FRISCO, Texas -- GENBAND, a leading developer of IMS and cloud communicationssolutions, today announced its Making Networks Smarter vision and solutions for service providers,channel partners and the enterprise and consumer markets they serve. This initiative marks the continuedevolution of GENBAND‘s market-leading portfolio under three strategic solution pillars that enable aSMART CORE, SMART EDGE and SMART EXPERIENCE for its customers."GENBAND‘s growth has been built around close and continual interaction with our customers, andfueled by technologies developed to solve critical business challenges and redefine the user experience forthe 21st century at work, home and on-the-go,‖ said Charlie Vogt, President and CEO of GENBAND. ―Asservice providers relentlessly work to meet market challenges, they require smarter networks withsoftware, solutions and intelligence that span multiple technology and compatibility chasms at the core,edges and application layers of networks. Today, we are unveiling our ‗Making Networks Smarter‘ visionand solution innovations in IMS, RCS, VoLTE, Interconnect, SIP Trunking and MultimediaCommunications. These solutions are required by our customers to deliver superior user experiences thatmake their networks and service offerings more secure, scalable, efficient and profitable.""Even the most sophisticated service providers are being challenged with a new wave of competition,shifting market dynamics and the ever-increasing demands of both consumers and enterprises,‖ saidJeremy Duke, Chief Analyst & Founder, Synergy Research Group. ―It is not about selling boxes anymore,but rather providing a flexible and rich software architecture that allows clients to meet the challenges anddemands of carrier-scale multimedia. GENBAND‘s Smart Networks solutions provide a unique andexciting set of resources to enable service providers and enterprises to drive cloud-based and IP solutionsto their customers."Genband Inc.