Sunnyvale, CA – February 17, 2009 –  ANDA Networks, the leader in carrier-class Ethernet access network platforms, has announced that Alpheus Communications, a provider of telecommunications and data center services for enterprises and carriers has chosen ANDA's market leading EtherReach 2000 network termination equipment (NTE) to support access to its extensive 5,700 mile fiber network. ANDA enables Alpheus to rapidly deploy and extend its Ethernet service reach while providing scalable managed bandwidth solutions to help its customers respond to changes in their businesses easily.

With collocations in more than 85% of the AT&T central offices in six of the largest cities in Texas (Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Houston and San Antonio), Alpheus uses the ANDA equipment to help lower operating expenses while increasing the management functionality across its carrier-class Ethernet service offerings. The EtherReach 2000 series provides a feature-rich Operations Administration & Maintenance (OA&M) platform for managing and optimizing flexible Ethernet bandwidth offerings over existing PDH circuits thus enabling Alpheus to easily bring its customers' IT users together on one seamless Ethernet network.

"ANDA Networks has helped us to extend our Ethernet service reach while assuring high network availability and manageability for our enterprise and carrier customers," notes Francisco Maella, Chief Operating Officer of Alpheus Communications. "Whether EtherReach is placed in our data center, at the customer's location or one of our wholesale carrier customer's locations, we are able to exceed customer expectations with regard to SLAs and network reliability."

ANDA gear easily integrates with any vendor's switches, routers and upstream equipment through adherence to Metro Ethernet Forum MEF 9, and MEF 14 certifications across all ANDA's products. "The market for Carrier Ethernet switch/routers (CESRs) now exceeds $500 million per quarter, and should remain stable even in the current economic environment," said Stan Hubbard, Senior Analyst for Heavy Reading and author of the CESR Quarterly Market Tracker. "ANDA's interoperability with the leading CESRs provides carriers with the ability to work in a multi-vendor environment."

Alpheus is deploying ANDA's Ethernet over PDH gear, which was recognized by Heavy Reading's Carrier Ethernet Access Platform (CEAP) Quarterly Market Tracker as the mid-2008 market share leader. This exceptionally efficient network platform is ideally suited for carrying converged IP traffic including VoIP, content distribution, bandwidth intensive video, P2P, and mobile data backhaul traffic. Alpheus is using EtherReach's capabilities to manage last-mile access technologies in conjunction with its Last Mile Toolkit, which can be used across multiple media types.

"Alpheus's deployment reinforces ANDA's commitment for continued innovation to help meet the needs of our carrier customers with regards to cost effectively expanding their service footprint while continuing to add the latest Ethernet service management features," notes Greg Gum, Chief Marketing Officer of ANDA Networks. "As customers' bandwidth demands require increased network capacity, visibility, and flexibility, ANDA provides carriers with a rapid return on CAPEX investment (typically within 3 months) while also enabling carriers to minimize their OPEX through integration of rich OA&M remote management and monitoring features".


About ANDA Networks

ANDA Networks, Inc., headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, provides carrier-class Ethernet platforms delivering cost-effective Metro Ethernet services over fiber, copper and wireless access networks worldwide. Over 18,000 platforms deployed on tier-one carriers' networks globally, ANDA's Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) certified access products allow carriers to solve bandwidth and functionality limits, effectively facilitating migration to next-generation network services. The ANDA EtherTone® family of products enable carriers to deliver Ethernet private lines, converged VoIP, and circuit-to-packet managed services by leveraging highly economical Ethernet technology. For more information, please visit http://www.andanetworks.com.

About Alpheus Networks

Alpheus is a provider of telecommunications and data center services for enterprises and carriers. As the competitive fiber backbone for Metro Texas, Alpheus is in a unique position to supply resilient data center platforms as well as support services that help businesses focus on their goals and operations, not their IT. Alpheus serves enterprise customers in the Healthcare, Energy, Banking, IT and Legal fields.

As an optical network provider for backhaul, transport and outsourced fault management service, Alpheus is flexible, content neutral and responsive to customer needs. It delivers metro transport to end-user building, cell sites, carrier hotels, microwave relay points, and Wi-Fi hotspots. Alpheus is a joint venture between El Paso Corporation, a fortune 500 energy company, and Genesis Park, LP, a regional, Houston-based private equity firm. For more information, please visit www.alpheuscommunications.com