Agere Systems Launches TrueONE(TM) for Delivering Carrier-Class Voice, Data and IPTV/HDTV Services to Homes, Businesses and Mobile Users Over a Single Truly Converged Public and Premise Network

Agere Systems Launches TrueONE(TM) for Delivering Carrier-Class Voice, Data and IPTV/HDTV Services to Homes, Businesses and Mobile Users Over a Single Truly Converged Public and Premise Network

		Agere Systems is a global leader in semiconductors for storage, wireless data, and public and enterprise networks. The company's chips and software power a broad range of computing and communications applications, from cell phones, PCs, PDAs, hard disk drives and gaming devices to the world’s most sophisticated wireless and wireline networks. Agere's customers include the top manufacturers of consumer electronics, communications and computing equipment. (PRNewsFoto)[TC TK] ALLENTOWN, PA USA

- From the people that helped create the world's most reliable voice network comes TrueONE, enabling content and service providers to deliver-with maximum reliability-billable, higher quality and higher bandwidth, current and next-generation services to anyone, anywhere, anytime. This is done over a single and unified public, business and home network. CHICAGO, June 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Agere Systems (NYSE: AGR) today announced TrueONE(TM): The Trusted Network. A first-of-its-kind portfolio of solutions, TrueONE embraces a new and long-term vision -- as well as a more streamlined approach -- for network service providers to solve their most vexing and critical business and technical challenges. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040618/AGERELOGO ) TrueONE provides the most reliable, intelligent and complete solution suite built specifically for service providers' public, business and home networks compared to any solution available. TrueONE enables service providers-for the first time ever-to deliver new carrier-grade, real-time reliable services in homes, businesses, and to the mobile user anytime, anywhere on one unified network. Agere's new solution and software platforms enable service providers to extend their operations and expand their service offerings beyond their traditional core and edge, wireline and wireless network locations, and into homes and businesses. This extension expands highly sought after market opportunities, creating new, lucrative revenue streams by offering a new class of carrier-managed consumer and business services. Agere's TrueONE enables service providers to offer more levels of differ entiated, high-margin, billable services at various pricing tiers. TrueONE accomplishes this by enabling remote, on-demand, precise control, monitoring and re-configuration based on real-time customer needs. Using TrueONE, service providers improve and manage network operations and service delivery by meeting stringent latency (delay) requirements of voice over IP and video on demand services; reduce capital and operating expenses; increase the average revenue generated per user (ARPU); and improve customer satisfaction and retention with higher-quality service performance and with new service offerings. Services include Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), High Definition Television (HDTV), video on demand (VOD), digital video recording (DVR), online gaming , video conferencing, massive local and remote content storage and, of course, carrier-grade voice over IP (VoIP) telephony. Agere's TrueONE introduction coincides with this week's GLOBALCOMM conference and exhibition. Agere will demonstrate TrueONE's comprehensive capabilities -- never achieved before -- at its booth (#63062). "It isn't a secret that service and content providers, along with information technology (IT) vendors, are pushing faster, more feature-rich, and more affordable services into homes and businesses over a converged IP network," said Samir Samhouri, executive vice president and general manager of the Networking Division of Agere Systems. "However, making money on such services depends on the reliability and quality of these services. TrueONE delivers these benefits to them by 'seeding' and enhancing gateway and access network intelligence for homes and businesses. This process spawns a huge new frontier for service provider revenue growth," said Samhouri. "TrueONE provides this value cost effectively with much more "brain power" than ever attainable before." Consumers benefit from TrueONE, too. "Consumers don't want different network service behavior at their homes, offices, and local coffee shop," Samhouri added. "They want to receive all their services-regardless of where they are-the same way and as reliably and deterministically as they get from the previous generation of voice networks." Because of its rich technology expertise and heritage, Agere possesses the unmatched, real-world core competency for delivering these differ entiated TrueONE solutions. With its roots as part of AT&T, Bell Labs and Western Electric, Agere's solutions and know-how helped design the world's largest and most reliable communications system ever built: the public circuit switched telephone network. No other chip company has this unique and relevant background for delivering carrier-grade solutions for service providers. Using Agere's silicon chips, software, and system expertise, TrueONE solutions are designed for use in various types of equipment, including carrier-managed home, small office, home office, small and medium business services gateways, as well as multi-service wireline and wireless access platforms. Agere's TrueONE solutions include a wire-speed communication platform augmented by a service-enabling platform. Agere's PayloadPlus(R) network processors, which combine IP processing and world-leading traffic management, are the "brains" of the TrueONE communications platforms. Used today in major carrier and enterprise equipment worldwide, these chips enable service providers to offer connections that operate at and maintain true and full line-capacity without degrading user service performance. While network processors form the "brains" of TrueONE, Gigabit Ethernet switching chip solutions represent the "heart" of these solutions. Designed for switching triple play services, these chips do not drop packets even at large "jumbo" sizes. The chips also facilitate in-home high definition TV delivery over Ethernet technology. Alternative switching solutions today cannot achieve these levels of performance. Agere's services-enabling TrueONE offerings also showcase the company's digital signal processor (DSP) system chips. These solutions enable delivery of highly delay-sensitive video and voice traffic with the appropriate level of quality previously only possible for voice services with the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). TrueONE delivers this voice service quality over the new, converged IP network originating in homes, businesses, or mobile networks. Agere's TrueONE solutions are available now. For more information, customers may visit Agere's Web site at http://www.agere.com or contact one of Agere's regional sales offices. Customers in the U.S. may also call the Agere Systems Customer Response Center at 1-800-372-2447. Customers in Canada may call 1-800-553-2448. Customers outside those countries may call 1-610-712-4323. Fax inquiries may be directed to 1-610-712-4106, or e-mail queries to docmaster@agere.com. Written inquiries should be sent to Agere Systems, Room 10A-301C, 1110 American Parkway NE, Lehigh Valley Central Campus, Allentown, PA, 18109, USA. Agere Systems is a global leader in semiconductors for storage, wireless data, and public and enterprise networks. The company's chips and software power a broad range of computing and communications applications, from cell phones, PCs, PDAs, hard disk drives and gaming devices to the world's most sophisticated wireless and wireline networks. Agere's customers include top manufacturers of consumer electronics, communications and computing equipment. Agere's products connect people to information and entertainment at home, at work and on the road-enabling the connected lifestyle. More information about Agere Systems is available from its web site at http://www.agere.com. Agere, Agere Systems, the Agere Systems logo and PayloadPlus are registered trademarks and TrueONE is a trademark of Agere Systems Inc. This release contains forward-looking statements based on information currently available to Agere. Agere's actual results could differ materially from the results stated or implied by those forward-looking statements due to a number of risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, our reliance on major customers and suppliers, our ability to keep pace with technological change, our dependence on new product development, price and product competition, availability of manufacturing capacity, customer demand for our products and services, and general industry and market conditions. For a further discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties, see our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2005 and our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2006. Agere disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.