ADC Continues Leadership in Multi-vendor, Multi-technology Service Assurance With the Launch of Metrica Performance Manager.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 16, 2002

ADC (Nasdaq:ADCT; www.adc.com) announced today the introduction of Metrica(R) Performance Manager, a real-time and historical performance-management solution for telecommunications and data networks. Metrica Performance Manager offers service providers advanced, easy-to-use tools along with the scalability and domain expertise needed to effectively manage network quality and usage. With Metrica Performance Manager, operators can share performance data across their entire organization, improve network quality, reduce operational costs and maximize the return on infrastructure investment through better network optimization and planning.

Metrica Performance Manager is ADC's next-generation performance-management software solution, which builds on the established success of ADC's Metrica/NPR portfolio. Metrica/NPR has been successfully deployed by more than 180 operators worldwide across a wide range of network technologies, including GSM, General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), wireline voice, optical, ATM/frame relay and IP. Metrica solutions are used in more than 70 percent of the world's digital mobile networks.

"Metrica Performance Manager delivers the best solution for managing today's and tomorrow's networks," said David Heaps, senior vice president of ADC's Software Systems Business Unit. "We have built on our extensive experience with Metrica/NPR, and have added significant functionality on an open, scalable, rules-based framework. Operators can now manage their existing networks even more efficiently, and can deploy a future-proof solution for network growth and rapid technology evolution."

Metrica Performance Manager supports data collection from more than 100 network element gateways, covering most major technologies and vendors. It helps operators improve performance by delivering timely, relevant data through real-time reporting and drill-down capabilities. As a result, Metrica Performance Manager delivers lower cost of ownership by simplifying the management of complex multi-technology networks.

"Increasingly, performance management should be a key part of any operator's strategy to maximize return on network investment and retain customers," said Sanjay Mewada, director of the Telecom Software Strategies unit at Yankee Group, a technology industry research firm. "Metrica Performance Manager makes performance data available not only to network operations but to other user groups including management, marketing, product management and service operations. By getting the right data to the right people, performance management becomes a business-wide process."

Metrica Performance Manager is built on the modular and open Metrica Service Assurance Framework, which implements a distributed, object-oriented, J2EE-based architecture. It provides 100 percent Web-based user interfaces, from end-user report generation to detailed system administration and configuration, and offers open interfaces to other operations support systems (OSS) including Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and Extensible Markup Language (XML). The Metrica Service Assurance Framework is metadata driven, ensuring that the system capabilities can be customized and extended without modification of system code.

In addition to Metrica Performance Manager, ADC also offers Metrica Service Manager, a Service Quality Management (SQM) solution that manages end-to-end service quality in real-time and provides historical analysis against customer-focused quality objectives for both existing and emergent services. Both solutions are implemented on the Metrica Service Assurance Framework, creating a seamless bridge between overall service quality and detailed network performance. More information on ADC's OSS solutions can be found on the Web at www.adc.com/oss.

About ADC

ADC is The Broadband Company(TM). ADC tailors high-quality, custom solutions of network equipment, software and systems integration services that enable communications service providers to deliver high-speed Internet, data, video and voice services to consumers and businesses worldwide. ADC (Nasdaq:ADCT) has sales into nearly 100 countries and is included in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index and the Nasdaq 100 Index. Learn more about ADC Telecommunications, Inc. at www.adc.com.