ADTRAN Boosts Industry-Leading Mobile Backhaul Portfolio

ADTRAN, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN), a leading supplier of mobile backhaul solutions, today announced the expansion of its mobile backhaul portfolio with the addition of Fiber Ethernet Access and Pseudowire (PWE3) gateway capabilities. ADTRAN's widely deployed Total Access 5000 and OPTI-6100 access solutions now support a comprehensive group of advanced access options tailored for mobile backhaul applications including GPON, Fiber Ethernet Access, multi-pair bonded DSL, and legacy TDM solutions. The addition of Fiber Ethernet Access and PWE3 further enhances ADTRAN's portfolio, giving operators a range of solutions that is perfectly tailored to enable the circuit-to-packet transition required for significant gains in backhaul capacity and network efficiency.

"Currently there are about 240,000 cell sites in North America, with about 70 percent today fed by multiple T1s, and the vast majority of these T1s use ADTRAN HDSL equipment,” stated Michael Howard, principal analyst, Infonetics Research. "The global mobile broadband phenomenon is causing unprecedented growth in cell-site bandwidth needs, forcing providers and operators to deploy fiber to cell sites as quickly as possible. The reality is that cell sites cannot be fiberized quickly enough, which means that cell site backhaul products must be flexible in offering a mix of TDM and Ethernet as well as options for copper and fiber uplinks. Vendors such as ADTRAN are cognizant of these requirements and have built product families to meet these needs.”

"As mobile operators continue transitioning toward higher-bandwidth mobile broadband technologies like Wi-MAX and LTE, advanced access options are critical to provide additional capacity and quality of service. However, just as critical is ensuring that support for existing networks is not sacrificed,” said Jay Wilson, senior vice president and general manager, ADTRAN Carrier Networks Division. "ADTRAN has a comprehensive suite of carrier-proven mobile backhaul solutions with plans for continued innovation on the horizon. Our goal is to continue to build market leadership by offering the most flexible portfolio of mobile backhaul solutions on the market.”

ADTRAN offers one of the industry's most comprehensive mobile backhaul portfolios anchored by the OPTI-6100 high-density, multi-service, optical access platform and the Total Access 5000 Multi-Service Access and Aggregation Platform. These solutions are designed to provide optimal performance, while reducing capex and ongoing operational expenses. The Total Access 5000 is unique in its ability to provide a common platform for a mix of residential broadband, business Ethernet and mobile backhaul services over both optical and copper access technologies. The OPTI-6100 is designed to meet small and large customer bandwidth needs and offers the industry's most flexible deployment options for optical ring-based access networks. This allows service providers to benefit from streamlined operational requirements with a single platform acting as a centralized traffic management, local switching, and service assurance platform.

ADTRAN's Mobile Backhaul portfolio also boasts a wide range of purpose-built network termination equipment (NTE), supporting native Ethernet and TDM pseudowire capabilities. Service providers can simplify operations and reduce time to market through common management, provisioning and troubleshooting - regardless of the physical media. The flexibility of these platforms, which are already deployed globally in support of these advanced access networks, enables carriers to maximize the number of different applications supported by single platforms, creating a fully integrated access infrastructure.

About ADTRAN

ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider of networking and communications equipment, with a portfolio of more than 1,700 solutions for use in the last mile of today's telecommunications networks. Widely deployed by carriers and enterprises alike, ADTRAN solutions enable voice, data, video, and Internet communications across copper, fiber, and wireless network infrastructures. ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by every major U.S. service provider and many global ones, as well as by thousands of public, private and governmental organizations worldwide.

For more information, contact the company at 800 9ADTRAN (800 923-8726) or via email at info@adtran.com. On the Web, visit www.adtran.com.

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