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Network Equipment Technologies ("NET") (NYSE: NWK) announced today that it was recognized by Microsoft� with a 2009 Microsoft Dynamics Customer Excellence Award for excellence in Manufacturing and was honored by Microsoft executives at an awards luncheon on Tuesday, March 10, at Convergence 2009 in New Orleans, the premier Microsoft Dynamics user conference.

The 2009 Customer Excellence Awards, which are presented in 11 categories, recognize and celebrate Microsoft Dynamics customers that have achieved notable accomplishments using their Microsoft Dynamics solutions.

NET was recognized for its strong commitment to manufacturing and innovation. Working with Microsoft Dynamics' certified partner, Fullscope, Inc. of San Jose, CA, NET delivered solutions that reduced costs, simplified business processes, improved financial reporting and government contract compliance, and facilitated enterprise-wide system integration.

Established in 1997, the Customer Excellence Awards are awarded each year at the Convergence user conferences in the US and Europe. Microsoft Dynamics customers, partners and team members submit nominations. Judging teams for each of the 10 categories rated nominees on creativity, vision, and business benefits. Proposed winners for each category were then presented and reviewed by a panel of Microsoft executive judges for final approval. As part of that final review, winning customers were chosen including the Overall Excellence Award winning customer.

Microsoft Dynamics is a line of financial, customer relationship and supply chain management solutions that help businesses work more effectively.

About Network Equipment Technologies, Inc.

Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. (NET) provides network and VoIP solutions to enterprises and government agencies that seek to reduce the cost to deploy next generation unified and secure communications applications. For a quarter of a century, NET has delivered solutions for multi-service networks requiring high degrees of versatility, security and performance. Today, the company's broad family of products enables interoperability and integration with existing networks for migration to secure IP-based communications. Broadening NET's voice solutions, Quintum Technologies, now a part of NET, is a VoIP innovator whose applications bring the reliability and clarity of public telephone networks to Internet telephony and unified communications. NET is headquartered in Fremont, CA and has 14 offices worldwide including the US, the UK, France, the Middle East, China, Japan, Australia, and Latin America. The company sells its solutions through a direct sales force and an international network of resellers and distributors. For more information, visit www.net.com.

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