Alopa Networks Announces Strategic Relationship With ADC Telecommunications, Inc.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2000

ADC Wireless adds Subscriber Service Solutions from ALOPA

Alopa Networks, a Silicon Valley startup company specializing in broadband subscriber service solutions, today announced that it has formed a strategic relationship with the signing of a multi-year reselling agreement with ADC (NASDAQ:ADCT).

ADC, a public company headquartered in Minnesota, will include Alopa's Service Assurance and Delivery Solutions as an integral part of its wireless infrastructure equipment offerings for public and private wireless data networks. Furthermore ADC will provide direct access to their customers for Alopa's new service creation solutions.

"It is important for us to partner with a company that will give us an advantage in the wireless market by providing enabling technologies and excellent support," said Brian Anderson Senior Product Manager, ADC. "Alopa's focus on service creation, provisioning and assurance in the broadband access space is a good fit with ADC's mission to deliver high-speed, last mile solutions to telecom service providers worldwide."

"Leading telecommunications companies are looking for ways to provide solutions that deliver bandwidth on demand and have the capability of managing tiers of services while insuring QOS. Our technology enables ADC's broadband, point to multi-point offering to become the premier solution in achieving this in the wireless domain," said Peter Szalay, Vice-President of Business Development for Alopa. "This relationship helps to exposes our state-of-the-art service creation solutions to ADC's service provider customers."

"Wireless networks are an emerging telecommunication paradigm in the converging world of broadband access. We are impressed with ADC's strategic focus and believe this relationship will benefit both companies," said Vijaya Verma, Alopa's founder. "Our solutions will help our partners and mutual customers offer differentiated services, resulting not only in increased revenues, but also increased customer retention and loyalty."

About Alopa Networks

Alopa Networks is focused on providing state-of-the-art Subscriber Service Solutions that will enable the world's converging Cable, DSL and Wireless Broadband Service Providers to offer value added solutions to their subscribers. Alopa's solutions will allow vendors to provide their customers solutions to control and manage the services life-cycle reliably, efficiently, and cost effectively. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Alopa Networks, Inc. is a privately held company with development sites in Santa Clara, California and Bangalore, India.

About ADC

ADC Telecommunications, Inc. is a leading global supplier of network equipment, software and integration services for broadband, multi-service networks that deliver data, video and voice communications over telephone, cable television, Internet, broadcast, wireless and enterprise networks. ADC's broadband, multi-service network solutions enable local access, high-speed transmission and software management of communications services from service providers to consumers and businesses over fiber-optic, copper, coaxial and wireless media. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ADC has approximately 14,400 employees around the world and annual sales of $2.1 billion. ADC's stock is included in the Standard and Poor's 500 Index and the Nasdaq-100 Index. For additional information, visit our Web site at www.adc.com.