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Press Release

Wellington, 1 January 2006

Network Recovery When Disaster Strikes

Cover Story Article by NetworkAdvantage publised in APSCC Jan'06 Newsletter.

The January 2006 Newsletter of the Asia-Pacific Satellite Communications Council included an article by Michael Elwood-Smith, CEO of NetworkAdvantage within the feature topic of “Disaster Prevention and Recovery via Satellite”.

Event

Singapore, 27-29 September 2005

NetworkAdvantage™Attended APSCC 2005.

NetworkAdvantage™ attended the 2005 APSCC conference in coordination with SingTel.

Michael Elwood-Smith, CEO, participated in conference Session 3: Disaster Prevention & Recovery - After the Tsunami (11:00-12:30, 28 September 2005) and presented a paper entitled "Automated Network Recovery when Disaster Strikes"

Press Release

CommunicAsia 2005, Singapore, 14 June 2005

NetworkAdvantage™ Launch Product To Assist Satellite Network Operators Reduce Cost Of Unused Bandwidth

NetworkAdvantage™ Corporation Limited, a leading satellite communications management system developer, today announced the launch of it's Transponder Grooming product. This product will have a significant impact to Satellite Network Operators in reducing overhead costs of unused bandwidth.

Press Release

Wellington, 9 June 2005

NetworkAdvantage™ And SingTel Launch Automatic Network Disaster Recovery Service

NetworkAdvantage™ Corporation announce today their cooperation with Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel), Asia's leading communications group, in launching a Critical Circuit Network Recovery Service. Managed from Singapore, the Critical Circuit Network Recovery Service is a cost-effective satellite backup solution protecting customer's critical circuits between any customer location at any bandwidth - automatically.

Press Release

Wellington, 20 April 2005

ITP Asia Publish Article "Sharing Satellite Bandwidth"

An article has been published by ITP Asia within their "Satellite Technology and Services" publication, a prestigious industry journal commissioned by UNESCAP, with particular reference to Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity of telecommunications in the wake of the tsunami disaster.

Press Release

Wellington, 17 November 2004

NetworkAdvantage™ Corp's Satellite Management System Selected For Videophone Network

NetworkAdvantage™ Corp the satellite technology company based in New Zealand, has been selected by PSVN Hawaii to supply their Videophone Satellite Management System for use within the developing international public switched videophone network

Press Release

Wellington, 24 March 2004

NetworkAdvantage™ Finalist In Wellington Region Gold Business Awards.

NetworkAdvantage™ has been named a finalist in the prestigious Dominion Post Wellington region gold business awards. Within the "Discovering Gold" category, NetworkAdvantage™ Corporation has been selected for bringing to market the NetworkAdvantage™ "Satellite Bandwidth Management System".

Press Release

Washington DC, 3 March 2004

Rebirth Of The Videophone

NetworkAdvantage™ participated in the successful demo of a proposed Public Switched Videophone Network (PSVN) at Satellite 2004. The NetworkAdvantage™ software and management system was used at the core of the network to establish links over satellite between the 'Gateways'. Visitors at Satellite 2004 were able to experience making calls to a similar payphone in Oahu.

Press Release

Wellington, 31 December 2003

NetworkAdvantage™ Commissions Satellite Bandwidth-on-demand System For Automatic Circuit Restoration In Pakistan.

NetworkAdvantage™ Corporation in conjunction with LinkSat America, who acted as the prime contractor, have commissioned an automatic circuit restoration system over satellite for Cyber.Net in Pakistan. To meet their customer's needs for high availability, Cyber.Net, Pakistan's largest Internet Service Provider, chose NetworkAdvantage's™ satellite bandwidth-on-demand system to provide rapid automatic restoration of circuits between the major cities of Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad in the event of landline transmission failure. The NetworkAdvantage™ system allows Cyber.Net to share a ‘pool’ of bandwidth for ‘on-demand’ use by several backbone circuits, thereby saving satellite bandwidth costs.

"The NetworkAdvantage™ bandwidth-on-demand system has been integrated with our network management system to provide rapid and seamless restoration of our critical national backbone circuits" says M. Javed Wadood, Cyber.Net General Manager. "In addition to extending protection of our landline links to other cities, Cyber.Net are planning to offer a value-added flexible bandwidth satellite service to enterprises and organizations within Pakistan and neighbouring territories based on the NetworkAdvantage™ platform."

Marc Nadon, Vice President of Sales for LinkSat America, saw an ideal fit for the NetworkAdvantage™ solution during the early stages of Cyber.Net's network needs evaluation. "The NetworkAdvantage™ BOD system appealed to us because of its unique, highly integrated network manager. It became clear to us during our evaluation of the various solutions available that this highly flexible platform represented the best fit for our client's needs."

Press Release

Wellington, 22 December 2003

Advanced Projects International Complete Successful Test And Evaluation Program Of The NetworkAdvantage™ Satellite Bandwidth Management System.

The NetworkAdvantage™ satellite bandwidth management system has completed a successful test and evaluation program by Independent Testing Laboratories (ITL), a division of Advanced Projects International (API). The Product was developed to meet the needs of satellite service users who are demanding greater flexibility and the ability to quickly meet the needs of their customers. The NetworkAdvantage™ satellite bandwidth management provides both flexibility and offers more control over the network.

"We are very impressed by the flexibility, ease of configuration and simplicity of operation of the NetworkAdvantage™ bandwidth management system" says Garrett Hill, President, Advanced Projects International. "We believe their solution meets a real need in the market for flexible and adaptable satellite services."

"Following the successful series of tests, we see a number of synergies for our companies working together in the future, such as potential integration with the NetworkAdvantage™ platform of our Kavera Billing Software � offering a complete satellite service management system." added Hill.