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Windom, Minnesota Brings Broadband to Residents with ADC OmniReach FTTX Solutions; Rural Minnesota Municipality Lays the Foundation for Long-Term Economic Vitality

Business Wire, May 19, 2005

MINNEAPOLIS -- ADC (NASDAQ:ADCT; www.adc.com), a market leader for fiber-to-the-x (FTTX) solutions, today announced that Windom, Minnesota has recently unveiled its $8.6 million city-owned broadband network supported by ADC's OmniReach(TM) FTTX infrastructure solutions. Known as Windomnet, the Windom community now offers its residents Minnesota's first municipally owned fiber-optic network delivering services that include digital cable, telephone and high-speed Internet provided to the city's homes, businesses and schools.

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"ADC's FTTX solution provides us with an efficient and scalable way to deliver a full suite of voice, data and video services to our residents with the necessary 'future proofing' for maximum bandwidth," said Dennis Nelson, city administrator. "Our future as a community is driven by our bandwidth requirements and fiber has unlimited bandwidth. It can carry anything, not only today but anything conceivable in the future making it future-proof."

Windom's fiber-optic network provides 100 megabits per second of high-speed Internet to the city's residents, which is 67 times faster than 1.5-megabit DSL service and 20 to 25 times faster than cable modem access. The city buried miles of fiber-optic cable to support its growing bandwidth requirements. Windom also operates its own cable company and only a fiber system provided the necessary bandwidth to handle video as well as Internet access and phone service. Rural municipalities like Windom are choosing fiber because it provides the ability to support the "triple play" of voice, data and video.

"The City of Windom chose the ADC OmniReach product line because it is the right FTTX solution for their municipality's residential and commercial customers," said Tom Kampf, director of product management of FTTX Solutions for ADC. "This product line is designed from the ground-up to meet the unique requirements of FTTX networks. By building their network infrastructures based on ADC's OmniReach FTTX solutions, municipalities like Windom are accelerating deployment, maximizing operational efficiency and making their FTTX plans a reality today, while future-proofing their networks for tomorrow."

Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty has been advocating the importance of enabling rural communities to compete in the global marketplace with high-speed connectivity as the backbone. The City of Windom is a growing city of 4,500 residents in Southwest Minnesota that serves as a thriving transportation hub for the region. It also boasts a diverse economy that includes manufacturing, agriculture and medical businesses.

"Our new state-of-the-art network based on the innovative OmniReach FTTX product family combined with new state-sponsored economic development tools will send a powerful and compelling message to businesses thinking about expanding to the City of Windom," said Jim King, economic development director for Windom. "We have low cost land, an excellent labor force, and attractive tax incentives that make business development in Windom an attractive and profitable option."

It is estimated that $1.5-3.5 billion will be spent annually by telecommunications service providers during the next five years as FTTX networks are deployed in the United States. New FTTX projects initiated by carriers and municipalities have increased by more than 100 percent since 2000.

About ADC OmniReach FTTX Solutions

ADC's OmniReach Solutions are the industry's first platforms designed from the ground up to meet the unique requirements of FTTX networks. By building network infrastructures upon ADC's OmniReach Solutions, service providers nationwide are accelerating deployment and maximizing operational efficiency from the central office to the outside plant.

About ADC

ADC provides the connections for wireline, wireless, cable, broadcast, and enterprise networks around the world. ADC's innovative network infrastructure equipment and professional services enable high-speed Internet, data, video, and voice services to residential, business and mobile subscribers. ADC (NASDAQ: ADCT) has sales into more than 150 countries. Learn more about ADC at www.adc.com.

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Windom, Minnesota Brings Broadband to Residents with ADC OmniReach FTTX Solutions; Rural Minnesota Municipality Lays the Foundation for Long-Term Economic Vitality

Business Wire, May 19, 2005

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