Celite Systems Wins SUPERQuest Award at SUPERCOMM 2003; DSL Headend Technology Awarded for ``Most Promising Network Technology, Access Networking Equipment''.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SUPERCOMM 2003

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 16, 2003

Celite Systems, an innovation leader in broadband access network equipment, was recently honored at SUPERCOMM's 6th Annual SUPERQuest Awards Ceremony, held June 3 at the Georgia World Congress Center. Celite Systems' DSL Headend won the SUPERQuest award for Most Promising Network Technology, Access Networking Equipment. This award recognizes new access technologies that display excellence in network design and infrastructure enhancements. Celite Systems was one of only 11 companies in total honored as a winner of a SUPERQuest award. This award is the latest in a series of industry accolades for Celite Systems' technology including the designation of "Product of the Month" from Telecommunications magazine.

Celite Systems' DSL Headend products and technology enable facility-based copper access providers (RBOCs, IOCs, and PTTs) to cost effectively deliver broadband services to the mass market. Through its innovative broadcast DSL (BDSL(tm)) technology, Celite Systems pre-wires entire neighborhoods for broadband at speeds faster than or equal to what is currently offered. This approach to pre-wiring neighborhoods, coupled with Celite Systems' Zero-Touch(tm) Service Activation allows carriers to reduce the CAPEX and OPEX associated with provisioning and activating broadband access subscribers by more than 75 percent -- resulting in greater price flexibility to capture additional customers.

"To be recognized by such a renowned group of industry leaders at SUPERCOMM is both a great honor, as well as a magnificent validation of Celite Systems' value proposition -- making broadband services easier, cheaper, and faster to install for RBOCs, IOCs, and PTTs around the globe," said Roger Dorf, president and CEO of Celite Systems. "By leveraging the carriers' existing network infrastructure to deliver broadband to an entire neighborhood with one truck roll, our DSL Headend facilitates the carriers' ability to significantly and profitably accelerate their market share of DSL subscribers relative to their cable competitors."

For six years, the SUPERQuest Awards have honored the best-built networks and most promising new technologies among SUPERCOMM exhibitors and their customers worldwide. SUPERQuest Award recipients have been selected as the best of the best in delivering exceptional network design, supporting technologies and products across all facets of the communications infrastructure industry. Winners are selected by a panel of judges which include industry leading technology press, analysts and other experts.

According to Jack Chalden, general manager of SUPERCOMM, "The strength and resiliency of this industry is reflected in the SUPERQuest Award Winners and Runners-Up. These forward-thinking, innovative companies give promise to the continuing growth and development of this industry and show us exactly where we should be headed in the future."

SUPERQuest Award nominations were accepted based on the following criteria:

    --  Companies must have a presence at SUPERCOMM 2003, either
        through their own booth, that of a partner or by securing
        meeting room space on the exhibit floor.

    --  Service Providers or Enterprise Organizations (Product Service
        Manufacturer) who have put their services or operations into
        commercial use during the previous calendar year (2002).

    --  Vendors and/or Suppliers nominated for new technologies and
        products must have released their products to the market
        within one month of SUPERCOMM 2003 (May 1, 2003).

The SUPERQuest award judges were: Judging Chairman, John Salak from Tele.com; Charles Hempfling and Michael Friduss from Hempfling, Friduss & Associates; Terry Sweeney an Independent Consultant; Deb Mielke from Treillage Network Strategies, Inc.; Kathryn Korostoff from Sage Research, Inc.; Kate Gerwig, Tere' Bracco, Brian Washburn and Ron Westfall from Current Analysis; Jonathan Collins an Independent Consultant/Journalist; Mark Rockwell from Wireless Week; Joan Engebretson from America's Network; Sue O'Keefe from Telecommunications; Jason Meyers from Telephony, Scott Kane from ComExpres Communications; Danny Briere, Claudia Bacco and Pat Hurley from TeleChoice; and Michael Khalilian from NTT-AT.

SUPERCOMM 2003, the premier annual communications infrastructure technology exhibition and conference, was held at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta June 1-5.

The premier annual communications infrastructure exhibition and conference, SUPERCOMM is owned jointly by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), http://www.tiaonline.org/, Arlington, Va. and the United States Telecom Association (USTA), http://www.usta.org/, Washington, D.C.