Cavalier Selects ADTRAN to Deliver Ethernet Access for Business Customers

ADTRAN®, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation access solutions, announced today that Cavalier, a leading provider of competitive telecommunications services throughout the eastern United States, has selected the ADTRAN Total Access® 5000 Multi-Service Access and Aggregation Platform (MSAP) and NetVanta® 800 Series products for its Ethernet offerings.

"The Total Access 5000 Ethernet solution allows us to leverage our infrastructure for the delivery of advanced Ethernet services while guaranteeing Quality of Service (QoS) in the access network,” said Jim Vermeulen, executive vice president of operations, Cavalier. "We required a carrier-class platform with redundancy and a rich portfolio of advanced Ethernet capabilities to offer our business customers. The ADTRAN solution offers all of this in a platform with significant future capacity. When you couple that with ADTRAN's financial stability and long history of access leadership in our market, the decision was an easy one.”

"The introduction of the Ethernet access solution by Cavalier continues to strengthen our long-term business relationship,” said P. Steven Locke, vice president of sales, service providers, ADTRAN Carrier Networks Division. "Service providers like Cavalier need a logical way to enhance their service offerings while leveraging their installed infrastructure.”

The ADTRAN Total Access 5000 combined with the NetVanta 800 Series family provides a highly scalable end-to-end Ethernet solution. ADTRAN's Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF)-certified solution provides carriers with a powerful set of traffic management, QoS and measurement capabilities. These features allow carriers to offer flexible SLA-based services to their end-user customers. Inherent in the solution are the necessary resiliency and redundancy features to enable a service provider to offer and support high-availability network performance that business customers expect.

About Cavalier

Cavalier, headquartered in Virginia, is a full-service provider of reliable and efficient telecommunications solutions for business, consumer, and government customers. Using its owned and operated fiber optic network, the company serves hundreds of thousands of customers throughout the eastern United States. From landline voice to managed network services, customers depend on Cavalier for a wide range of communications products that drive their businesses and simplify their lives. Cavalier strives to combine technology with customer commitment to deliver the best value available. For more information, please visit Cavalier on the Web at http://www.cavtel.com.

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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