Former Charter Communications Executive Steve Santamaria Named SVP and GM, Commercial Services for Xtend Networks

Former Charter Communications Executive Steve Santamaria Named SVP and GM, Commercial Services for Xtend Networks

ATLANTA, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Xtend Networks, a Vyyo company (NASDAQ:VYYO) that provides advanced broadband solutions for the cable TV industry, announced today that former Charter Communications executive Steve Santamaria will join the company as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Commercial Services.

Santamaria, who earned a Pacesetter Award earlier this year for his industry leadership in the commercial services sector while with Charter, will be responsible for all aspects of Xtend's commercial products, including the development and sales of T1 over coax, wireless T1 and T1 cellular backhaul solutions.

The sale of T1 circuits to mobile carriers for the transport of mobile voice traffic between cellular towers and switching offices represents a $20 billion opportunity for cable over the next five years, according to GeoResults, an Atlanta-based consulting firm. Additional revenue opportunities exist through the sale of T1 links to the small to medium business (SMB) market.

"Steve Santamaria has been one of the leading and most influential voices in the cable industry regarding the enormous potential of commercial services and cellular backhaul," said Davidi Gilo, Chairman and CEO of Vyyo Inc. "We anticipate that his understanding of cable operators' needs and his expertise in the commercial services sector will be key contributors to accelerated operator deployment of Xtend solutions."

"A critical need for cable system operators entering the commercial services sector has been the availability of high-quality, highly-reliable solutions that utilize existing cable infrastructure and established cable protocols," said Santamaria. "The low jitter and low latency of Xtend's DOCSIS-based products enable the cable industry for the first time to deploy true telecom-quality T1 services over existing coax or wireless."

As vice president of management service and assistant to the president with Charter, Santamaria's broad responsibilities included helping the company to leverage both its existing network and new wireless extension technologies to service the commercial market. From 2000-2002, Santamaria served as president and CEO of Last Mile Communications/Netbeam Inc., a fixed wireless startup.

Santamaria joined Liberty Media's predecessor, Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI) in 1992 as vice president and general manager of the company's Denver cable system. Over the next eight years, he added regional oversight of TCI operations throughout Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico to his responsibilities.

From 1981 until his employment by TCI in 1992, Santamaria held a variety of key senior field management positions with Group W Cable (formerly TelePrompter), United Cable Direct, Inc. and United Artist/Daniels Cable Television Companies.

Xtend's carrier class T1/E1 technology combines the company's XMTSTM family of products, headend modular systems servicing up to 56 T1 links, and the company's V3xx family of T1 modems to provide a low jitter, low latency solution that utilizes existing infrastructure and Xtend's T1 Network Management System. Xtend's T1 products have achieved certification for compliance with the Telecommunications Industry Association's TIA-968-A-3 standards from the Administrative Council for Terminal Attachment (ACTA).

To enable cable to capitalize on the growing cellular backhaul market, Xtend provides a complete value chain for the transport of mobile communications traffic from cellular towers to central switching locations. The cellular backhaul value chain capitalizes on relationships with GeoResults, Inc. for market data, MasTec, Inc. and Gibson Technical Services (GTS) for equipment installation, and Paradigm Telecom for contracts with cellular carriers.

About Vyyo Inc. and Xtend Networks, a Vyyo company

Vyyo provides cable and wireless broadband access solutions. Our products are designed for use by utilities, cable television and telecommunication operators, wireless ISPs and enterprise. Our solutions enable utilities to operate secure wireless networks for communications and SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) of their remote assets. Cable television and telecommunication operators, wireless ISPs and enterprise use our DOCSIS-based solutions to deliver telephony (T1/E1), high-speed data, and VOIP to business and residential subscribers. Our 3 GHz Spectrum Overlay solutions are designed to expand cable operators' typical HFC (hybrid-fiber coax) network capacity in the "last mile" by up to 2x in the downstream and up to 10x in the upstream, addressing bandwidth demand for T1 and other advanced services. For more information, please visit www.vyyo.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

Statements made in this press release relating to the future, including those related to the opportunities created for our customers given our ability to provide T1 services and to dramatically increase upstream and downstream bandwidth, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our business and results of operations to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among others: whether we will be able to move from development stage to deployment and establish commercial relationships with cable system operators; whether the cable industry will be willing and able to substantially increase the available bandwidth on their networks and do so using our alternative technology solution; the current limited visibility available in the telecommunications and broadband access equipment markets; the competitive pricing environment and slower than expected development of broadband wireless opportunities; the willingness and ability of operators to adopt our new technology and apply it in a manner that meets customer demands; whether cable system operators will successfully test and then deploy Xtend solutions to provide cellular backhaul and other services; Xtend's ability to produce and distribute its broadband products in the quantities, and with the quality control, desired by the market; and other risks set forth in Vyyo's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004, Vyyo's quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and other reports filed by Vyyo with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. Vyyo assumes no duty to update these statements.

NOTE: All trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

DOCSIS is a trademark of Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.

Source: Xtend Networks

CONTACT: Paul Schneider of Paul Schneider Public Relations, Inc.,
+1-215-702-9784, or mobile, +1-215-817-4384, or pspr@att.net, for Xtend
Networks; or investors, Walt Ungerer, VP, Corporate Communications of Vyyo
Inc., +1-678-488-0468, or ir@vyyo.com

Web site: http://www.vyyo.com/

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