[April 13, 2005]

Lennon Telephone Picks net.com/Pannaway Solution for VoIP

BY JOHANNE TORRES

Adaptive broadband tech provider net.com and Pannaway Technologies Inc., designers and developers of converged broadband voice, video and data platforms, jointly announced today that Lennon Telephone Company selected net.com's SHOUT2500, an integrated IP telephony provisioning platform delivering what the company calls cost-performance metrics, for delivery of VoIP services to business and residential customers within their local exchange.

The new agreement will enable Lennon and its subsidiaries to use the SHOUT2500 as a VoIP delivery platform to deliver lower cost SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) based telephone features and services to its business and residential customers. SIP is the Internet signaling standard that enables carriers to deliver services through the Internet including telephone services, instant messaging, IP conferencing, and presence management. Additionally, Lennon Telephone will be able to use SHOUT to convert Internet-based calls to the public telephone network (VoIP to PSTN) and vice versa, as well as interconnect with legacy H.323 IP networks.

Pannaway's Service Convergence Network (SCN(TM)) is an end-to-end all IP solution that enables telcos to deliver high quality voice, video and data services over a single broadband connection. At the heart of the SCN, is Pannaway's Call Control Manager (CCM) which is a SIP registration server, proxy server, feature server and billing mediation platform that routes all calls, provides CLASS features and delivers billing information for the SCN.

"The Pannaway-net.com solution enables significant and immediate cost savings through the use of IP technology, as well as rapid development of new features and services. For example, with this solution in place, we are in a position to deliver traditional voice services via our hybrid fiber-coax system," said Tom Bowden, Vice President of Lennon Telephone. "Additionally, the integration of SIP and legacy signaling protocols like H.323 and SS7 in a single platform, along with the SHOUT platform's enhanced GUI based network configuration and management tools, will allow us to quickly deliver these services to our customers."

Pannaway Technologies
www.pannaway.com

net.com
www.net.com