Ambient Corporation (OTCBB: ABTG) has Expanded Broadband over Power Line Deployment with DUKE ENERGY (NYSE: DUK)

Ambient Advances to Expanded Deployment
This Phase to Pass 6000 Homes in Charlotte, NC
September 26, 2006 08:30 AM Eastern Time

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ambient Corporation (OTCBB: ABTG), a leader in Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) solutions, today announced that it has entered into an Expanded Deployment Agreement with Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), one of the largest investor-owned utilities in the United States.


"The importance of the commercial deployment coupled with FCC certification – both significant milestones - is unmistakable for the industry,” said John J. Joyce, President and CEO of Ambient. “We are enthusiastic about the opportunity to proceed with this first phase of commercial deployment with a leading utility. As we have stated over these past few years, we have positioned ourselves as a leader in this burgeoning BPL industry.”

The deployment will include building connectivity to approximately 6,000 homes in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is part of an ongoing BPL pilot program at Duke. Ambient will provide an end-to-end solution for high-speed transmission and reception of data and voice via electric power lines for both broadband carrier and core utility applications and services.

“We believe that Duke’s cautious and rigorous approach to validating our BPL technology prior to this initial deployment further strengthens the credibility of the BPL industry,” continued Mr. Joyce.

In addition to utilizing Ambient’s industry-leading, FCC-certified X2 BPL Access Node (with up to three 200Mbit BPL interfaces), Ambient-designed next-generation overhead and underground couplers and BPL modems in the deployment, Ambient will provide the engineering and technical support needed to design, support and assist in the deployment and management of the network. The deployment will also include X2 nodes with integrated 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi support to provide wireless access.

Ambient will license its Network Management Software (NMS) to Duke for monitoring and control of the network.

For further information on Ambient’s FCC–certified, next-generation BPL Access Node, the X², please refer to our press releases of May 3rd and September 7th of this year, available on the Ambient website (www.ambientcorp.com) or contact Anna Croop at (617) 614-6739.
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Duke to widen Internet via power lines
Deal with small firm offers service to 6,000
CHRISTOPHER D. KIRKPATRICK
ckirkpatrick@charlotteobserver.com

Duke Energy Corp. and a tiny Boston technology company want to turn every power outlet in your home into a ready-made portal for broadband access to the Internet and beyond.

Ambient Corp., a 37-employee company near Boston, announced Duke as the first customer for its broadband power line technology. Up to 6,000 Duke Energy customers in southern Charlotte would be the recipients of the service.

Ambient, a $30 million company that trades as a penny stock, was the winner of a technology derby of sorts inside the power company.

After several years of trials, Ambient was chosen to expand Duke's pilot program that has used various technologies, said Ram Rao, chief technology officer for Ambient.

"Essentially, we utilize existing power lines ... to deliver communication signals," he said. "One of the advantages is every single (power) outlet in your house can be your Internet connection. So the whole house is ready-wired."

The technology employs a special box -- about the size of a pack of playing cards -- that plugs into power outlets. On the side facing out is a plug-in for a data line that delivers the broadband signal. Duke would contract with Internet service providers to complete the service.

"Basically, we were looking for the technology to expand it. We had been testing new technologies, and now we feel we have (it)," said Tom Shiel, Duke Energy spokesman. "We see this as an opportunity to do further explorations in this. We still have to do the testing to see if this works."

Ambient also provides boxes on poles throughout the power network that would help create a so-called smart grid. The communication network would allow it to monitor power levels and the health of transformers. The technology would act as a monitoring system that ideally would detect problems and send alarms to prevent power outages and power surges. Duke also would like to read meters remotely, using the Ambient technology.

"What this will allow us to do is monitor our distribution system from transformer to transformer. This has obvious benefits in power outages," Shiel said.



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