Press Release

July 8, 2005

“BiPAC 7402 Blew Away The ADSL2+ Competition”
Billion’s BiPAC 7402 received “Editor’s Choice Award” from the APC magazine in Australia

Taipei, Taiwan - Billion Electric Co. Ltd. ( Taiex: # 3027 ) today announces BiPAC 7402 (ADSL2+ VPN Firewall Router) is awarded “Editor’s Choice” by Australian Personal Computer (APC) magazine, the leading IT publication in Australia, in July issue.

The APC magazine reviewed Australia’s first comparison test of ADSL2+ modems in July issue . Billion’s BiPAC 7402 performs very great in transfer speed at a distance of “1km and 2.5km” as well as “download time”. According to APC’s review in July issue, “ BiPAC 7402 averaged 2,020.2KB/s in the 1km test and took 5 minutes and 22 seconds for the downloaded test file. In the 2.5km test, it averaged 1,363.8KB/s and downloaded the 635MB test file in just under 8 minutes”. Commented by the APC magazine, “When it came to ADSL2+, t he BiPAC 7402 blew away the competition”. “The overall ADSL2+ performance is astounding for its excellent ADSL2+ throughput and impressive range of extras”. Billion BiPAC 7402 is grant 4.5 stars of total 5 stars verdict in the performance test . This positive result has proven BiPAC 7402 a value-added and the best ADSL2+ modem.

Billion’s BiPAC 7402 is perfectly designed for small business users to enjoy high-speed ADSL services. The ADSL2+ VPN router supports Virtual Private Network (VPN) protocols for data encryption, Dynamic Domain Name System (DDNS), Firewall Security like Denial of Service (DoS) attacks blocking and Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI). The router also provides Quality of Service (QoS) option for traffic prioritization and bandwidth management. With powerful 3DES accelerator, BiPAC 7402 supports up to 16 IPSec VPN Tunnels and makes VPN throughput up to 3.5Mbps. Office users can build up secured VPN tunnels while enjoying high-speed Internet access.

“It’s my honor to have BiPAC 7402 awarded “Editor’s Choice” by the APC magazine in Australia. We wish to provide our router users with great performance and a wide range of advanced features for the Internet access. I'm confident of our product strategy “Powering Communications with Security” being implemented well through the ADSL2+ product line. We will continue to enhance ADSL2+ products by all means to offer faster speed Internet access to users and secure their multiple PCs with good performance,” said Mr. Tim Chen, CEO of Billion.

About Billion

Billion Electric Co. Ltd. (Taiex: 3027), based in Taiwan, was founded in 1973. It is one of the leading providers of network equipment and power supply products in the Asia Pacific rim. Since its Communication Division was established in 1992, Billion has reinforced its investment in developing next generation network equipment and Internet access devices for home users, telecommuters, and SME users. Billion has been accorded a number of honors for its networking products and has acquired a considerable customer base across Europe, America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific markets. For more information, please visit www.billion.com.

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