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Date: 8th August 2005
Title: Transmode Announces Winners of Value Added Reseller Awards

Telindus Arche and Trigon win Transmode Value Added Reseller Awards for Most Successful VAR and Most Aggressive VAR at Transmode's VAR Conference in Monte Carlo

During Transmode's recent Value Added Reseller Conference held in Monte Carlo Transmode announced the winners of their inaugural VAR Awards. The two awards were for Most Successful VAR based on revenue shipped in 2004 and for the Most Aggressive VAR for the VAR which positioned Transmode products in the highest number of applications and won the highest number of new customers in 2004.

With approximately 1.6 Million Euros in revenue during 2004, Telindus Arche won the Most Successful VAR award. Telindus Arche is the leading French network integrator and is part of the Telindus group.

"We are immensely pleased to have won this award, as this validates our position as a leading reseller for Transmode and leading provider of optical solutions in the French Market," said Paul Molinier, Chief Executive Officer at Telindus Arche. "Transmode's optical networking products are a great fit for our portfolio of products and as such we look forward to many years of mutually successful business in France."

Trigon of Switzerland won the award of the Most Aggressive VAR by winning a total of 8 new customers in 2004 for Transmode's CWDM based metro optical networking solutions. Trigon addresses a wide customer base in Switzerland and this is shown by the variety of end customers which addressed industries such as media, banking, insurance, precision engineering (watch making), chocolate production and real estate and also included an ISP and a university showing the huge breadth of applications for metro WDM.

"This award is further evidence of the excellent working relationship and results achieved from the Transmode partnership," said Rinaldo Zanella, General Manager at Trigon. "The huge variety of applications for metro WDM in Switzerland represents an excellent opportunity for Trigon to continue to expand our operations and we are continuing to generate many more new WDM opportunities in 2005."

Both winners received a trophy and some fine wines from Transmode's CEO Isaac Olasoko during the VAR conference which was held to update the Transmode VAR network on recent product and company news.

"Our VAR network is an important part of Transmode's market strategy and I welcome the opportunity to recognize these VARs for their fantastic results in 2004," said Isaac Olasoko, Chief Executive Officer at Transmode. "The new bigger Transmode has a significantly wider product portfolio to take to market and we hope that Telindus Arche, Trigon and all our other VARs will have great success in all their respective markets in 2005 with the Transmode optical networking portfolio."

About Telindus Arche
The Telindus group is a leading European actor for network and security services. Further to its acquisition by Telindus on June 30, 2005, Arche forms with the French subsidiary of Telindus a new entity, Telindus Arche, with a turnover of 160 million Euros and a staff of 600 people. Telindus Arche designs, optimises, implements, manages and secures corporate data networks. Telindus Arche has a broad experience in complex and critical network implementation, acquired thanks to strong network competencies in complementary network security and network management. More information is available on : www.arche.fr

About Trigon
AG TRIGON (www.trigon.ch), a privately held company founded in 1996, focuses on the telecom and datacom markets in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. TRIGON is strong in telecom business and has a large customer base in the medical, financial, insurance, pharmaceutical, educational, carrier, and governmental markets. TRIGON is an innovative provider of optical, wireless and copper based solutions for LAN and WAN applications. Supported by world class vendors, TRIGON is offering planning, realization, support and maintenance for communications networks.

About Transmode
Transmode is a powerful new global force in Optical Networking. The company was formed when two of Europe's most successful private telecoms companies, Transmode Systems and Lumentis, merged in March 2005 to address renewed worldwide demand for scalable, reliable and low-cost Optical Networking solutions.

Transmode is a Pioneer in Optical Networking. Innovations such intelligent WDM (iWDM), which dramatically lowers operational cost, and unamplified DWDM, which reduces network CAPEX and complexity, have contributed to success at a global level, with a customer base of more than 100 network operators, service providers, enterprises and public institutions across Europe, the Americas and Asia.

Transmode is the only company with the full spectrum of Optical Networking solutions based on WDM, designed to cater for the needs of Network Operators and Enterprises alike without compromising on functionality or cost-efficiency. Transmode's product portfolio addresses Optical Networking requirements from regional networks, through metro core and access networks, all the way down to the customer premises.

For more information about Transmode, please visit http://www.transmode.com

For further information please contact:
Michael Crossey
VP Marketing & Business Development
Transmode Systems AB
michael.crossey@transmode.se
Tel: +44 7734 318210

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