ADVISORY/Agility Communications Vice President of Marketing, Arlon Martin, to Present at Information Gatekeepers' Photonics Briefings Conference.

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ADVISORY...for Wednesday (Dec. 5)

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Media are invited to hear Arlon Martin, vice president of marketing for Agility Communications(TM), Inc., discuss how the adoption of widely tunable lasers is enhancing the performance of optical networks in metropolitan areas at Information Gatekeeper, Inc.'s (IGI) Photonics Briefings conference. In line with the conference's theme titled, "Metro Optical Networks -- When Will It Take Off?," Martin will highlight Agility's continued success as the award-winning leader in providing widely tunable lasers for metro, switching, and long-haul markets. Martin, one of nine invited speakers, is scheduled to present on Wed., Dec. 5, 2001 from 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the Burlington Marriott in Burlington, Mass. Other speakers include: Dr. Paul Polishuk, president and CEO, IGI Consulting; Glenn Waldorf, UBS Warburg; Betsy Broihier, Progress Telecom; Andy Woodfin, Corning Inc.; Peeya Iwagoshi, LuxPath Networks; Yaki Luzon, Packet Light Networks ltd.; Andrew Vernon, Movaz Networks.; Eric Schmidt, Centerpoint Broadband Technologies Inc.; and Emanuel Nacham, Lightscape Networks. Sponsored by IGI, the executive Photonics Briefings are designed to meet the needs of executives who must obtain an in-depth perspective of a particular slice of the optical networking marketplace. The one-day briefings provide analyses of the market, technology, and applications. Speakers at the briefings are experts in the specific topic and include consultants, technologists, manufacturers, suppliers, and carriers.

When and Where

Media are invited to hear Arlon Martin discuss how the adoption of widely tunable lasers is enhancing the performance of optical networks in metropolitan areas at IGI's Photonics Briefings conference on Wed., Dec., 5, 2001 from 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the Burlington Marriott in Burlington, Mass. For more information about the conference visit: http://www.photonicsbriefings.com/coming.html. For more information about Agility Communications, Inc. visit: http://www.agility.com.

Biography for Arlon Martin, Vice President of Marketing

Arlon Martin brings wide-ranging successes in marketing innovative optoelectronics products in both domestic and international marketplaces to his role of vice president of marketing at Agility.

Most recently, Martin was general manager and marketing director for the Optoelectronics Division of Lucent Technologies. Martin served in several significant leadership positions at Lucent including director of marketing telecom and submarine applications, and group manager, product marketing, optoelectronic components and digital signal processors and microprocessors. His efforts were rewarded with high revenue and market share growth in the optoelectronics and semiconductor divisions. Martin's international experience includes six years in Tokyo as the senior manager of marketing and application engineering for Lucent's Microelectronics Division. While in Japan, Martin served as AT&T's representative on the executive committee and the Emerging Applications Committee of the Semiconductor Industry Association - Japan (SIA-J). During this time, AT&T was ranked the second fastest-growing semiconductor company in the Asia Pacific.

Martin began his career at Bell Laboratories as a computer programmer developing computer-aided design tools. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale and a master's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan.

About Agility Communications, Inc.

Agility Communications, Inc., the leader in pioneering widely tunable lasers for metro, switching, and long-haul markets, is providing the lowest total cost of ownership and dramatically reducing the costs and complexity of supporting agile networks. The company has been named one of Light Reading's Top 10 Privately Held Companies, has won the Technologic Partners' Optix 2001 Investor's Choice award, and was listed in UPSIDE Magazine's "Hot 100" private companies for 2001. Agility has also been highlighted in several "Hot Companies to Watch" lists including, BusinessWeek and Lightwave Magazine.

Founded by a team of optical networking and semiconductor veterans in Oct. 1998, Agility is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California and has manufacturing facilities in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Agility investors include: Alliance, Amerindo Investment Advisors, CIENA Corp., Comdisco Ventures, Dell Ventures, GM Investment Management Corp., Global Strategic, Granite Global Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Mustang Ventures, Tellabs, U.S. Venture Partners, and Worldview Technology Partners. For more information about Agility solutions visit www.agility.com, send email to [e-mail] or call 805/690-1700.

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