Verilink Expands Optical Ethernet Portfolio With the Orion 7450 Ethernet Over SDH Access Platform

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/.

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