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Subj: TELLABS AND COHERENT TO COMPLETE MERGER Date: 98-07-23 12:13:35 EDT From: new@tellabs.com (Tellabs News) To: webmaster@tellabs.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 07/23/98 CONTACT: Thomas P. Scottino (630) 378-7504 tom.scottino@tellabs.com www.tellabs.com TELLABS AND COHERENT TO COMPLETE MERGER Lisle, Ill. -- Tellabs, Inc., and Coherent Communications Systems Corporation have been advised by the staff of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice that the Division has completed its review of the merger of Tellabs and Coherent and has determined to take no further action. Consequently, Tellabs and Coherent anticipate closing their merger in early August. Coherent Communications Systems Corporation designs, manufactures and markets echo cancellation and conferencing products for major international telecommunications companies, cellular and PCS providers, network operators, and Fortune 500 companies. Tellabs designs, manufactures, markets and services voice and data transport and access systems. The company's products are used worldwide by the providers of communications services. Tellabs, Inc., stock is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market (TLAB). Tellabs and the Tellabs logo are registered U.S. trademarks of Tellabs Operations, Inc. in the United States and/or in other countries. ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: <new@tellabs.com> Received: from relay27.mx.aol.com (relay27.mail.aol.com [172.31.109.27]) by air16.mail.aol.com (v46.19) with SMTP; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 12:13:33 -0400 Received: from tellab5.tellabs.com (tellab5.tellabs.com [138.111.243.28]) by relay27.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with SMTP id MAA29230; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 12:12:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tellabs.com by tellab5.tellabs.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #4) id m0yzNk0-003BCwC; Thu, 23 Jul 98 10:57 CDT Message-ID: <35B60CB3.96AF2764@tellabs.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 11:00:51 -0500 From: Tellabs News <new@tellabs.com> Organization: Tellabs Operations, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: webmaster@tellabs.com Subject: TELLABS AND COHERENT TO COMPLETE MERGER Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subj: TELLABS AND COHERENT TO COMPLETE MERGER Date: 98-07-23 12:13:35 EDT From: new@tellabs.com (Tellabs News) To: webmaster@tellabs.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 07/23/98 CONTACT: Thomas P. Scottino (630) 378-7504 tom.scottino@tellabs.com www.tellabs.com TELLABS AND COHERENT TO COMPLETE MERGER Lisle, Ill. -- Tellabs, Inc., and Coherent Communications Systems Corporation have been advised by the staff of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice that the Division has completed its review of the merger of Tellabs and Coherent and has determined to take no further action. Consequently, Tellabs and Coherent anticipate closing their merger in early August. Coherent Communications Systems Corporation designs, manufactures and markets echo cancellation and conferencing products for major international telecommunications companies, cellular and PCS providers, network operators, and Fortune 500 companies. Tellabs designs, manufactures, markets and services voice and data transport and access systems. The company's products are used worldwide by the providers of communications services. Tellabs, Inc., stock is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market (TLAB). Tellabs and the Tellabs logo are registered U.S. trademarks of Tellabs Operations, Inc. in the United States and/or in other countries. ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: <new@tellabs.com> Received: from relay27.mx.aol.com (relay27.mail.aol.com [172.31.109.27]) by air16.mail.aol.com (v46.19) with SMTP; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 12:13:33 -0400 Received: from tellab5.tellabs.com (tellab5.tellabs.com [138.111.243.28]) by relay27.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with SMTP id MAA29230; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 12:12:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tellabs.com by tellab5.tellabs.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #4) id m0yzNk0-003BCwC; Thu, 23 Jul 98 10:57 CDT Message-ID: <35B60CB3.96AF2764@tellabs.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 11:00:51 -0500 From: Tellabs News <new@tellabs.com> Organization: Tellabs Operations, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: webmaster@tellabs.com Subject: TELLABS AND COHERENT TO COMPLETE MERGER Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit