of service
(QoS) guarantees for optimal application transport.

"The Marine Corps requires network solutions that enable rapid deployment and
broad communications functionality," said John Winters, vice president of
N.E.T. Federal.  "We're very pleased that our Promina and SHOUT capabilities
will help advance the efficiency and interoperability of the Marine Corps'
tactical communications system."

The award winning SHOUT platform provides a powerful voice over IP (VoIP)
solution. SHOUT offers an easy, cost effective way to provide low-cost,
high-quality voice services while simultaneously enabling new applications and
functionality.

"N.E.T. Federal has a proven track record of meeting the strict performance
requirements of the military's mission-critical field networks," said Dana
Kaeser, Project Manager with EDO Corporation, prime contractor on the JECCS
program. "Both the Promina and SHOUT900 platforms will greatly enhance the
battlefield communications infrastructure by providing reliable connectivity
among deployed forces worldwide."

About N.E.T. Federal:

N.E.T. Federal, a network equipment and solutions provider, offers government
agencies a migration path to Internet protocol (IP) technologies while
leveraging return on legacy assets such as ATM networks. For more than a
decade, N.E.T. Federal has delivered access platforms for broadband, IP
telephony, secure voice applications, and multiservice networks to defense,
intelligence and civilian agencies and international government organizations.
Customers include NATO, U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency, U.S. Air
Force, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Marine Corps and the
Federal Aviation Administration. For more information, visit
http://www.net.com/solutions/government.

About net.com

Network Equipment Technologies, Inc., doing business as net.com, develops and
delivers platforms for broadband services, 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. Visit http://www.net.com/ for more information.

NOTE:  Promina, SHOUT, net.com and the net.com logo are trademarks of Network
Equipment Technologies, Inc. 

DATASOURCE: Network Equipment Technologies, Inc.



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