ADC Closes Record-Breaking Quarter for Singularit.e OSS Suite.

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MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 2000

Company Gains 22 New Billing, Customer Management,

and Service Assurance Customers Worldwide

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 it recently closed the most successful quarter in its history for the Singularit.e OSS Suite. In its fourth fiscal quarter, ending October 31, 2000, ADC signed 22 contracts for Singularit.e(TM), its suite of operational support system (OSS) products, including real-time convergent billing, customer management and service assurance applications for integrated communications providers (ICPs). The newly-signed contracts range in value from multimillion dollar agreements with established companies to sizable agreements with new entry service providers and have a total value in excess of $50 million.

"It's been an outstanding quarter for us," said Larry Barker, president of ADC's Software Systems Division. "In addition to winning many diverse new clients around the globe, we've established a framework for continuing to grow market share - we added new functionality, created new strategic alliances, and completed performance testing that sets us apart in the marketplace. Singularit.e's real-time convergent billing, customer management, and service assurance solutions are being established as leadership products in virtually every segment of the communications industry."

Twenty-two contracts were signed for convergent billing, integrated customer management or service assurance. Clients signed included Comcast, Comm South Companies, Bazillion, Inc., Pak Telecom Mobile Limited/Ufone, TalkingNets, Inc., Tenzing Communications, Inc., Virgin Mobile Australia, Madison River, Rivien Communications, RioData, and Arbinet-The Exchange, Telfort, Pangean and Global Broadband Inc.

"We teamed with ADC because they offer an integrated solution that delivers broad, flexible functionality that is both supportable and scalable," said Jamie Howard, CEO, Bazillion. "Our mission is to rapidly innovate and deploy personalized, advanced communication products and services, and that requires a solution that is well-defined and gets us to market quickly, while minimizing implementation and ongoing support requirements. Singl.eView(TM) has enabled us to avoid the overly complicated and expensive integration trap associated with multiple vendors, without compromising our OSS quality or requirements."

"We will be implementing very unique business and rating structures so a flexible OSS is critical to our success," said Alan Pellegrini, chief operating officer, Tenzing Communications, the leading provider of email and Internet services in aircraft. "The Singl.eView solution's ability to build, price, and bill for new services in real-time will help differentiate us from our competition."

ADC new clients will be using Singl.eView convergent billing and integrated customer management to support a full range of communications services, including Voice over DSL (Digital Subscriber Line), IP Telephony, ATM, frame relay, wireless voice and data, VPNs and Internet connectivity.

ADC also further strengthened its already world-leading service assurance solution for wireless networks with the launch of Metrica/Chartis(TM) that enables wireless operators to visualize the state of network performance geographically to help maximize network infrastructure and improve quality of service. Singularit.e suite of quality assurance products now support virtually all types of public carrier infrastructure, including GPRS and IP backbone operations.

ADC's accelerated acceptance in the marketplace also was evidenced by several new alliances with key systems integrators and consultancies, including TMNG, BusinessEdge Solutions, Inc., Inteliant, Etnoteam S.p.A., Steria GmbH, and Bardenheuer Software GmbH. The terms of the alliances call for ADC and its allies to jointly optimize and market their best-of-breed OSS components in ways that will allow telecommunications providers to increase customer satisfaction and improve productivity.

Contributing to ADC's fourth quarter business results was the announcement of performance tests that demonstrated Singl.eView's applicability to carriers of several different sizes. The tests, which simulated realistic carrier situations, clearly demonstrated Singl.eView's high capacity performance, near linear scalability and functional flexibility, making it a powerful solution for any size provider.

In ADC's continuing effort to understand and respond to its customers' real world needs, it introduced a set of IP and self-care capabilities for Singl.eView called Singl.eView Enhanced ICP. The new product enhancements allow service providers to use one platform to support data and switched voice services, provide advanced Web-based self-care capabilities and incorporate quality of service (QoS) metrics into the IP-based products they offer their customers.

"The record-breaking number of contracts in multiple segments of the industry is testimony to our vision striking a chord in the marketplace," said Barker. "Our goal for Singularit.e from the beginning has been to help all types of service providers support a full range of today's and tomorrow's communications services."

Singl.eView and its components, and the Metrica family of service assurance products are integral parts of Singularit.e, ADC's suite of products, services and enterprise application integration (EAI) connectors that help ICPs to build open operational support systems (OSSs) to compete more effectively in the broadband era. Singularit.e automates key OSS processes by combining real-time convergent billing, advanced customer management and service assurance technology with integration services from leading consulting companies.

About ADC

ADC is The Broadband Company. 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) has annual sales of over $3.2 billion and employs more than 22,000 people worldwide. ADC's stock is included in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index and the Nasdaq-100 Index. Learn more about ADC Telecommunications, Inc. at www.adc.com.

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Reform Act of 1995

Any forward-looking statements contained herein reflect management's current expectations or beliefs. ADC Telecommunications cautions readers that future actual results could differ materially from those in forward-looking statements depending on the outcome of certain factors, including the risks and uncertainties identified in Exhibit 99-a to ADC's Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 1999.