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Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. Announces General Availability of the NET VX400 Tactical Voice Exchange for Government, Defense and First-Responder Customers

Posted on: Monday, 10 July 2006, 15:00 CDT

Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:NWK), a global supplier of VoIP-enabled multi-service network exchange systems and DTECH LABS, Inc., a provider of secure, mobile communications products announced today the general availability of the NET VX400 Tactical Voice Exchange. The VX400 is the first deployment of NET's Voice Exchange (VX) VoIP software platform on DTECH LABS' 2nd generation mobile VoIP hardware platform. The VX Software platform is based on NET's award winning SHOUT VoIP technology.

Targeted at the tactical government, military and first-responder markets, the VX400 offers the full set of VX software functionality already available in the VX900T Secure VoIP Gateway, developed jointly between NET and DTECH LABS in 2005. Whereas the VX900T is geared to support between 5 and 120 users, the VX400 is designed to support 1-4 tactical secure call users, plus data, over an IP-based satellite network infrastructure. Both products are fully compatible with NET's VX Series Voice Exchange switches, providing end-to-end, tactical-to-fixed site connectivity. Both firms will offer the platform to their respective customers. NET will offer the product as the VX400 and DTECH LABS as the WHISPER400.

"The VX400 adds an important element to our product portfolio, enabling us to deliver the complete functionality and value-add of our VX Software platform to the small, tactical team," said Gary Lau, president of NET Federal. "By deploying this capability to the farthest reaches of the mobile network, we can enable a complete end-to-end VoIP solution that provides robust, bandwidth-efficient secure call capabilities."

The VX400 Secure VoIP platform was designed to meet the growing demand for mobile secure telephone unit (STU), secure terminal equipment (STE) and secure communications interoperability protocol (SCIP) (or future narrow band digital terminal (FNBDT)) calling over emerging broadband global area networks (BGAN) and very small aperture (VSAT) IP-based satellite networks. The VX VoIP software is not only extremely bandwidth-efficient, but it also offers the industry's best network fault-tolerant capabilities for secure calls -- including data compression, forward error correction, echo cancellation and jitter correction -- all critical factors when operating in tactical, high-latency or unpredictable network environments.

Robert Denson, president of DTECH LABS, said, "Our customer base is continually seeking technology that is smaller, faster and lighter -- in a word, more responsive to the threats that we face today. Our new WHISPER400 hardware platform, coupled with NET's VX software, helps them to meet these goals. When combined with our remote satellite communications kits, the solution becomes a high-availability, low-power communications system that allows the tactical user to take their secure communications capabilities with them, wherever their mission may lead."

About Network Equipment Technologies, Inc.

Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of multi-service network exchange solutions that enable flexible, cost-effective network evolution. A pioneer of the networking industry, NET has been delivering secure voice and data solutions to government and commercial customers for over 20 years. Visit www.net.com for more information.

About DTECH LABS, Inc.

DTECH LABS, Inc. is a provider of specialized secure, mobile communications and networking equipment that enables its customers to operate in extreme and unpredictable environments. A focus on smaller, faster and lighter technologies, along with DTECH LABS' own power management technologies, ensures that our customers can communicate securely, anywhere, anytime. Visit www.dtechlabs.com for more information.

NET, VX, VX Series, and SHOUT are trademarks of Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. WHISPER is a trademark of DTECH LABS, Inc.

Source: Business Wire

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