AOL, one of Germany's leading Internet companies, has chosen NetCentrex to deliver advanced residential IP telephony services

PARIS (France) April 5 (PROTEXT/PRNewswire) - AOL will useNetCentrex' MyCall(R) residential solution to introduce new SIP-based services on the German residential market.

NetCentrex(R) (http://www.netcentrex.net), the leadingenabler of converged voice-video-data networks and next-generation services, and AOL, one of Germany's leading Internetcompanies and part of the world's biggest media company TimeWarner, announced today that AOL will deliver residentialbroadband IP telephony services in Germany based on NetCentrex'MyCall(R) solution.

AOL will use the NetCentrex solution to extend existingbroadband Internet services into the voice communications market,adding value to its current offer and opening up new integratedservices.

"AOL's choice of NetCentrex was based on the company'sextensive experience and technical expertise for large scaledeployments among IP solution suppliers," states Jens Pape, VicePresident Technology and Operations, AOL Germany. "MyCall is aproven solution which enables us to introduce a wide variety ofadvanced communications services to our customers today."

"With over 1 million residential voice lines already deployedworldwide and over 40 operator references, NetCentrex' experiencein IP communications speaks for itself," states Olivier Hersent,Chairman and CTO of NetCentrex. "NetCentrex customers arecurrently activating over 4,000 voice lines per day and we aredelighted that AOL will be boosting that figure. The introductionof SIP -based IP telephony services to existing and new ADSLusers opens up new market opportunities for AOL such as VoiceMail and end-user Selfcare. Compliance with regulatoryconstraints such as Local Number Portability andLawful Intercept, will simplify commercialization."

"The deployment of NetCentrex' MyCall(R) residential solutionenables AOL to introduce a sophisticated offer on the Germanmarket," adds Boris DEZIER, General Manager Germany and CEE."Where other service providers only offer IP telephony as a 2ndline service, AOL delivers voice with the quality level ofa normal ISDN line. This enables the company to target existingand new subscribers, to differentiate their offer on acompetitive market and generate ARPU within a long term,profitable service strategy."About NetCentrex(TM) (http://www.netcentrex.net)NetCentrex develops unique next generation network (NGN) voiceand video solutions that optimize network infrastructure andenable telecom operators and service providers to deliver voice-video-data and fixed-mobile converged services for both theconsumer and enterprise markets.

Solutions include IP telephony, video telephony, Triple Play,IP Centrex, voice/video VPN, contact center and IVR services. Allsolutions are built on the same IMS compliant infrastructure thatincludes softswitching, media services and management. This coreinfrastructure provides user services, network connectivity,single point of provisioning and monitoring.

Founded in 1998, NetCentrex has sales and partnerrepresentatives in over 25 countries and over 40 operator andservice provider customers. Leading European and US venturecapital firms back the privately held company.About AOL Germany

AOL Germany is one of Germany's leading Internet companiesand part of the world's biggest media company Time Warner. Eachmonth, AOL Germany reaches more than 7.1 million people (dieinternet facts der AGOF, 09/04) with its AOL-, CompuServe- andNetscape-branded Internet sites. AOL Germany has around 2.8million members. As a media platform, AOL is one of theleading online marketing companies in Germany. Founded in 1995,the company is headquartered in Hamburg and a staff ofapproximately 1,400. With over 30 million members worldwide, AOLis the world's biggest provider of Internet services.Source: NetCentrexNetCentrex EMEA & APAC, Madeleine Jeavons, Tel: +33-1-58-71-33-28, madeleine.jeavons@netcentrex.net ; NetCentrex Americas, SusanStearman, Tel: +1-408-521-7421, susan.stearman@netcentrex.net,Email: pr@netcentrex.net, Web site : http://www.netcentrex.net ;AOL Germany, Tobias Riepe, Tel : +49-(0)40-361-59-76-00,aolpresse@aol.com

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