Sandvine Receives $4 Million Order for Market-Leading 100 GE PTS 32000 Platform

Sandvine continues to deliver value to major customer for over 10 years

WATERLOO, ON, Nov. 20, 2015 /CNW/ - Sandvine, (TSX:SVC) a leading provider of intelligent broadband network solutions for fixed and mobile operators, today announced that it has received an expansion order for more than $4 million. The order expands the implementation of Sandvine's solutions for a major fixed line Communications Service Provider in North America that has been a customer since 2005. The purchase relates to Sandvine's Policy Traffic Switch (PTS) 32000 hardware. Approximately $1 million of the order value is expected to be recognized as revenue in the company's fourth quarter, with the remainder to be recognized in FY 2016.

In its 2RU form factor, the PTS 32000 delivers PCEF/TDF functionality at the highest scale, with the best performance density and power efficiency of any 100GE network policy control device.  Additionally, the PTS 32000's support for 100GE, 40GE, and 10GE interfaces allows operators to embed the Sandvine Policy Engine anywhere in their network as they transition to 100GE.

"This is now the fourth generation of our Policy Traffic Switch that the customer has deployed," said Tom Donnelly, Sandvine's COO, Sales and Global Services. "Sandvine prides itself on its history of innovation. Only by continuing to deliver industry-leading products like the PTS 32000 can we deliver value for a customer of this quality for over 10 years."

The customer is using Sandvine's products to provide business intelligence for capacity planning, customer experience measurement, and other strategic initiatives.

ABOUT SANDVINE
Sandvine's network policy control solutions add intelligence to fixed, mobile and converged communications service provider networks to enable services that can increase revenue and reduce network costs. Powered by Sandvine's Policy Engine and SandScript policy language, Sandvine's networking equipment performs end-to-end policy control functions including traffic classification, and policy decision and enforcement across the data, control and business planes.  Sandvine's products provide actionable business insight, the ability to deploy new subscriber services and tools to optimize traffic while enhancing subscriber Internet quality of experience.

Sandvine's network policy control solutions are deployed in more than 250 networks in over 90 countries, serving hundreds of millions of data subscribers worldwide, www.sandvine.com.

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INVESTOR CONTACT: Rick Wadsworth, Sandvine, [phone] ext. 3503, [email protected]; MEDIA CONTACT: Dan Deeth, Sandvine, [phone], [email protected]