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Amedia Provides Industry's Most Versatile Solution for Telephone Companies

Posted on: Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 09:00 CST

Amedia Networks, Inc. (OTCBB:AANI), a provider of home gateways and switched Ethernet ultra-broadband solutions, today announced the introduction of the Industry's most versatile and efficient solution for telephone companies seeking to provide Triple Play services to the approximately 24% of U.S. households living in Multiple Dwelling Units. With Amedia's MDUstream(TM) solution, service providers can deliver voice over IP, broadband data, and IP Video services over an optical fiber to a building complex, and then further distribute those services to each individual living unit via existing intra-building telephone wires or other media. Amedia's solution eliminates the need for disruptive and expensive re-cabling of that building in order for telephone companies to provide their subscribers with Triple Play services.

The availability of 100Mbps both to and from each subscriber over, for example, the existing telephone wires means that each living unit could obtain services for multiple High Definition Televisions, High Definition Digital Video Recorders, IP or regular telephones, and computers or other data devices with either wired or wireless connections. The availability of an "upstream" 100 Mbps means that subscribers could send video - including the High Definition video content increasingly available with the proliferation of low-cost consumer HD Camcorders - to others on the broadband network. It also provides the flexibility for building managers to deploy a wide range of video channels of local interest to the building's residents.

MDUstream is a modular solution that terminates Gigabit Ethernet on a newly released version of Amedia's AS5000 in the basement, the roof-top or other location within a building, and then distributes this bandwidth over existing media that might exist in that building, including telephone wires (using VDSL2) as well as fiber and CAT 5 cables. The modular design of the solution allows a service provider to incur only the costs associated with just the line cards necessary to serve their current share of the residents of a given building. A newly released version of Amedia's PG1000 Premises Gateway in each living unit can integrate all of the functions of a VDSL2 modem, a broadband router, a wireless access point, a telephone access point, and several other Local Area Network (LAN) devices - all in the worlds most efficient and compact gateway package.

The MDUstream solution:

-- Provides fiber to the MDU using standard GbE connections

-- Supports full Triple Play Services with its symmetrical 100 Mbps capacity to each living unit

-- Distributes services over existing telephone wires, CAT5 cables, or other media within the building eliminating the need for costly re-wiring

-- Supports wireless routing using 802.11b/g, and is enabled for future Super-g and n.

-- Incorporates Amedia's industry leading QoStream(TM) service quality management

-- Provides video IPTV multicasting for broadcast and PPV channels right at the MDU

-- Can be configured with diverse GbE routing and distributed backup DC power to enable high service availability

-- Distributes call processing for economic operations

On average, about 24% of U.S. prospective subscribers live in MDUs, with that percentage being as much as 61% in the New York metropolitan area and 40% in the Los Angeles area. MDUstream now enables telephone companies to provide the same service capabilities to subscribers living in MDUs as they do in their Fiber-to-the-Home system, but over the existing copper wire telephone lines or other media already in place within the building.

Frank Galuppo, President and CEO of Amedia noted, "We believe that our solution will help carriers address one of the more competitive areas that they are likely to encounter in their triple play roll-out plans. This segment, the MDUs, is too large and too significant to leave on the table for very long."

About Amedia Networks, Inc.

Amedia designs and develops single family, building, and other ultra-broadband service gateways and switched Ethernet solutions. These secure and flexible solutions are used by network operators deploying Fiber-to-the-Premises, Fiber-to-the-Building, or Fiber-to-the-Node infrastructures to offer their residential and business subscribers high-speed data, IP video, and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services in a highly cost effective manner. For more information about Amedia Networks, please visit www.amedia.com.

This press release may contain "forward-looking" statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. A number of factors could cause Amedia's actual results to differ from anticipated results expressed in such forward-looking statements. Such factors are addressed in Amedia's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (available at www.sec.gov). Amedia assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.

Source: Business Wire

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