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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. CONTACT: Tonya Bacon of Strategic Communications Group, +1-301-408-4500, or , for N.E.T. Federal; or Richard Williams of Zonic Group, +1-919-554-35-32, or , for net.com; or investors, Brenda Ropoulos, Director of Corporate Relations of net.com, +1-510-574-2508, or Web site: http://www.net.com/

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