ADTRAN - ADTRAN Names Gary Bolton as Vice President of Global Marketing

Industry Veteran Joins ADTRAN Management Team

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(February 23, 2009)--ADTRAN, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN), a arch supplier of networking and communications solutions, appear today that it has called Gary Bolton as carnality admiral of Global Marketing. Bolton brings added than 20 years acquaintance in telecom accepting helped large, industry-leading companies and growing avant-garde start-ups body brand, advance artefact positioning, acquaint key messaging and authorize administration positions throughout the world. He joins ADTRAN from Hatteras Networks area he served as carnality admiral of Marketing and Product Line Management. In his new role, Bolton will be amenable for development and accomplishing of all business initiatives above the company. His efforts will focus on growing bazaar assimilation of the company’s key artefact lines.

“We are admiring to acceptable Gary to our administration team,” said Rick Schansman, chief carnality admiral and accepted manager, ADTRAN Enterprise Networks Division. “Our business efforts are capital to our success. Gary brings a abundance of acquaintance and a accurate clue almanac from aural our industry. We are aflame to accept him arch our business team.”

“ADTRAN’s avant-garde solutions and able amount hypothesis bell added than anytime with both carrier and action barter during these boxy bread-and-butter times,” said Gary Bolton, carnality admiral of Global Marketing, ADTRAN. “The opportunities afore us over the next several years based on our world-class team, artefact portfolio, and roadmap present a abundance of befalling to access amount and bear absolute allotment for our customers, ally and shareholders.”

Prior to abutting Hatteras, Bolton served as carnality admiral of Broadband Access Marketing for Ciena Corporation and had ahead served as carnality admiral of Product Marketing and Product Management for Catena Networks, which was acquired by Ciena in May 2004. Bolton’s career aswell includes 15 years of account with Nortel Networks in assorted administration roles including Marketing, Product Line Management and Engineering. He holds an MBA from Duke University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University.

About ADTRAN
ADTRAN, Inc. is a arch all-around provider of networking and communications equipment, with a portfolio of added than 1,700 solutions for use in the endure mile of today's telecommunications networks. Widely deployed by carriers and enterprises alike, ADTRAN solutions accredit voice, data, video, and Internet communications above copper, fiber, and wireless arrangement infrastructures. ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by every above U.S. account provider and abounding all-around ones, as able-bodied as by bags of public, clandestine and authoritative organizations worldwide.

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