Vyyo Named Platinum Vendor by National Cable Television Cooperative

Vyyo Named Platinum Vendor by National Cable Television Cooperative

ATLANTA, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vyyo Inc. (NASDAQ:VYYO), a global supplier of broadband access equipment for cable and private wireless broadband network solutions, announced today that it has been named a Platinum Vendor by the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC).

As a Platinum Vendor, Vyyo is a preferred vendor for its T1 over Coax, T1 over Wireless and spectrum overlay solutions to the more than 1,100 NCTC member cable system operators. Vyyo will be demonstrating the solutions at the NCTC Winter Educational Conference Jan. 30-31 in Albuquerque, NM. The NCTC is a programming and hardware buying cooperative that represents operators serving 14.3 million subscribers in the United States. In the aggregate, that group represents the world's second largest base of cable television subscribers.

"Part of my satisfaction of working with the NCTC over the past 20 years has been the ability to help create solutions that work for member operators," said Scott Grim, director of business development for Vyyo. "I'm pleased that the organization has recognized the value of Vyyo's solutions, and look forward to working with members as they implement our spectrum overlay and T1 solutions."

"With multiple commercial purchase orders already received and an expanding list of trials with NCTC members, we are pleased to formalize this partnership with the NCTC to better serve this expanding customer base," said Avner Kol, chief operating officer of Vyyo. "Using our spectrum overlay product and our wired and wireless T1 solutions, NCTC members can deliver bandwidth-intensive advanced services such as HD on Demand and Very-High Speed Data, as well as symmetrical, voicegrade T1 commercial and cellular backhaul links."

"Cable system operators are recognizing the value of delivering an increasing number of advanced revenue-generating services," said Mark Bishop, senior vice president, hardware for NCTC. "Vyyo's spectrum overlay technology is designed to allow our members to create the bandwidth necessary for the services their subscribers desire, rather than having service offerings dictated by available bandwidth."

"A potential area of substantial growth for our membership is in delivering symmetrical T1 services to commercial customers who already are passed by existing plant," said Alan Tschirner, vice president, hardware for NCTC. "The telecom-quality capabilities of Vyyo's T1 over coax solution provide the high quality and high reliability that will attract and retain business customers, and will allow us to target the market opportunity for backhaul of cellular traffic."

"The ability to cost-effectively target new commercial customers has always been a challenge for our industry," said Ed Heuck, vice president of technology for Hargray Communications. "Using Vyyo's T1 solutions, we can leverage our existing investment in HFC plant to reach out to new market sectors."

Vyyo's spectrum overlay solution is designed to expand the usable downstream bandwidth by up to two times and increase up to tenfold the upstream bandwidth of typical hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) network architectures. Vyyo's carrier class T1 technology combines the company's XMTS(TM) family of products, headend modular systems servicing up to 56 T1 links, and the company's V3xx family of T1 modems to provide a market leading low-jitter, low-latency solution that utilizes existing infrastructure and Vyyo's T1 Network Management System. Vyyo's T1 over coax 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).

About NCTC, Inc.

NCTC (National Cable Television Cooperative, Inc.) is a programming and hardware buying cooperative. NCTC represents more than 1,100 independent cable operators, their 6,500 individual systems and more than 14.3 million subscribers nationwide. NCTC is based in Lenexa, KS. By working together to purchase programming, hardware and services, cooperative members strive to keep their businesses competitive and increase value to the subscribers they serve. www.cabletvcoop.org

About Vyyo Inc.

Vyyo provides cable and wireless broadband access solutions. Our products are designed for use by utilities, cable television and telecommunication operators, wireless internet service providers (ISPs) and enterprise. Our wireless broadband solutions enable utilities and other customers to operate private wireless networks for communications to their remote assets and customers. Typical applications include high-speed internet services, SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition), voice over internet protocol (VoIP) and telephony (T1/E1) all based on our modified Data Over Cable System Interface Specification (DOCSIS(R)) technology. Our Xtend Networks family of products include cable system spectrum overlay solutions 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.

About Hargray Communications

Founded in 1949, Hargray is an independent operating company that provides voice, video, data, wireless, high-speed Internet and directory publishing services to the residents and businesses of southeastern SC and GA. Hargray serves cities within a 100-mile radius of Hilton Head, SC, including Hilton Head Island, Beaufort, Bluffton, Savannah, Statesboro and others. The company is the country's 22nd largest independent operating company. Hargray is headquartered in Hilton Head, SC. Additional information can be found at www.hargray.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 spectrum overlay and wired and wireless T1 solutions and our ability 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 we will be able to successfully produce our wireless systems and whether such systems will be adopted and deployed by utilities and other customers; the current limited visibility available in the telecommunications and broadband access equipment markets; the willingness and ability of operators to adopt our new technology and apply it in a manner that meets customer demands; our ability to produce and distribute our broadband wireless and spectrum overlay solutions in the quantities, and with the quality control, desired by the market; and other risks set forth in our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004, our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and other reports filed by us with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. We assume 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: Vyyo Inc.

CONTACT: investors, Walt Ungerer, VP, Corporate Communications of Vyyo
Inc., +1-678-488-0468, or ir@vyyo.com; or media, Paul Schneider of Paul
Schneider Public Relations, Inc., +1-215-702-9784, or mobile, +1-215-817-4384,
or pspr@att.net; or Dan Mulvenon, VP, Public Relations of NCTC,
+1-913-599-5900, ext. 1509, or dmulvenon@cabletvcoop.org, both for Vyyo Inc.

Web site: http://www.cabletvcoop.org/

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

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