Chicago, IL -- Agere Systems (NYSE: AGR) today announced that Ericsson has selected Agere\'s APP300 (Agere\'s Advanced PayloadPlus®) series network processor product offerings.

Agere\'s announcement coincides with this week\'s Globalcomm conference and exhibition (Agere Booth # 63062).

Ericsson, one of the top-ranked vendors worldwide in shipments of IP-DSLAM ports, is using Agere\'s chip technology and associated software in Ericsson\'s newly launched VDSL2 product line. The EDA VDSL2 solution takes fiber to the node deployment to a new level in terms of power efficiency and cost effectiveness for outside plant deployment.

The Agere processors serve a wide range of broadband access applications including key access interfaces such as ADSL2+, VDSL2, GPON, Pseudowire and Voice over Internet Protocol combination cards.

These services are all being deployed in residential and business access, where triple play service delivery continues to rapidly expand. In addition, this solution makes it possible for Agere\'s customers to achieve the industry\'s fastest service velocity, which translates to enabling the fastest development and deployment of new features.

Agere\'s APP300, released early last year, features more than 2 Gigabits per second of high-speed performance, with powerful classification capabilities and high-performance traffic management quality of service.

These features are critical in deployment of services such as Internet protocol TV, public switched telephone network, voice over IP and interactive gaming. These services require attributes that Agere\'s chip delivers such as tiering, real-time high availability, quality sensitivity and low-delay multicasting.

At the heart of this solution is Agere\'s wireline access FPI (functional programming interface) software package, which offers TR-101 standards-compliant data and control plane code. This solution offers a complete set of broadband features that make it possible for customers to focus on delivering \"secret sauce\" features faster to market than competing alternatives.

\"Agere highly values the strategic importance and long-term relationship with Ericsson,\" said Mark Cieri, director of service provider networking in Agere\'s Networking Division. \"Ericsson ranks among the world\'s elite in telecom infrastructure businesses including IP DSLAMs and MSANs, where the leading company has a broad list of established customers. Our access-optimized APP300 devices will ensure Ericsson maintains flexible, scalable and powerful line card solutions today and for future needs.\"

APP300 is part of Agere\'s TrueONE™ intelligent and reliable communication platform solutions and is shipping today.

For more information, customers may visit Agere\'s Web site at 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.

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Agere, Agere Systems, the Agere Systems logo and PayloadPlus are registered trademarks and TrueONE is a trademark of Agere Systems.

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 December 31, 2005. 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.

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AgereSystems - Taiwan Agent- Seraphim
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