ADC, Sumitomo, PLP Team on FTTX

MINNEAPOLIS -- ADC (Nasdaq:ADCT)(www.adc.com), Sumitomo Electric and Preformed Line Products (PLP) (Nasdaq:PLPC) today announced that the companies have teamed together to develop and engineer a fiber-to-the-premise (FTTX) connectivity solution for use within major telecommunications service provider networks. The alliance offers the collective products - augmented by the engineering, field, and manufacturing expertise - of the three market leaders to bring a customizable and flexible connectivity solution to telecommunication service providers.

"This is a tremendous leap in helping carriers deliver fiber services not just to the edge of the network, but to the home, business and other locations," said Pat O'Brien, president of the Connectivity Business Unit for ADC. "Our work with Sumitomo and PLP has enabled us to combine engineering efforts, field experience, and product expertise to deliver the best fiber connectivity solution for FTTX deployments at a very competitive cost."

In the fiber solution developed specifically for FTTX applications, ADC delivers proven, market leading fiber connectivity equipment including hardened outdoor cabinets, fiber termination storage and splicing, and fiber connectorization. Sumitomo Electric provides fiber cable including feeder, distribution and drop cable along with passive optical components all connectorized with ADC products. PLP provides the access terminals and splice closures needed in any FTTX deployment.

"Service providers must architect their FTTX network right the first time in order to minimize capital expenses while ensuring a network that will last well into the future," said Fred McDuffee, president for Sumitomo Electric Lightwave. "By combining our products, we now offer the most comprehensive fiber-to-the-home solution available. This is truly a complete end-to-end offering that solves every passive equipment need that exists in an FTTX deployment."

"PLP is pleased to join ADC and Sumitomo in developing an offering designed to fit service providers' FTTX needs," said Robert Ruhlman, president and CEO for PLP. "Our closures available with the FTTX bundle are designed to enhance a technician's capability to quickly access and splice fiber where needed. Engineering a highly configurable solution with other leading manufacturers was a logical decision to make."

The FTTX offering helps answer service providers' needs as they begin to deploy fiber further into metro and residential neighborhoods. The fiber deployments are necessary in order to meet existing and future high speed data, Internet, video, and voice demands placed on existing copper-based networks. Combined, the service provider deployments could result in spending more than $2.5 billion annually on network equipment needed to deliver new services via fiber.

ADC Telecommunications Inc.

Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd.

Preformed Line Products Co. (PLP)