ADC Readies Salt Lake City with Vital Broadband Technologies.

Business Editors & Technology Writers

Olympic Winter Games 2002

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2002

Wireless Coverage at Rice-Eccles Stadium;

Network and Broadcast Equipment, Serve Broadband Needs

of Event-Goers in Salt Lake City

ADC (Nasdaq:ADCT; www.adc.com), a leading global supplier of fiber optics, network equipment, software and integration services for broadband, multiservice networks, has assisted in making broadband services available in Salt Lake City. The broadcast, wireless and telecommunications equipment installed at locations in the city and surrounding area will serve the area's residents, as well as teams from around the world, officials, and spectators who will attend the games February 8 - 24.

"ADC has assisted several telecommunications service providers and vendors in the planning, preparation and installation of our broadband equipment," said Rick Roscitt, ADC's chairman and CEO. "It's a great feeling to know that ADC's products and services are playing a role in bringing this international event to the world."

ADC products and services installed in Salt Lake City and surrounding venues include:

-- Digivance(TM) Long-Range Coverage Solution installed in Rice-Eccles Stadium.
To serve the thousands of cell phones it contributed to athletes and to
officials for public safety, a major wireless service provider asked ADC to use
Digivance LRCS to extend wireless capacity and coverage throughout this
stadium, which will host the opening and closing ceremonies. The all-digital RF
distribution system provides the carrier with maximum wireless coverage and
cost-effectively distributes capacity throughout the stadium.

-- ADC's broadcast products are well known in the industry for their
high-performance, durability, and quality. At this year's international
sporting event, camera locations from all venues will be connected using ADC's
patented ProAx(TM) triaxial camera connectors. ProAx connectors provide the key
interconnect between the camera/triax cable, and the camera control units.
Connectors are used at each camera location, and at 1,000-foot (300-meter)
increment sections of triax cable. Numerous cables strung in preparation for
the event carry the camera feeds from tops of mountains to the bottom and then
to one of many remote electronic news gathering/electronic field production
(ENG/EFP) trucks parked on site.

ADC's ProAx connectors feature a patented industry-exclusive

field repair capability enabling camera technicians to replace

components damaged by extreme conditions that may be present

at the various venues in a fraction of the time normally

required to reterminate the entire cable assembly. This

reduces downtime and loss of critical event video.

-- Hundreds of ADC manufactured audio, video and data patchbays

will provide key connectivity within the numerous ENG/EFP

broadcast vehicles that process and feed the live events to

various broadcasters who transmit video around the world.

ADC's broadcast group assisted International Sports

Broadcasting, LLC with technical support including training

and inspection, plus terminating additional camera connectors,

as well as completing a variety of other installation tasks in

the days leading up to February 8.

-- ADC's broadcast patching is being used to assist in the

high-definition broadcast of certain sporting events

co-produced by NBC and HDNet, the all-high definition network

on DIRECTV channel 199. HDNet's mobile production trucks in

Salt Lake City will broadcast selected events in high

definition television (HDTV). HDNet is a leader in high

definition broadcasting, and produces and televises more hours

of HDTV programming each week than any other network.

-- NHK, the Japanese Nationwide Public Broadcaster, selected a

number of high-resolution, digital audio products from the ADC

Broadcast Group installed in new mobile vehicles built in

Japan for use in Salt Lake City. All Japanese broadcast

coverage from the site will be provided by NHK, and the ADC

audio equipment will be used in the conversion and processing

of program audio feeds. With a worldwide reputation for high

technical standards, NHK provides an advanced digital

television service with multi-channel audio throughout Japan.

-- ADC's Systems Integration team has played an instrumental role

at the international event, installing a video network switch

to serve a large telecommunications service provider. This

network switch is designed to handle up to 512 separate video

routes with independent or multicasting capabilities. It will

be used by television networks worldwide, as well as state and

federal government agencies for security services. Following

the games, the network will be used by state transportation

officials to provide feeds to local television stations for

broadcast to Salt Lake City residents. Systems Integration

activities over the past year also have included grooming the

service provider's infrastructure to accommodate increased

traffic, channel bank installations, and installing equipment

to ease congestion at main distribution frames.

-- Additional equipment installed in recent months to help expand

the network capacity of a major telecommunications service

provider in order to handle anticipated capacity includes

ADC's high-performance digital signal cross-connect (DSX)

products; FiberGuide(R) Fiber Management System designed to

protect and route fiber optic patch cords, multi-fiber cable

assemblies and intrafacility fiber cable (IFC); Next

Generation Frame (NGF) products that provide higher density

while improving fiber cable management; and high-capacity

delivery using ADC's Soneplex(R) Broadband systems designed

for T1-based service delivery. This equipment is installed for

use at nearly every central office, controlled environment

vault, hut, or cabinet in the area surrounding the various

venues.

"We feel ADC consistently serves as the gold standard in broadband technology, reliability and service," said Roscitt. "It's fitting that we play a key role in this year's event in Salt Lake City."

More than 1.4 million tickets have been sold to spectators to attend the games in Salt Lake City and approximately 2,300 athletes from 80 countries will compete in the events. An estimated worldwide television audience of 3.5 billion watched the opening ceremonies.

About ADC

ADC is The Broadband Company(TM). ADC tailors high-quality, custom solutions of network equipment, fiber optics, 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 operations in 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.