ADTRAN Recognized for Innovation in Unified CommunicationsNetVanta Unified

ADTRAN, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN), announced today that the NetVanta Unified Communication (UC) Solutions Suite has added two more honors to its impressive list of industry awards. Unified Communications magazine named NetVanta UC as the recipient of its 2010 TMC Labs Innovation Award and 2009 Product of the Year Award.

'ADTRAN has demonstrated a commitment to quality and the continued advancement of the unified communications industry with the NetVanta Unified Communication Solutions Suite,' said Tom Keating, CTO and TMC Labs executive editorial director at TMC. 'ADTRAN deserves these prestigious honors, and I look forward to their future developments.'

'ADTRAN is honored to receive continued recognition for our contributions to innovation in unified communications,' said Tim Saunders, vice president of product management, ADTRAN Enterprise Networks Division. 'The NetVanta UC Solutions Suite allows each end-user to uniquely address their individual requirements to best meet their business needs. ADTRAN brings unprecedented simplicity and value to businesses looking for feature-rich unified communications solutions.'

The ADTRAN NetVanta Unified Communications software solutions enable businesses to drive workforce productivity and improve organizational responsiveness. ADTRAN delivers a solution with all the functionality that end-users have come to expect from a full-featured Unified Communications platform ' Windows-based VoIP telephony and legacy PBX integration; simple, centralized administration using Microsoft Active Directory; calls, messages and notifications when and where employees need them; and back-office integration tools that link it all together ' with personalized flexibility and simplicity for each unique business practice or process. By accommodating five to 2,000 users per server, the NetVanta UC solutions are ideal for all types of business from small businesses to large distributed enterprises.

ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider of networking and communications equipment, with a portfolio of more than 1,700 solutions for use in the last mile of today's telecommunications networks. Widely deployed by carriers and enterprises alike, ADTRAN solutions enable voice, data, video, and Internet communications across a variety of network infrastructures. ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by every major U.S. service provider and many global ones, as well as by thousands of public, private and governmental organizations worldwide.