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Verilink Expands Optical Ethernet Portfolio With the Orion 7450 Ethernet Over SDH Access Platform New Generation Access Platform Enters Trials With International Customers in India and Asia CHICAGO, SUPERCOMM 2005, June 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Verilink Corporation (NASDAQ:VRLK), a leading provider of broadband access solutions, today announced the introduction of the new Orion 7450 Optical Ethernet over SDH (synchronous digital hierarchy) platform-based expansion of the Orion 7400 multiservice access product family addressing the international SDH market. At the largest telecommunications industry trade show in North America, Supercomm 2005, visitors at Verilink's booth #43025 will see the Orion 7450, Verilink's latest Ethernet over SDH optical solution. The Orion 7450 is a low-cost, 1RU platform that supports high-speed Ethernet and TDM services, enabling international carriers to economically enter the emerging Metro Ethernet services business with minimal investment for a quick ROI from a Capex perspective. As Ethernet continues to develop into a cost-effective and resilient access technology, international service providers are in the early stages of building scalable, high-speed Ethernet offerings into their services mix. SDH, as the international optical transport standard, is widely deployed in Europe and throughout the Asia Pacific region and presents carriers with tremendous opportunities to extend native Ethernet services to enterprises and residents within multi-tenant dwellings. By implementing the Orion 7450 at the access edge, carriers can maximize the multiservice flexibility of the metro network and deliver Ethernet services in excess of 155Mbps of bandwidth over SDH while maintaining existing revenue streams of traditional voice services. The Orion 7450 allows carriers to leverage their SDH optical investments and deliver new, revenue-generating Ethernet services in response to enterprise and residential demands. "Metro Ethernet is an emerging, high-growth market being driven by enterprise customer demand for lower-cost, high-speed data services," said Sab Gosal, Vice President of Marketing for Verilink. "Verilink's strategy is to offer carriers worldwide the ability to migrate and grow their service portfolio in order to take advantage of the added bandwidth inherent in their optical metro networks to add new revenue-generating services." "As carrier networks continue to carry increasing amounts of time critical, packet voice traffic and bandwidth-intensive business applications, service providers are looking for ways to take advantage of more economical technologies such as IP and Ethernet," said Michael Howard, principal analyst of Infonetics Research. "Fueled by increasing customer demands for higher speed services, international carriers, primarily in Asia and Europe, have been transitioning from legacy TDM to Ethernet over SDH optical networks to offer Ethernet services and to take advantage of these cost benefits. The Orion 7400 EoSONET platform, and the new Orion 7450 EoSDH platform, are good solutions for these purposes." Worldwide optical network hardware revenue grew 21% in 2H04 to $2.6 billion, according to Infonetics and this upward trend is expected to continue through 2008. To align itself with this market trend, Verilink developed the Orion 7450 for metro access and private network applications over SDH, providing carriers with the ability to optimize their infrastructure, while supporting next-generation services. In today's competitive telecommunications landscape, there is growing demand from both carriers and their end-customers for enhanced broadband data services. A majority of the overall traffic in metro networks is represented by broadband data services, including voice and video applications. Verilink's Orion 7450 gives operators a flexible and cost-effective means to address all traffic types -- both emerging data and more traditional services -- across the metro core to the metro access. The Orion 7450 SDH Multiservice Provisioning Platform (MSPP) is an optical multiplexer that enables a greater concentration of services, enhanced revenue, and service diversity for next-generation SDH-based carrier networks and cost-effective voice, video, and data aggregation for enterprise networks. The Orion 7450 Optical Multiplexer Verilink's Orion 7450 is an economical as well as an ideal space-saving multi-service system for customer premises and metropolitan access network applications delivering Ethernet services over SDH. Due to its compact design (1U height), the Orion 7450 offers customers space and power consumption savings as well as significant cost savings and integrates easily into an existing SDH network. Supporting industry-standard General Framing Procedure (GFP), Virtual Concatenation (VCAT) and Link Capacity Adjustment System (LCAS) provide nearly 100% bandwidth efficiency and allow carriers to easily scale bandwidth "on demand" in 1.5 Mbps increments. The Orion 7450 and the Orion 7400 family of optical multiplexers are available for purchase through Verilink's established network of channel partners. For a list of qualified partners and additional product information, please visit Verilink's web site at http://www.verilink.com/, or by phone at 1-800-verilink. About Verilink Corporation Verilink Corporation is a leading provider of next-generation broadband access solutions for today's and tomorrow's networks. The company develops, manufactures and markets a broad suite of products that enable carriers (ILECs, CLECs, IXCs, and IOCs) and enterprises to build converged access networks to cost-effectively deliver next-generation communications services to their end customers. The company's products include a complete line of VoIP, VoATM, VoDSL and TDM-based integrated access devices (IADs), optical access products, wire-speed routers, and bandwidth aggregation solutions including CSU/DSUs, multiplexers and DACS. The company also provides turnkey professional services to help carriers plan, manage and accelerate the deployment of new services. Verilink is headquartered in Centennial, CO (metro Denver area) with operations in Madison, AL and Newark, CA and sales offices in the U.S., Europe and Asia. To learn more about Verilink, visit the company's website at http://www.verilink.com/. NOTE: Verilink and the Verilink logo are registered trademarks of Verilink Corporation. DATASOURCE: Verilink Corporation CONTACT: Mike Rosenbaum of Verilink Corporation, +1-510-771-3326, or Web site: http://www.verilink.com/

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