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ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania and DUBLIN, Ireland, 25 August 2003 -- Agere Systems (NYSE: AGR.A, AGR.B) today announced that it has acquired Massana Ltd., a privately held developer of Gigabit Ethernet-over-copper physical layer device (PHY) technologies. With this acquisition, Agere expects to quickly deliver industry-leading Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) chips to address the transition of enterprise networks from Fast Ethernet to Gigabit Ethernet speeds.

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