Siemens SURPASS Home Entertainment Solution Connects Fiber-to-the-Home Customers with IPTV Services in Maine

BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2006--Siemens Communications Inc., one of the leading providers of Internet protocol television (IPTV) solutions in the United States and worldwide, today announced the addition of a new regional broadband customer, Oxford Networks. With the Siemens SURPASS(R) Home Entertainment portfolio of IPTV solutions, Oxford Networks is providing advanced IP television services - via fiber to the home (FTTH) - to customers in Central and Western Maine.

"The flexibility of the Siemens SURPASS Home Entertainment solution is ideal for fiber infrastructures," said Craig Gunderson, chief operating officer, Oxford Networks. "The Siemens solution enables us to tailor the customer interface and provide an array of innovative IP video services and grow these services to match emerging customer demands for more interactive entertainment and communication home networks."

Many of Oxford Networks' customers, Gunderson noted, are already enjoying new interactive services such as on-demand entertainment, long distance learning from the home and video conferencing. Oxford Networks is now equipped to provide IPTV services to more than 7,000 of its customers.

Many service providers are turning to bandwidth-friendly FTTH networks to support emerging multimedia-hungry services, including high-definition television, and applications that enable interactive entertainment features as well as voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) communication services and, ultimately, IP Multimedia Systems (IMS) that bring together the home network with game consoles and other home devices as well as Wi-Fi connections. The SURPASS Home Entertainment solution provides flexibility for service providers to interoperate with fiber, copper and mixed infrastructure deployments.

The Siemens SURPASS Home Entertainment portfolio is built on an open, standards-based architecture that enables efficient back-office management tools and building blocks for the convergence of entertainment, communications and smart home solutions. The solution includes IPTV middleware from Myrio, a Siemens company. User-friendly IPTV gateways, middleware and home network convergence are the key components of the Siemens LifeWorks(TM) vision for anytime and anywhere access to digital media.

Siemens provides end-to-end IPTV solutions to more than 75 U.S. regional operators as well as many more worldwide, including national operators such as KPN Royal Dutch Telecom and Belgacom in Europe and Advanced Datanetwork Communications (ADC) in Thailand. In December, China's Shanghai Telecom Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Media Group (SMG) announced it will be collaborating with Siemens to offer IPTV services to a market that includes 25 million broadband users and 360 million television viewers. Globally, Siemens IPTV contracts cover more than 38 million broadband lines.

About Oxford Networks

Oxford Networks is one of Maine's leading local communication providers. Founded 1900 in Buckfield, Maine, Oxford Networks serves a territory from Bangor, Maine, through Portsmouth, N.H., with its own high-speed fiber optic network. Oxford Networks also provides the first fiber-to-the-premise technology in Maine, which brings competitive choice to consumers in Cable TV, local and long distance telephone and high-speed Internet. For more information, please visit: www.oxfordnetworks.com.

About Siemens

Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) is one of the largest global electronics and engineering companies with reported worldwide sales of $96 billion in fiscal 2005. Founded nearly 160 years ago, the company is a leader in the areas Medical, Power, Automation and Control, Transportation, Information and Communications, Lighting, Building Technologies, Water Technologies and Services and Home Appliances. With its U.S. corporate headquarters in New York City, Siemens in the USA has sales of $18.8 billion and employs approximately 70,000 people throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Thirteen of Siemens' worldwide businesses are based in the United States. With its global headquarters in Munich, Siemens AG and its subsidiaries employ 460,000 people in 190 countries. For more information on Siemens in the United States: www.usa.siemens.com

About Siemens Communications Inc.

Siemens Communications Inc. offers its customers a broad portfolio of communication products and services and is a leader in convergent technologies, products and services for wireless, fixed and enterprise networks. The company's portfolio ranges from devices for end users to complex network infrastructures and complementary services for enterprises, carriers and service providers. Siemens Communications Inc. is headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla. For more information, visit www.usa.siemens.com/communications.

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