Executive Suite: PairGain Appoints Warren Roddy Senior Vice President of North American Sales; PairGain Further Enhances Executive Team - Company Operations

Cambridge Telcom Report, July 12, 1999

PairGain Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: PAIR), a leader in broadband access systems, Wednesday announced the appointment of Warren Roddy as senior vice president, North American sales, effective immediately. Mr. Roddy assumes responsibility for all of the Company's North American sales activities, including channel relationships with an ever-expanding customer base. Mr. Roddy also will provide strategic sales direction in the region to assure PairGain's success within emerging carrier markets, while cultivating even stronger relationships with the Company's traditional customer base.

"We're fortunate and excited to have an executive of Warren's caliber join the PairGain team," said Mike Pascoe, PairGain's president and CEO. "Warren brings an attractive combination of successful sales experience in the industry, coupled with strong leadership skills. We're confident he'll make an immediate and very positive impact."

Warren Roddy has many years of successful sales management experience in the communications industry, most recently serving as vice president of sales at Diamond Lane Communications. He was also instrumental in Diamond Lane's successful launch and eventual buyout by Nokia Communications last March. Before Diamond Lane, he held senior sales management positions with Cisco Systems and N.E.T. While at Cisco, Mr. Roddy was responsible for strategic planning and management of Cisco's highly successful MCI account, growing revenues in excess of 30 percent each quarter.

PairGain is the leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) networking systems. Service providers and private network operators worldwide use PairGain's products to deploy DSL-based services such as high-speed Internet, remote LAN access and enterprise LAN extension.

For more than 10 years, PairGain has been recognized as a technological leader and industry innovator of telecommunications equipment. The Company offers the widest range of DSL-based systems available. Product lines include HiGain Solitaire HDSL2 solutions, HiGain T1/E1 access systems, PG-FlexPlus, PG-Flex and PG-Plus subscriber carrier systems, the Avidia System, Megabit Modems and Campus-HRS megabit access products. Well over 1.5 million PairGain DSL nodes are installed in over 70 countries. Additional information about the Company is available on the Internet at www.pairgain.com.