ADC's Singl.eView Convergent Billing Platform Selected by Telephony Application Service Provider TalkingNets.

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ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 2001

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Enables the First Telephony ASP to Extend New Services

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ADC (Nasdaq:ADCT; www.adc.com), a leading global supplier of fiber optics, network equipment, software and integration services for broadband, multiservice networks, today announced that telephony application service provider (ASP) TalkingNets is using the ADC Singl.eView(TM) convergent billing platform. The ADC platform is designed to help data communications companies add voice services without investing in new staff or equipment. Singl.eView's flexibility and scalability is designed to help companies like TalkingNets enter new markets and launch new programs rapidly and efficiently.

TalkingNets is using Singl.eView to help the company and its channel partners to provide customized, co-branded or private-label bills for a variety of voice services to their business customers. Singl.eView's flexible architecture is designed to help TalkingNets and its channel partners easily configure their billing packages based on a variety of factors such as billing cycle time and type of service.

Singl.eView is designed to help TalkingNets provide its channel partners with three billing options:

-- TalkingNets can send the voice billing data to its channel partners, who can
then generate their own convergent bills for both voice and data;

-- channel partners can send the billing data to TalkingNets, which can then
generate the end customers' convergent bills;

-- or the channel partners can generate two separate bills for voice and data.

"As a telephony ASP, we need a billing system that is flexible enough to meet the changing market needs of our channel partners while helping us to enter new markets quickly," said Scott Henry, chief information officer of TalkingNets. "Singl.eView's flexibility enables our channel partners to provide customized packages of services and pricing structures to their business customers and respond quickly to a competitor's move or a market demand."

Singl.eView's flexible architecture also helps TalkingNets to change its service offerings rapidly and meet constantly evolving market demands, without expensive and time-consuming custom coding. Singl.eView's architecture is designed to be able to seamlessly integrates with TalkingNets' operations support system (OSS), streamlining service delivery and billing.

"TalkingNets is enabling innovative voice services delivery to the small- and medium-sized businesses that make up most of the companies in this country," said Larry Barker, president of ADC's Software Systems Division. "Singl.eView supports the constant innovation and customization needed to serve such a critical market."

As the nation's first telephony ASP, TalkingNets plans to offer its services through broadband service providers such as Internet service providers, in-building local exchange carriers (BLECs), data competitive local exchange carriers (data CLECs) and metropolitan area gigabit Ethernet (GigE) service providers as well as system integrators. By working with TalkingNets, these companies can provide enhanced voice services to their small and medium-sized business customers using TalkingNets' next-generation voice services network and their existing broadband pipes - without expending the capital needed to build out their own back-end telephony infrastructure.

TalkingNets first launched services in Denver last November. The company recently launched services in Washington, D.C. and plans to deploy in 25 additional U.S. cities.

Singl.eView is an integral part of Singularit.e(TM), ADC's suite of products, services, and enterprise application integration (EAI) connectors that allow communication service providers to build open, comprehensive OSSs to compete more effectively in the broadband era. Singularit.e automates key OSS processes by combining real-time advanced customer management, convergent billing, service fulfillment and service assurance technology with integration services from leading consulting companies.

About TalkingNets

TalkingNets (www.talkingnets.com), a telephony ASP, provides wholesale telephony solutions that allow broadband service providers and system integrators to offer next generation voice services to small and medium-sized businesses. Using server-based IP telecom architecture, TalkingNets enables its channel partners to sell basic and advanced voice services as well as a variety of enhanced telephony applications - applications that previously required end-users to purchase, maintain and manage their own on-premises hardware. By extending the computer hosting and server model into the telephony world, TalkingNets gives its channel partners the ability to offer voice services quickly, efficiently and effectively, without developing significant voice expertise or building out additional network components.

About ADC

ADC is The Broadband Company(TM). ADC's fiber optics, network equipment, software and integration services make broadband communications a reality worldwide by enabling communications service providers to deliver high-speed Internet, data, video and voice services to consumers and businesses. ADC (Nasdaq: ADCT) is a Fortune 500 company with sales into more than 130 countries. Learn more about ADC Telecommunications, Inc. at www.adc.com.

Billing World 2001 June 26-28, 2001 Booth No. 1709