deals with Ericsson in 30 countries, including two top 20 wins with wire-line carriers and three top 10 wins with mobile carriers.

Redback and Ericsson have won joint deals with fixed and mobile carriers in Armenia, Brazil, Colombia, China (including Hong Kong), the Czech Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, India, Lebanon, Morocco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Paraguay, the Philippines, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Since Redback was acquired in January 2007, two of the joint deals are with top 20 fixed operators; three other wins are with top 10 mobile operators.

“Video and mobility are driving a $9.8 billion upgrade market,” said Kevin DeNuccio, president of Redback Networks. “This represents the largest router market since the Internet was invented. A bigger opportunity ahead will be the unification of fixed and mobile communications over an Internet-based infrastructure. This is what separates Redback and Ericsson from other network vendors. We will unify residential, business and mobile networks.”

Redback has now deployed SmartEdge® routers for 16 of the top 20 telephone companies worldwide. Carriers deploying SmartEdge for triple-play services include AT&T, British Telecom, China Telecom, China Netcom, ChungHwa Telecom (Taiwan), eAccess (Japan), France Telecom, Korea Telecom, Telefonica, and Turk Telecom, among the more than 200 carriers worldwide.

Typical network applications managed by SmartEdge routers include broadband access (such as high-speed internet services), edge routing (such as VoIP and VPN services) and Ethernet aggregation (such as IPTV and other video services).