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OCNW News Nathan Harrell Named Vice President of Sales for Occam Networks

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Occam Networks Inc. (NASDAQ:OCNW), a leading supplier of innovative Ethernet and IP-based loop carrier equipment to telecommunications companies, announced today that Nathan Harrell has joined the company as vice president of sales.

“Nathan brings to Occam a track record of more than 20 years of generating growth with successful companies such as Redback Networks and Cisco Systems,” said Bob Howard-Anderson, president and CEO for Occam. “Combined with our innovative technology and scalable, highly-reliable products, Nathan will enable Occam to maintain and build on the company’s successes providing Triple Play solutions to telephone companies.”

Prior to joining Occam, Harrell served as vice president of sales, Americas, for Redback Networks, where his team established or increased the installed base of the company’s remote access server and router products at every major carrier in his theatre. Before that, he served in several capacities at Cisco Systems, including operations director/general manager positions for both the Qwest and Sprint accounts and as area director for the Greenfield area with responsibility for all U.S. based cable companies and several other large service providers.

“I look forward to joining an incredible team and applying my experience to help Occam maintain and increase its impressive growth,” said Harrell. “Local operators represent the leading edge of telecommunications innovation, and Occam’s flexible, standards-based approach enables these operators to both leverage their existing network investments as well as cost-effectively offer new services to their subscribers.”

Earlier in his career, Harrell was regional vice president, central area for Telco Systems and prior, served as director of national sales for Sprint, where he managed Sprint’s growth to an industry leadership position in videoconferencing. Harrell began his career at Scientific Atlanta.

About Occam Networks Inc.

Occam Networks' broadband loop carrier (BLC) solutions enable telecommunications and other service providers to offer innovative voice, broadband, IPTV and full Triple Play services over copper or fiber. Occam solutions give telco service providers flexibility and scalability to expand their offerings, with simplicity of service deployment. Occam's BLC products and services are currently deployed at over 180 service providers in North America. For more information, please visit www.occamnetworks.com.

Portions of this press release may contain forward-looking statements regarding future events or the future performance of Occam Networks, including statements predicting increased adoption of products and technologies offered by Occam. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from any future performance suggested in such statements. Rapidly changing technologies and market conditions may require changes to Occam’s products. Occam does not undertake any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Please also refer to the company’s most recent quarterly report on Form 10-Q, annual report on Form 10-K and other filings with the SEC. These filings contain and identify other important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements.

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