SOMA Networks Receives 2006 Product of the Year Award from Communications Solutions

FlexMAX™ Mobile WiMAX System Honored for Outstanding Innovation

SAN FRANCISCO — May 8, 2007 — SOMA Networks, Inc., a leading provider of Mobile WiMAX technology, announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC) Communications Solutions  (www.tmcnet.com/comsol) has named SOMA’s FlexMAX Mobile WiMAX System a recipient of a 2006 Product of the Year Award.

“Naming SOMA’s FlexMax Mobile WiMAX System TMC’s WiMAX Product of the Year is recognition of our team’s innovation, dedication and hard work,” said Tom Flak, Chief Marketing Officer of SOMA Networks.  “We take pride in developing and delivering industry-leading Mobile WiMAX systems that positively impact our customers, their subscriber base and the wireless broadband market as a whole.  We are pleased to receive this confirmation of the value of SOMA’s WiMAX innovations.”

The FlexMAX Mobile WiMAX System is the industry’s first fully converged, all-IP multimedia end-to-end system that delivers a complete turnkey broadband wireless solution including: base stations, subscriber devices with fully integrated multi-media applications, wirelessly upgradeable software, and optional customer lifecycle installation and support.  Leveraging dynamic multi-antenna processing technology including AAS and MIMO, the FlexMAX System provides a single architecture that automatically adapts to rural, suburban, urban or even mixed environments to automatically maximize system throughput.

“SOMA Networks has been recognized with a 2006 Product of the Year Award for their excellence in technological advancement and application refinement,” said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Group Editor-in-Chief of Communications Solutions, “SOMA Networks has proven they are committed to quality and excellence in solutions that benefit the customer experience as well as ROI for the companies that use them.  I am pleased to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from them in the future.”

The seventh annual Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award recognizes the vision, leadership and attention to detail that are the hallmarks of the prestigious award. The most innovative products and services brought to market in 2006 have been selected as recipients of this year’s Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award for their groundbreaking achievement.

The 2006 Product of the Year Award winners can be found on the Communications Solutions Web site.

About SOMA Networks
SOMA Networks is a leading provider of Mobile WiMAX solutions.  Focused on bringing broadband wireless access and advanced applications to the home, SOMA’s FlexMAX™ Mobile WiMAX and SoftAir™ Multimedia Application Systems provide a complete solution using an all IP-based architecture.  SOMA technology enables service providers to drive revenue through value-added multimedia applications and services, delivering wireline performance over a broadband wireless infrastructure.  SOMA is a principal member of the WiMAX Forum®, and its FlexMAX Mobile WiMAX System supports the 802.16e-2005 Mobile WiMAX standard.  Deployed on five continents, SOMA is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Toronto, Ottawa, Delhi, and Singapore.  Visit www.somanetworks.com for more information.

About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Inter@ction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine, http://www.tmcnet.com/sipIMS Magazine and Unified Communications (launching summer 2007). TMCnet, TMC’s Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 0.003 percent of sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves nearly two million unique visitors each month, according to WebTrends. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, Communications Developer ConferenceIMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical online newsletters. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.)

For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

SOMA Networks Contact:
Adrienne Low
415-882-6524
alow@somanetworks.com
TMC Contact:           
Jan Pierret
203-852-6800, ext. 228
jpierret@tmcnet.com

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