NORWALK, CT  November 11, 2004 - Ventus Networks has signed contracts with the Texas-based Johnson Space Center Federal Credit Union and San Antonio City Employees Credit Union to provide a new cellular transport service designed for ATM's.  The arrangement includes Ventus wireless service utilizing VFN cellular routers and VNet Constant-Connect operating software.

"We are pleased to provide our Secured Cellular Transaction Routing service to both of these established credit unions.  Johnson Space Center and San Antonio City Employees Federal Credit Unions are the newest additions to out list of other distinguished financial institutions that have already entrusted us to deliver their sensitive financial data traffic", said Ron Riva, Vice President of Ventus Networks.

Ventus Networks high-speed cellular transport solution operates in conjunction with TCP/IP and legacy protocols, enabling any remote device to communicate through a single network scheme.  Ventus cellular transport operates over a private cellular (800 MHz) and PCS (1900 MHz) infrastructure and is designed for businesses that have portfolio of deployed devices facilitating financial transactions.

Ventus uses its proprietary VFN wireless series routers and VNet Constant-Connect software enabling operation in all GSM and CDMA2000 environments.  The cellular transport service operates as part of a virtual private network protected by enhanced network encryption and key exchange security and firewalls that Ventus includes as part of the service offering.  Ventus Cellular transport service can be utilized on any ATM/Point of sale terminal or transactional kiosk.

"We are most excited about the ability this will give us to deploy new machines.  No longer will we have to wait for the local phone company to run and test a data circuit and then get the building owner to extend the d-mark for us to the ATM location (usually 2 to 3 week process if all goes well).  With the Ventus solution all you need is a power connection at the ATM location", said Steve Branstetter, Executive Vice President of Johnson Space Center Credit Union.

Monitored at Ventus' Operations Center, the network allows for seamless transaction routing between device and host processor.  Ventus Networks will provide the cellular transport, VFN Routers and ongoing network monitoring and support.

"The cost-savings alone made moving to a wireless environment for our ATMs is a very easy decision for CECU.  The Ventus Networks cellular routers combined with its transaction routing network offers us a perfect end-to-end solution, "said Bill Bohlke, CECU Vice President of MIS division.