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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. CONTACT: Europe: David R. Rowlands, +44 (0) 1291 626200 - office, +44 (0) 7970 213535 - mobile, or , for net.com; United States: Richard Williams, +1-919-554-3532 or , for net.com; or Investors: Brenda Ropoulos of net.com, +1-510-574-2508 or Web site: http://www.net.com/

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