No More Hiding Inside the Walls: SYSTIMAX® Solutions Puts Cabling Products on Display in New Executive Briefing Center

200 VARs take the first tour of new center
January 18, 2005 RICHARDSON, Texas

SYSTIMAX Solutions, the worldwide leader in structured connectivity solutions and services for businesses, has put its high-speed cabling solutions on display in the new Executive Briefing Center. The center, which opened Jan. 13 at the SYSTIMAX Solutions headquarters building in the Telecom Corridor® of Richardson, Texas, offers visitors from around the world the opportunity to see and interact with virtually all of the products available from SYSTIMAX Solutions. On opening day, the company organized facility tours and technology demos for more than 200 of its value-added resellers.

Among the many solutions available for review are the new GigaSPEED® X10D solution, the company's highly anticipated and recently released 10 Gigabit Ethernet cabling solution. Also on display in the Executive Briefing Center, which contains a theater room and hot desk interactive area, are SYSTIMAX Solutions' other cabling offerings. The center includes displays and demos for SYSTIMAX’s copper offerings, including the PowerSUM solution, GigaSPEED® XL and X10D solutions, the VisiPatchsolution and the iPatch® System, as well as a fiber section that includes the InstaPATCHSystem and the LazrSPEED®, OptiSPEED® and TerSPEEDsolutions. There also is a building automation systems demo. Customers will be able to connect wirelessly within the Executive Briefing Center via the SYSTIMAX AirSPEEDSolution.

“The Executive Briefing Center serves as an excellent location for customers, prospects and VARs to see these solutions in action,” said Luc Adriaenssens, vice president, R&D and Technology, SYSTIMAX Solutions. “In most implementations, these solutions are hidden inside the walls or locked in a telecom closet, but the Executive Briefing Center brings them out into the light and puts them on center stage for everyone to see.”

About SYSTIMAX Solutions

SYSTIMAX Solutions, a CommScope company (NYSE: CTV), is a worldwide leader in structured cabling systems and provides integrated end-to-end connectivity solutions for voice, data, video and building management applications in both wired and wireless enterprise networks.

SYSTIMAX Solutions supplies its high performance and market-leading range of products through a network of highly skilled BusinessPartners. The product range includes the copper based GigaSPEED X10D and GigaSPEED XL Solutions, the fiber-optic LazrSPEED and TeraSPEED Solutions and the intelligent patching iPatch System. The SYSTIMAX AirSPEED Solution adds a wireless option to the portfolio. SYSTIMAX Labs and the people who have spearheaded these innovations will continue to play an integral role in the future success of SYSTIMAX Solutions. Currently the company’s BusinessPartners install an average of over 1,000 miles (1,600km) of SYSTIMAX cable every day in more than 120 countries worldwide. For further information please visit www.systimax.com.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release includes forward-looking statements that are based on information currently available to management, management’s beliefs, as well as on a number of assumptions concerning future events. Forward-looking statements are not a guarantee of performance and are subject to a number of uncertainties and other factors, which could cause the actual results to differ materially from those currently expected. For a more detailed description of the factors that could cause such a difference, please see CommScope’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In providing forward-looking statements, the company does not intend, and is not undertaking any obligation or duty, to update these statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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