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OpVista Hires Key Sales Executives to Meet Demand for Company's MetroVista Optical Transport System

Posted on: Monday, 22 September 2003, 06:00 CDT

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 2003--OpVista, Inc., a developer of optical transport systems for the convergence of video, voice, and data services in the cable industry, today announced it has hired a Vice President of Sales for the U.S. western region, and a Vice President of Sales for its U.S. eastern region. These new VPs, having extensive cable and telecommunications experience, are tasked with responding to the strong industry interest in OpVista's MetroVista(TM) optical transport product line and increasing the rate at which the company engages customers.

Judy Donovan, formerly VP of Sales for Aurora Networks and Group VP of Sales for ADC (NASDAQ: ADCT), joins OpVista as Western Regional Vice President of Sales. David DeMio, most recently with Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU), is now OpVista's Eastern Regional Vice President of Sales.

At ADC Donovan managed a highly successful team of 45 across North America, selling transport equipment to telecommunications clients with a specific focus on cable Multiple System Operators (MSOs). Prior to that, she had a distinguished career as a Sales Executive with Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC). Donovan will be based in Denver.

DeMio began his career at AT&T (NYSE: T) Bell Laboratories where he participated in numerous new product introductions. He later joined the Lucent sales organization, focusing on the introduction of new transport products to the industry and leading account teams to key wins with both cable MSOs and telecommunications clients. DeMio will be based in the Greater Boston area.

"With our system now proven in commercial operation, we are accelerating efforts to engage customers. The ability to recruit these industry veterans with their deep knowledge of optical transport and strategic industry experience is indicative of our product value," said Ron Foster, VP of Marketing and Sales for OpVista. "Judy and David will form the core of our growing sales team which will focus on understanding customer needs and responding with world class design assistance, products and service."

OpVista's flagship MetroVista optical transport system is scalable to 800Gbps on a single fiber for up to 1000km without dispersion compensation or regeneration. The product family is fully compliant with International Telecommunications Union (ITU) standards and its carrier-class management system provides capacity addition and remote re-configurability without service disruption.

About OpVista, Inc.

OpVista, Inc., founded in 2000, develops scalable optical transport solutions for the communications industry for the deployment of "anything on demand" services, including video, data, business, and voice. Its flagship MetroVista(TM) system is ideal for service providers seeking to deploy cost-effective, interoperable, high-capacity transport solutions for Video-on-Demand, ATM/SONET replacement, business services, and for integrating video, voice, and data onto a single fiber. OpVista's investors include leading investment firms Sevin Rosen Funds, iNCUBiC, and U.S. Trust. The company maintains its headquarters in Irvine, Calif. More information about OpVista can be found at http://www.opvista.com.

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