ADVISORY/Media Alert - Massachusetts Telecommunications Council Visual for Thursday, May 15.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for Thursday (May 15)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Massachusetts Telecommunications Council

WHO
The Massachusetts Telecommunications Council

WHAT
The Massachusetts Telecommunications Council will showcase 40
telecommunications companies at the Tenth Annual MTC Investors
Conference. This event is one of the region's key technology events
and provides a unique forum for investors, analysts, industry
decision-makers and the media to get current information about a
select group of the Commonwealth's top telecommunications companies.
Presentations are made throughout the day by CEOs and CFOs from early
stage and mid- to late-stage private companies as well as public
companies.

- Breakfast Panel - New Directions for Growth:
   What Are Enterprise & Telecom Companies Buying?
MATTHEW FLANIGAN, President, Telecommunications Industry Association
JAMES P. PARMELEE, Managing Director, Credit Suisse First Boston
PETER QUINN, CIO, State of MA
ROBERT J.RICH, Executive Vice President, the Yankee Group

- Luncheon Keynote
DAVID FELLOWS, CTO, Comcast

WHERE
Westin Copley Place, Boston, Massachusetts
10 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02116
617-262-9600

WHEN
Thursday, May 15, 2003

Agenda
7:30 - 8:00 AM  --- Registration
8:00 - 9:15 AM  --- Breakfast Panel - Telecommunications Industry
                     - New Directions for Growth
9:30 AM - noon  --- Company Presentations
12:00 - 1:45 PM --- Lunch & Keynote Address - David Fellows, CTO,
                     Comcast
1:50 - 5:30 PM  --- Company Presentations
5:30 - 7:00 PM  --- Cocktail Reception

Participating Companies
Early Stage, Broadbus Technologies, Chantry Networks, Common Voices,
DataPower Technology, EM4, Photonics, Legra Systems, Inc., LNL
Technologies, M-Qube, SensiCast Systems, Seranoa Networks, Inc.,
Tatara Systems, Mid / Late Stage, Amperion, Arbor Networks Cedar Point
Communications, Continuum, Photonics, Ellacoya Networks, GeoTrust,
Granite Systems, Guardent, Narad Networks, Nauticus Networks, Netezza
Corporation, ProQuent Systems, SercoNet, Inc., SilverBack
Technologies, SnowShore Networks, Stargus, Inc., TelicaPublic, Avici
Systems, Boston Communications Group, Inc., Brooktrout, Inc.,
Enterasys Networks, Ibasis, Kopin Corporation, NetScout Systems, NMS
Communications, Sonus Networks