ADTRAN Solution Enables High-Bandwidth Services for SME Customers
Korea Telecom Selects ADTRAN for Carrier Ethernet Services

HUNTSVILLE, AL, April 15, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- KT Corporation, the leading telecommunications service provider in Korea and one of the largest and most advanced in Asia, announced that it has selected ADTRAN(R)'s (NASDAQ: ADTN)Total Access(R) 5000 Multiservice Access and Aggregation Platform and NetVanta(R) 800 series of network termination units to support KT's X4BIZ PLUS Carrier Ethernet service to small and medium enterprises. This solution will allow KT to immediately deliver guaranteed, high-bandwidth business connections using the service velocity and ubiquity of Ethernet over bonded circuits (EoCu, EoTDM) with the ability to concurrently support the scalability and reach of optical Ethernet (EoF) for future Gigabit Ethernet services.

"ADTRAN has an extensive portfolio of residential broadband and business Ethernet solutions. The ADTRAN solution provides superior flexibility allowing us to offer multiple services to a variety of market segments from a single platform," said Jin Tae Kim, manager of Managed Business Department, KT. "In addition to their flexibility, the Total Access(R) and NetVanta(R) product families will allow us to efficiently scale services, allowing us to immediately address today's business Ethernet services market, while minimizing our capital and operational investment as we continue to enhance and expand our services in the future."

"The delivery of cost-effective, resilient Carrier Ethernet services is strategic for carriers like KT, who are expanding services to address the needs of small and mid-size enterprises," said Jason Morgan, director of product management, ADTRAN Carrier Networks Division. "The ADTRAN solution provides operators a simplified delivery mechanism for offering next-generation Ethernet services such as business LAN extension, direct Internet access or 4G mobile backhaul."

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