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Siemens Communications is one of the largest players in the global telecommunications industry. Siemens is the only provider in the market that offers its customers a full-range portfolio, from devices for end users to complex network infrastructures for enterprises and carriers as well as related services. Siemens Communications is the world's innovation leader in convergent technologies, products and services for wireless, fixed and enterprise networks. It is the largest Group within Siemens and operates in more than 160 countries around the world. In fiscal 2004 (year-end September 30), its 60,000-strong workforce posted sales of approximately 18 billion euros. Further information about Siemens Communications is available at www.siemens.com/communications.

The emerging market of Smart Home provides excellent opportunities for carriers to deliver new types of value-added services.

Smart Home Solutions by SURPASS is part of the SIEMENS-wide product strategy for provision of seamless interoperability between all intelligent devices in the home. This Siemens Smart Home initiative sets a new trend in domestic usage of communications, entertainment and home automation. It provides true added value to end users, offering completely new experiences in lifestyle, convenience, security and healthcare athome.

Smart Home Solutions by SURPASS enable carriers to win the maximum home revenue share through new added value services that are of great importance to end users.

SURPASS Carrier Ethernet solutions by Siemens set a new trend in broadband services.

Once-separate networks for business and residential services are now merging, enhancing classical Ethernet with the latest technologies for packet-based access, aggregation and service provisioning. These true carrier-grade solutions lay the foundation for flexible and cost-effective Next Generation Networks. Carrier Ethernet by Siemens offers a comprehensive carrier-grade "first and second mile" portfolio, providing broadband services for consumers and enterprises on a converged network with an unmatched total cost of ownership.

This complete portfolio range from DSLAM with latest DSL technology up to high-end aggregation switches, all included in the advanced OAM&P solution "Advanced Provisioning Manager APM-E" and allows to reduce CAPEX and OPEX significantly.

The combination of broadband Internet access together with the most available end user device - the television set - makes the SURPASS Home Entertainment Solution attractive to both the end customer and the carrier.

The benefits obtained are twofold. The end customer easily can enjoy entertainment services (Video on Demand, Yesterday's TV, Gaming, Internet on TV or Walled Garden) and the Video Telephony on TV communication service. These easy-to-use services are available to any subscriber with a television set and a digital subscriber line (DSL). The SURPASS Home Entertainment Solution transforms any television set into a true entertainment and communications center.

The benefits for the carrier or service provider include easy deployment over the existing broadband access infrastructure (for example DSL), fast time to market and flexible network expansion with seamless integration into the operator's environment.

SURPASS Home Entertainment provides an attractive, easy, and future-proof entry to the evolving market of operator-managed home services.