Arcor Selects Redback SmartEdge Service Gateway Platform for Next Gene

    Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

    SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2005--Redback Networks Inc. (Nasdaq:RBAK), a leading provider of next-generation broadband networking systems, today announced that Germany's second largest fixed-line telecommunications carrier is evolving its consumer and business broadband network by adding next-generation Redback SmartEdge(R) Service Gateway systems. Arcor wants to advance its competitive position through a combination of aggressive pricing and value-added per-subscriber services enabled by the platform's high scalability and longevity to yield low infrastructure costs, flexibility and intelligence for future per-subscriber services.
    "We believe that the next-generation Redback platform can give us a sharp competitive advantage," said Georg Benzer, chief technology officer, Arcor. "With the ability to support many subscribers, services and high bandwidth on a single system and the built-in flexibility and intelligence, the SmartEdge Service Gateway platform can enable us to offer the most competitive pricing as well as provide future-proof longevity and the ability for us to deploy individualized subscriber services."
    "We are pleased to help Arcor improve its competitive position and build a strategic path for the future," said Magnus Almquist, vice president of sales and operations for Europe, Middle East Africa and India for Redback Networks. "Already Arcor has achieved a remarkable business in a very competitive market; we look forward to growing with them in the future."
    The Redback SmartEdge Service Gateway platform delivers the strength of Redback's advanced subscriber management capabilities with the SmartEdge platform's purpose-built hardware and software to provide subscriber management with dynamic policy enforcement, carrier-class IP routing, ATM mediation, MPLS VPNs, multicast and advanced video capabilities, including multicast, and high performance Quality of Service (QoS).

    About Redback Networks

    Redback Networks Inc., a leading provider of next-generation broadband networking equipment, enables carriers and service providers to build Smart Broadband Networks that can deliver simplified, personalized, portable subscriber services to consumers and businesses. The company's carrier-class, consumer-scale SmartEdge Router and Service Gateway platforms for Consumer IP combine subscriber management systems and edge routing and, in conjunction with the NetOp(TM) Element and Policy Manager platform, provide a powerful, flexible infrastructure for managing both subscribers and value-added services.
    Founded in 1996 and headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with sales and technical support centers located worldwide, Redback Networks maintains a growing and global customer base of more than 500 carriers and service providers, including major local exchange carriers (LECs), inter-exchange carriers (IXCs), PTTs and service providers. For more information, visit Redback Networks at www.redback.com.

    REDBACK and SmartEdge are trademarks registered at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. NetOp is a trademark of Redback Networks Inc. All other products or services mentioned are the trademark, service marks, registered trademarks or registered service marks of their respective owners.

    Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

    The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including statements regarding Redback Network's expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future and including, without limitation, statements regarding Arcor's evolution to the SmartEdge Service Gateway platform and the platform's ability to significantly lower infrastructure costs, offer high scalability, platform longevity, flexibility and intelligence for future value-added services as well as its ability to give a sharp competitive advantage. All forward-looking statements included in this document are based upon information available to Redback Networks as of the date hereof, and Redback Networks assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These risks and other risks relating to Redback Network's business are set forth in the documents filed by Redback Networks with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), specifically the most recent report on Form 10-K, Form 10-Q, Form 8-K, Redback's Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-114352), and amendments thereto, and the other reports filed from time to time with the SEC.

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