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Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. ("NET") (NYSE: NWK) today announced that Albany International Corp., a global leader in advanced textiles and materials processing, is deploying NET's VX Series Unified Communications Gateways worldwide as its strategic VoIP solution.

Albany's VoIP implementation is part of the company's broader strategy to support its global operations with shared, centralized services for procurement, finance, and customer care. To ensure effective, cost-efficient communication between its internationally dispersed operations and these shared service teams, Albany is integrating VoIP into its Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 (OCS) environment -- which provides features such as presence detection and Exchange-based voicemail that simplify everyday tasks and cut down on communications latency.

Albany selected the VX Series unified communications solution because of the product's support for the diverse PBXs in use across the company's 31 worldwide locations, its tight integration with Microsoft OCS and Active Directory, its robust security, its ease of management, and its differentiated call processing capabilities. Other factors supporting Albany's decision were NET's strong support services, deep convergence expertise, and long-term technology roadmap.

Albany evaluated competing solutions from all of its "short list" vendors by testing them under live conditions in its Albany, New York headquarters and Lawrenceville, Georgia data center as well as in a Kaukauna, Wisconsin manufacturing facility. NET not only validated the performance of its solution during the testing, they also demonstrated their commitment to Albany's success by being the only vendor to put highly skilled engineers on site, rather than just providing telephone support.

The VX Series was also the only tested solution with the capabilities to place seven-digit phone calls between any pair of endpoints, to include voicemails in users' Exchange mailboxes, to support presence awareness for users with IP phones, and to provide common administration with Microsoft OCS.

"When you're embarking on a project that is this complex and that can potentially have such a big impact on your company, you want to have the utmost confidence in both the technology you're using and the company behind that technology," says Barry Duncan, Vice President Information Technology for Albany. "With NET and the VX Series Unified Communications Gateway, we have that confidence."

"Albany is enhancing the productivity of its operations through the deployment of an innovative unified communications network," said Fran�ois Le, VP of Commercial and International for NET. "NET will continue to work with Albany to maximize the network's availability, ease of management, and security, and we are committed to assuring their success."

A complete case study on Albany's implementation is available online at www.net.com.

About Network Equipment Technologies, Inc.

Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. (NET) provides network and VoIP solutions to enterprises and government agencies that seek to reduce the cost to deploy next generation unified and secure communications applications. For a quarter of a century, NET has delivered solutions for multi-service networks requiring high degrees of versatility, security and performance. Today, the company's broad family of products enable interoperability and integration with existing networks for migration to secure IP-based communications. Broadening NET's voice solutions, Quintum Technologies, now a part of NET, is a VoIP innovator whose applications bring the reliability and clarity of public telephone networks to Internet telephony and unified communications. NET is headquartered in Fremont, CA and has 14 offices worldwide including the US, the UK, France, the Middle East, China, Japan, Australia, and Latin America. The company sells its solutions through a direct sales force and an international network of resellers and distributors. For more information, visit www.net.com.

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