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ATIS Board Welcomes Lucent/Bell Labs President Bill O'Shea, Nortel CTO Greg Mumford, Telcordia CEO Matthew Desch

July 14, 2003, Washington, D.C. – ATIS – the leader in communications standards development – is pleased to announce that Bill O’Shea, Greg Mumford and Matthew Desch recently jointed the ATIS board of directors, serving as representatives for Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks and Telcordia Technologies respectively as ATIS accelerates its priority standards work.

O’Shea is president of Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies’ chief technology officer, Mumford is chief technology officer for Nortel Networks, and Desch serves as chief executive officer for Telcordia Technologies.

“ATIS’ strategic initiative to prioritize, coordinate and accelerate standards work continues to gain momentum,” said Susan M. Miller, president and CEO of ATIS. “ The ATIS Technical and Operations (TOPS) Council is in full swing, and the value of what we’re offering resonates with the industry. The addition of our new board members clearly indicates the industry’s strong desire to work the priorities established by the ATIS board.”

ATIS recently announced the addition of Ed Kennedy, president of North America operations and executive vice president for Tellabs, and net.com vice president of strategic initiatives Craig Forbes to the ATIS board of directors.

Over the last 12 months, ATIS has embarked on a new strategic direction led by Ross Ireland, Senior Executive Vice President – Services for SBC, and ATIS Board Chairman. This effort has included the launch of the ATIS Technical and Operations (TOPS) Council, chaired by Bill Smith, Chief Product Development and Technology Officer for BellSouth. The TOPS Council has reached consensus on the industry's 16 most critical priorities, including the five deemed most critical – Voice over IP, Mobile Wireless Services, Wide Area Ethernet, Network Security, and Data Interchange. ATIS has also established Focus Groups as part of this strategic direction to address standardization requirements for the five key industry priorities.

For more information about the ATIS TOPS Council, contact Tim Jeffries at tjeffries@atis.org or visit the ATIS Web site at www.atis.org.

About ATIS

ATIS is a technical planning and standards development organization that is committed to rapidly developing and promoting technical and operations standards for the communications and related information technologies industry worldwide using a pragmatic, flexible and open approach. Over 1,400 participants from more than 400 communications companies are active in ATIS’ 16 industry committees, and its Incubator Solutions Program. www.atis.org

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