SERANOA NETWORKS APPOINTS SALLY BAMENT AS SENIOR VP OF MARKETING
Veteran Telecommunications Marketing Executive Joins Seranoa’s Management Team to Expand Market Presence

Boxborough, Mass - February 3, 2004 - Seranoa Networks, the leading provider of Service Edge Concentrators, strengthened its management team with the appointment of Sally Bament to Senior Vice President of Marketing.  In her new role Bament will oversee all product marketing, product management and marketing communications initiatives, helping to expand Seranoa’s presence among leading global Service Providers.

“We are excited to have a technology marketing expert like Sally join our team,” said Graham Pattison, CEO at Seranoa. “As we move into the next stage at Seranoa and focus on customer deployments and commercial operations, Sally will play a pivotal role in expanding our presence and marketing our solutions to Service Providers looking for a more efficient way to improve service delivery as well as to decrease deployment and operational costs.”

Sally Bament has over 20 years of marketing, product and engineering management experience in the telecommunications industry. Most recently, Sally was Vice President of Marketing for Convergent Networks, a leading provider of broadband voice infrastructure solutions for competitive carriers, where she launched and positioned the company as a high-profile early leader, and contributed to shipping over two million ports of the company’s voice-over-packet media gateway products. Prior to Convergent, Sally served as Vice President of Product Management at Wellfleet Communications/Bay Networks, and following its acquisition, at Nortel Networks. During Sally’s tenure at Bay Networks/Wellfleet  she was responsible for executing short and long term product plans for the company’s IP and routing product division contributing in excess of $600M annually from worldwide sales to enterprise and carrier customers. Sally has also held several management positions with Coral Networks and Motorola Codex Corporation.

“Seranoa’s ability to deliver a unique and simple solution for IP Service Providers to dramatically cut costs and deliver new and valuable business-class services was very exciting to me as a telecommunications executive,” said Sally Bament, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Seranoa.  “Seranoa has a great opportunity to provide real, measurable value to Service Providers today, and in the future, in the fast growing IP edge aggregation market, and I am looking forward to working with the team here to execute strategic marketing programs that support these efforts.”

About Seranoa Networks
Seranoa Networks, Inc. (http://www.seranoa.com/)  develops a family of carrier-class service edge concentration products enabling Service Providers to cost-effectively deliver increasingly popular IP services (such as VoIP), along with traditional services to business subscribers, while facilitating an eventual convergence to an IP core data network architecture. Seranoa addresses the aggregation of IP and traditional services using a unique combination of layer 2 switching, intelligent data and voice grooming, Ethernet and copper or optical access technologies. Our unique technology delivers unprecedented performance, functionality and value to our customers. Seranoa Networks is located in Boxborough, Massachusetts.

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