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by admin
August 28, 2004

Robert Sparks, co-author of the core SIP specification, co-chair of the SIMPLE
working group and coordinator of the SIPit events, joins Xten as CTO

Santa Clara, August 26, 2004 – /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Xten (OTCBB: XNWK) announced, today, the appointment of Robert Sparks to the post of Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Sparks has been working in the computer and communications industry since 1982. He has spent the last 5 years designing and developing SIP-based IP communications infrastructure. Recently he has been an active contributor to IETF protocol development, with a strong focus on improving interoperability of SIP and SIMPLE implementations. Rob Raymond will stay on with Xten as Vice President of Engineering.

“People are changing the way they communicate. The Internet, and technologies like SIP are giving us new ways to reach our peers and family that are more natural to use.” said Robert Sparks, chief technology officer of Xten. “Xten’s phenomenal endpoint is leading this revolution.”

“Robert is a leader and innovator in IP communications. He is well known for his ongoing contributions in SIP and SIMPLE, technologies that form part of the essence of Xten,” said Erik Lagerway, president and chief operating officer of Xten. “We are honored and excited to have Robert lead our team. You can expect more great things from Xten in the coming months!”

About Robert Sparks

Mr. Sparks has spent the past 4 years as a principal engineer with dynamicsoft, Inc., where he was responsible for system architecture development. Prior to dynamicsoft, Mr. Sparks was a senior engineer with MCI WorldCom, where he was co-designer of MCIW’s SIP-based IP communications infrastructure; responsible for driving vendor development of SIP business telephones; and created and maintained a PC SIP user agent for use in interoperability testing and SIP/RTP protocol research. Prior to MCIW, Mr. Sparks was part of the Admin Foundation Team at Lucent Technologies, Netcare Messaging Services, where he performed design and development of the next generation of NMS’s core business tool (an automated voice-mail system and subscriber management system). Mr. Sparks is an active contributor to many IETF working groups.

About Xten®

Xten is a developer of award-winning, high-quality, carrier-grade SIP-based Voice and Video over IP software and softphones for service providers, cable operators, internet telephony service providers and OEMs. Through its deployments with leading service providers, Xten has more than 400,000 IP endpoints deployed worldwide. For more information please visit www.xten.com. You may also visit Xten COO, Erik Lagerway’s blog at www.sipthat.com.

For more information, please contact:

Xten Networks, Inc.
Mark Bruk, CEO
+1.408.876.4344
mark@xten.com

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In (partial) praise of IPaq 6315

by admin
August 24, 2004

Okay I got to use the iPaq 6315 for about a week and have some impressions. I think if you are a PC user, and have a user-friendly tech-support department, then this is a good device for you to carry on day trips. I got to configure and use it with my T-Mobile service within minutes, since most of the settings come preloaded into the device. The software collection that is bundled with this device will meet most of your needs. The new device is a quad-band global communicator, and can roam seamlessly from one corner of the world to the other. It is also quite easy to connect with the T-Mobile hotspots. I tried to connect with a bluetooth headset from Plantronics, with success in less than ten minutes. The thumb board provided with the device is good enough for answering emails and sending quick SMS messages. I installed the XTen softphone on the device, and boom I was making VoIP calls using my Vonage account.

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Feature-Rich VOIP in the Works

by admin
August 23, 2004

With voice-over-IP services popping up like summer weeds, providers are predicting that rich feature sets will ultimately win new customers.

To that end, WorldWide Telco Inc. plans to unveil a series of features over the next two months. The New York-based vendor has developed its own telecommunications software platform and customer premises equipment to provide a service it calls wIPphone.

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Qualcomm Conducts VoAirplane Test

by admin
August 23, 2004

Taken from GekoNews

On July 15, Qualcomm conducted a wireless VoIP test on an American Airlines commercial airplane, enabling passengers with commercially available CDMA mobile phones to place and receive calls and text messages in-flight. The technology employed Qualcomm’s 3G picocell network and UTStarcom’s Moving Media 2000 softswitch to support a VoIP connection between an in-cabin CDMA cellular base station and an air-to -ground Globalstar satellite link.

Boeing conducted a similar VoAirplane test last month, supporting in-flight PC to phone connectivity on a Lufthansa aircraft using Xten’s softphone.

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POPstar Selects Xten(R) Soft Phones For People Line Broadband Phone Service

by admin
August 20, 2004

POPstar Communications Canada, an IP Telephony solutions provider, selects Xten Networks (OTCBB: XNWK – News) Soft Phones and Xtunnels for People Line broadband telephony services. People Line services launched in Vancouver, Canada, earlier this month and will roll out in other cities later in 2004/2005.

Russ McDermott, Director of People Line states, “We’re excited about Xten’s soft phones. When they’re combined with our desktop email/fax services, we can offer customers an affordable, full-featured, ‘virtual’ phone/fax call center on a PC, without requiring dedicated phone lines or hardware such as adapters, phones, or fax machines.” Xten’s Xtunnels allows customers to use the soft phones behind firewalls.

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