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To: Jay Mowery who wrote (990)	9/4/2000 8:27:38 AM
From: max power	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1944

ADC Optimises Near Field Holography Manufacturing Process CCN Disclosure - September 04, 2000 02:01 MUNICH, GERMANY-- For Use in the Integrated Optics and Semiconductor Industries Through its recent acquisition of IBSEN Micro Structures A/S, ADC has optimized a manufacturing process, where very small nanometer structures can be transferred and replicated in high volume manufacturing setups. Target application of the Near Field Holography (NFH) process is within the optical industry especially in the telecom industry, where the need for integrated optical circuits such as distributedfeedback (DFB) lasers and other grating-based integrated components is growing rapidly. ADC's NFH process, together with its Phase masks, enables replication of structures as small as 100 nanometers in large-scale manufacturing using cost-effective contact print technology to manufacture optical gratings. E-beam and crossed laser beam alternatives are less practical in a production environment due to high costs of ownership. Also, optical stepperspresently lack the resolution capability in addition to a high cost-of-ownership value. ADC has pioneered the commercialization of this process together with Karl Suss, the world leader in mask aligners for the semiconductor industry. Per Ibsen, director of research and development at ADC in Denmark,states that "Although the basic principles are easy to understand,as we are dealing with a lithographic process well known from the semiconductor industry, there is the important difference that we are operating with much smaller structures, which adds complexity to the process. believe that the NFH process will be adapted by many companies in the semiconductor, optical and sensor industriesaround the world, since the benefits from our process are so convincing in terms of cost savings and productivity". According to Mr. Elmar Cullmann, Principal Scientist at Karl Suss,"The development of a proprietary NFH manufacturing process by ADC, combined with our mask aligner technology, enables us to offer solutions to our customers that historically have been impossible. Now we can go beyond traditional printing techniques and can offer tools that are capable of reproducing grating structures down to 100nm line size. We are impressed by ADC Denmark's professionalism in this special field of optical technology and their ability to provide workable solutions". About Karl Suss Karl Suss is a global supplier of manufacturing equipment and process technology for advanced packaging, microelectronics and MEMS market. With over 6,000 systems installed, SUSS products include coating and developing systems, proximity lithography systems, substrate bonders, flip chip bonders and probe systems. Headquartered in Munich, Germany, Suss operates 9 manufacturing, sales and service centers in North America, Europe, Asia and Japan. To learn more about Karl Suss and its full line of products, please visit our web site at www.suss.com News release issued on behalf of Suss MicroTec AG (Ticker Symbol SMH at Frankfurt Stock Exchange Neuer Markt), holding company of Karl Suss, www.suss.d

To: Jay Mowery who wrote (990)	9/7/2000 10:40:47 AM
From: max power	Respond to of 1944

ADC Announces Expanded OEM Agreement with Sonda Reseller to Offer ADC's NewNet Enhanced Services Products and Solutions Throughout Latin America MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 7, 2000-- ADC (Nasdaq: ADCT; www.adc.com), a leading global supplier of network equipment, software and integration services for broadband, multiservice networks, announced today that it has signed a new contract to allow Sonda S.A. (www.sonda.com) to distribute ADC's NewNet SMserver(TM) technology - and other leading messaging and infrastructure applications - to regional wireless network operators in Latin America. Under the agreement, Sonda will resell key elements of ADC's NewNet product line, including AccessMANAGER(TM), OTAserver(TM), SGLite(TM), CALEAserver(TM) and iCXserver(TM). ADC's NewNet SMserver software provides digital wireless operators the ability to generate additional revenue and potentially increase airtime usage by adding short message service (SMS) applications to their portfolio of value-added subscriber services. The NewNet SMserver software manages transmission of text messages to mobile handsets, providing subscribers with voicemail notification, digital pages and custom short text messages. Indeed, NewNet SMserver has demonstrated in benchmark tests that it can deliver a throughput of 1,044,000 message delivery attempts per hour on a single computer. With the demand for SMS increasing at a meteoric rate, industry experts now estimate that wireless data may constitute 25% of (worldwide) network traffic, with more than 100 million people using such services. According to the GSM Association, growth of SMS in Latin America alone, not including voicemail alerts, is forecasted to reach 17 billion messages per month by the end of 2002 - compared with under half a billion today. A system of the power, speed and scalability of ADC's NewNet SMserver will be supportive of that growth. ADC's NewNet OTAserver software provides digital wireless operators the ability to provision wireless services quickly, cost-effectively and securely. The server software accepts, manages, and ensures reliable completion of subscriber activation, authentication and roaming list update services "over-the-air." The other products in the agreement allow telcos to manage their SS7 and IP access and switching requirements, and conform to lawful intercept requirements. "ADC's NewNet SMserver solution offers speed, reliability and a clear growth path, while the other ADC solutions we have undertaken to resell have proven themselves in rigorous comparative tests against other vendors' products", said Andres Navarro, president of Sonda. "ADC clearly understands the future of messaging and the future of Latin American telecommunications." "ADC is very pleased to be commencing a distribution relationship with a partner of the regional stature of Sonda," said Grant Wakelin, president of ADC's Enhanced Services Division. "Latin America is an important, fast growing and highly competitive market, and we plan to build on this relationship for the long-term." ADC's Enhanced Services Division is a leading supplier of global telecommunications software for the convergence of voice and data communications in wireless, wireline and next generation networks. The NewNet product line consists of SS7 platforms commercially deployed in over 45 countries, as well as short messaging and over-the-air service provisioning solutions, SS7-IP gateways and Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) compliant lawful intercept solutions.