Zero dB Joins Corning Total Access Program(SM) (TAP); Program Offers Members, Their Customers Access to FTTH Deployment Advantages.

HICKORY, N.C. -- Corning Cable Systems, part of Corning Incorporated's (NYSE: GLW) Telecommunications segment, announces Zero dB as the newest member of the selective Corning Total Access Program(SM) (TAP).

Corning's TAP provides highly qualified design, engineering, furnishing and installation companies with the tools necessary to ensure successful fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) deployments. Certified TAP members receive all-inclusive access to Corning's innovative and reliable FTTH solution. After completing specialized training in the installation of optical access networks, TAP members are able to offer their customers up to a 10-year extended product warranty on complete Corning FTTH solutions (drop cables and assemblies carry a 3-year warranty).

Founded in 1994, Zero dB is an experienced engineering and consulting firm that creates network and facility solutions to meet the broad spectrum of voice, video and data needs of its clients. The company is committed to providing the engineering and consulting expertise required to support FTTH network projects and programs and is currently planning, engineering and implementing FTTH networks for municipalities, green field real estate developers and public utility districts around the globe.

"We have been behind the concept of the Total Access Program from the beginning," said Dana Bisaro, chief executive officer of Zero dB. "The program gives everyone involved an advantage. It gives us the specific training we need to deploy FTTH networks, and it is great for the client to know that Corning is prepared to stand behind their products like no one else."

Robert Whitman, Corning's manager of broadband market development, said "Zero dB's capabilities in designing and engineering FTTH networks, as well as their one-of-a- kind interoperability lab, make them an exciting addition to the Total Access Program."

Through its Evolant(TM) Solutions for Access Networks, Corning Cable Systems offers specialized portfolios of innovative products and services that enable customers to cost-effectively deploy fiber in the last mile. Evolant Solutions for Access Networks encompasses state-of-the-art products that reduce the cost of deployment and increase the networks efficiency and reliability. The Evolant Solution also contains Corning(R) NexCor(R) optical fiber, an SMF-28e(R) innovation, with industry-leading attributes that addresses the unique needs of FTTH networks, while maintaining total backward compatibility with legacy standard single-mode fibers.

For additional information on Corning Cable Systems products or services, contact a customer service representative at 1-800-743-2675, toll free in the United States, or ([phone], international, or visit the Web site at www.corning.com/cablesystems. For additional information on Corning optical fiber, contact the Corning Optical Fiber Information Center at 1-800-525-2524, toll free in the United States, or ([phone], international, or visit the Web site at www.corning.com/opticalfiber.

About Corning Incorporated 

Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) is a diversified technology company that concentrates its efforts on high-impact growth opportunities. Corning combines its expertise in specialty glass, ceramic materials, polymers and the manipulation of the properties of light, with strong process and manufacturing capabilities to develop, engineer and commercialize significant innovative products for the telecommunications, flat panel display, environmental, semiconductor, and life sciences industries.

About Zero dB

Zero dB (www.zerodb.net) brings decades of telecommunications network and facilities design experience to an organization. Zero dB's goal is to ensure an appropriate deployment of technology to meet current and future requirements in the overall strategic planning process. Zero dB performs the engineering functions required to designed and implement networks tailored to the specific market areas as identified by client business plans and marketing forecasts. Zero dB is the only FTTH engineering company that operates its own independent interoperability lab for the benefit of its clients.