Agility Attracts Veteran Sales Executive for Top Management Post.

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2000

Pioneer of Next-Generation Optical Networking Components Expands

Management Team with Wayne Gartin as New Vice President of Sales

Agility Communications(TM), Inc., a pioneer of next-generation optical networking components, today announced it has appointed Wayne Gartin to the position of vice president of sales.

Gartin, a sales executive with more than 25 years of experience, has worked at some of the largest companies in the semiconductor industry, including Infineon Technologies, Lucent, Intel Corp., Adaptec, and EnThink. Formerly from Infineon Technologies, Gartin will lead Agility's sales efforts and acquisition of customers. Agility Communications, Inc., is pioneering breakthrough optical networking infrastructure solutions that dramatically reduce the costs and complexity of supporting agile networks. Developed for Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexed (DWDM) networks, Agility's first products, high-power, widely tunable lasers, will help communications providers to increase network capacity, maximize existing network resources, streamline the planning process for network growth, and dynamically provision bandwidth.

"Wayne brings an aggressive, single-minded focus on achieving tremendous sales results to his new position at Agility," said Ron Nelson, president and CEO of Agility. "With his expertise and proven sales success working for both startup and huge companies in the global semiconductor industry, he will play a vital role in shaping, managing, and preparing the Agility sales team to experience skyrocketing growth."

This news follows Agility's recent announcement in October of its second round of funding in which it received $70 million. With this investment, Agility is expanding its wafer fabrication and packaging capabilities in Santa Barbara, Calif. and Allentown, Penn., to accelerate a high-volume, automated assembly process to meet burgeoning customer demand for the Agility lasers.

Before joining Agility, Gartin was senior director, Internet Acceleration Products, at Infineon Technologies (formerly Siemens Microelectronics), where he was responsible for identifying emerging market opportunities for Internet storage and Web acceleration integrated circuits. He revamped Infineon's Network and Computer Storage Division's strategic positioning, recruited and hired the initial sales and marketing teams, and developed the target account strategy for penetrating tier-one communication, internet equipment, and network storage companies.

Prior to Infineon Technologies, Gartin was vice president, worldwide sales for startup company, EnThink, Inc. He created EnThink's worldwide sales team and developed the operational sales strategy, resulting in major design wins in Japan and the United States with global companies such as Toshiba, Oki, Matsushita, and VLSI. Under his leadership, EnThink achieved $1 million in sales for the first fiscal year and $3 million in the second year, prior to being acquired by Wipro Ltd.

As director, OEM Sales at Lucent Technologies, Gartin led the AT&T Microelectronics Western sales team in 1994 with revenues of $350 million per year. After AT&T divested Lucent, Gartin renovated and created a sales team of global account executives, territory managers, and manufacturers' representative firms, growing revenue from $350 million to more than $1 billion in less than four years. Some of Gartin's key global accounts included: 3Com, Cisco, Seagate, Quantum, Compaq, HP, Sun, Toshiba, Apple, Xircom, Maxtor, IBM, Intel, and Nortel.

Prior to joining Lucent, Gartin was Western Region sales manager at Adaptec when it was a pre-IPO company with $12 million in annual sales. He left Adaptec six years later as National Sales manager after the company went public and was profitable with sales of more than $120 million. Some of his key sales successes were with HP, Apple, IBM, Zenith, Seagate, and Sun Microsystems.

Gartin started his career in 1975 at Intel Corp. working in direct sales as a sales engineer responsible for emerging accounts in Silicon Valley. During his 10-year tenure at Intel, Gartin was promoted several times and became a district manager leading strategic accounts. His sales district was Intel's top performer for two consecutive years. Gartin holds a bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science and a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Utah.

About Agility Communications, Inc.

Agility Communications, Inc., is pioneering breakthrough optical networking infrastructure solutions that dramatically reduce the costs and complexity of supporting agile networks. Developed for Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexed (DWDM) networks, Agility's first products, high-power, widely tunable lasers, will help communications providers to increase network capacity, maximize existing network resources, streamline the planning process for network growth, and dynamically provision bandwidth. Industry analysts from RHK expect the global optical networking industry to top $41 billion by 2003. Founded by a team of optical networking veterans in Oct. 1998, Agility is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California and has manufacturing facilities in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Agility investors include Amerindo Investment Advisors, Berkeley International Capital Ltd., Comdisco Ventures, Dell Ventures, Hammer Capital Management, Inc., Milton Chang, Meritech Capital Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Mustang Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners, and Worldview Technology Partners. For more information about Agility solutions visit, http:www.agilitycom.com, send email to [e-mail] or call 805/690-1700.

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