Sandvine concludes supply arrangement for multinational operator group

Company receives $2.5 million in follow-on orders

WATERLOO, ON, July 9, 2012 /CNW/ - Sandvine, (TSX:SVC; AIM:SAND) a leading provider of intelligent broadband network solutions for fixed and mobile operators, today announced that it has concluded a new supply arrangement with Alcatel Lucent relating to sales of Sandvine's Network Policy Control solutions to a joint, multinational operator group customer. In connection with the agreement, Sandvine has received follow-on orders from five properties in the operator group worth approximately $2.5 million. The Company expects that a portion of the revenue relating to these orders will begin to be recognized in its third quarter.

"We are very pleased to finalize our supply arrangement with our partner and to see orders from this important customer begin to flow again. We have visibility into opportunities with certain properties within the global operator group, and expect additional business over coming quarters," said Dave Caputo, Sandvine's President and CEO.

Orders to date include demand for:

• Sandvine's PTS 24000 platform;
• Online charging to support the implementation of new service tiers;
• Network protection for a more secure subscriber experience;
• Traffic steering to ecosystem partner solutions, such as content caching for more efficient delivery of content to subscribers.

ABOUT SANDVINE
Sandvine's network policy control solutions focus on protecting and improving the quality of experience on the Internet. Our award-winning network policy control equipment and software helps fixed and wireless and mobile operators better understand network traffic, manage network congestion, create new services and revenues, mitigate traffic that is malicious or undesirable to subscribers, deliver QoS-prioritized multimedia services and increase subscriber satisfaction. With over 200 service provider customers in over 85 countries, serving hundreds of millions of broadband and mobile data subscribers, Sandvine is enhancing the Internet experience worldwide. For more information, please visit: www.sandvine.com.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
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