FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 19, 2008

Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) Announces Election, Reconfirmation of Board Members

Graybar and Sumitomo Electric Lightwave Executives Join Distinguished Technology Leaders

Arlington, Va. – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leader in advocacy, standards development, business development and intelligence for the information, communications and technology (ICT) industry, today announced the election to its Board of Michael C. Dumas, Vice President, Comm/Data Business, Graybar; and Fred McDuffee, President & COO, Sumitomo Electric Lightwave. Charlie Fox, General Manager, Tyco and Carlos Munoz, CEO, Cam Communications, were confirmed for their second terms as Board Members. The elections took place at the TIA Board meeting held March 2-3, 2008, in Tahoe, Nev.

Dumas is a 21-year career veteran with Graybar, a leading distributor of high quality electrical, telecommunications and networking products and related supply chain management and logistics services. Prior to becoming Vice President, Comm/Data Business in 2005, he held a variety of management positions at the company, including: Treasury Manager - Corporate Accounts; Vice President, Electrical Sales - St. Louis District; and Vice President, Corporate Accounts. He holds a B.S. degree in General Business Administration from Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas.

Prior to becoming President of Sumitomo Electric Lightwave, a leading developer and manufacturer of fiber optic cable, McDuffee served for six years as Senior Vice President in charge of manufacturing, product engineering and marketing for the company's Research Triangle Park and Whiteville North Carolina facilities. He has held various management positions at the company. He holds a B.S. degree in Physics from Virginia Tech.

Recently, TIA was proud to announce that its Chairman of the Board, Robert W. Pullen, has assumed the roles of Chief Executive Officer, President and Director at Tellabs.

TIA's Board of Directors includes senior-level executives from ACS, ADC, ADTRAN, Alcatel-Lucent, ANDA Networks, ArrayComm, AttivaCorp, Avaya, Bechtel Communications, Inc., Cam Communications, Cisco Systems, Corning Incorporated, Ericsson, Inc., Graybar, Henkels & McCoy, Intel Corporation, LGE, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel, OneChip Photonics Inc., OnSite Systems, Panasonic Computer Solutions Co., QUALCOMM, Research In Motion, Sumitomo Electric, Lightwave Corporation, Telcordia Technologies, Tellabs, Tyco Electronics, Ulticom, Inc., Westell Technologies, Inc. and Zebra Technologies Corporation. Advisors to the Board include FAL Associates, ILS Technology and Orca Systems.

 

About TIA
The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) represents the global information and communications technology (ICT) industries through standards development, advocacy, business opportunities, market intelligence and world-wide environmental regulatory compliance. With support from its 600 members, TIA enhances the business environment for thousands of companies whose focus is broadband development and deployment (including wireless and landline infrastructure and services), information technology (IT) for commercial or residential application, Internet Protocol (IP) hardware, software and content solutions, and the convergence of voice, video and data applications and evolution.

TIA co-owns NXTcomm, the tradeshow serving the ICT industry; is ANSI-accredited; serves as the secretariat for 3GPP2; holds a Board position on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) TELECOM Board; and hosts the USA pavilions in ITU trade fairs worldwide. More than 1,000 engineers, lawyers and other industry leaders participate in TIA's 70+ standards committees and TIA has produced more than 1,150 standards documents. Hundreds of experts participate in TIA's government affairs initiatives, which include advancing global broadband deployment across wireline, wireless and cable platforms; advocating advanced spectrum management; encouraging policies to enable information access for persons with disabilities; seeking allocation of additional spectrum to advance wireless services and public safety; facilitating market opportunities by promoting full, fair and open trade and competition in international markets; and ensuring that the U.S. communications sector continues to be a leader in advanced research. TIA's EIATRACK subscription-based web service, on the Web at www.eiatrack.com, enables companies to determine up-to-date information on environmental compliance of their products in various regions around the world.

TIA membership enhances the ability of companies to prepare for the future of communications. TIA brings people and businesses together by helping the industry overcome technical and political barriers to communications. Visit www.tiaonline.org for details.

 

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