Westell Technologies Adds New Vice President of Engineering

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    AURORA, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2005--Westell Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:WSTL), a leading provider of broadband/DSL access products, gateways and conferencing services, announced the appointment of Chris Shaver as Vice President of Engineering. The appointment is effective today.
    Along with Paul Harrington, Vice President of Development for Westell, Shaver will contribute to the development capabilities and engineering discipline within Westell supporting its growing product lines. He will have responsibility for Westell's Verizon One(TM) development activities as well as expanding the system engineering and system integration and verification functions for all products. Both gentlemen will report to Bill Noll, Sr. VP of Engineering and CTO.
    Shaver is the former Vice President of Engineering for Copper Mountain Networks, San Diego, CA. His career includes engineering positions with AT&E Laboratories and ADC Kentrox as well as serving as co-founder of a company that successfully launched a next generation carrier class ATM switch for voice and data. While at ADC Kentrox, Shaver held the position of General Manager of the Enterprise Access Division. Shaver earned an Electrical Engineering Degree from Cornell University.
    "Chris's nearly 20 years of engineering and business management skills and experience will be an asset at Westell as we develop and launch increasingly complex products," Bill Noll said. "His excellent technical skills and experience will serve to further strengthen our engineering capability," Noll said.
    "I am excited to be joining a company with Westell's position and potential, and am eager to begin contributing as soon as possible," Shaver said.

    About Westell

    Westell Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: WSTL) headquartered in Aurora, Illinois is a Tier-1 provider of intelligent, carrier-class broadband access products, manufactured using a TL9000 registered quality management system. Westell offers high-speed broadband/DSL, VoIP and legacy network technology products for carriers, service providers and business enterprises around the world. ConferencePlus, a Westell subsidiary, offers conferencing services including voice, video, and IP data conferencing, to carriers and multi-national corporations throughout the world. For more information visit www.westell.com.
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    Certain statements contained herein including, without limitation, statements containing the words "believe," " on track, " "anticipate," "committed" "expect," "estimate", "await," "continue," "intend," "may," "will," "should," and similar expressions are forward looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These risks include, but are not limited to, product demand and market acceptance risks, need for financing, the economic downturn in the U.S. economy and telecom market, the impact of competitive products or technologies, competitive pricing pressures, product development, excess and obsolete inventory due to new product development, commercialization and technological delays or difficulties (including delays or difficulties in developing, producing, testing and selling new products and technologies), the effect of Westell's accounting policies, the need for additional capital, the effect of economic conditions and trade, legal social and economic risks (such as import, licensing and trade restrictions) and other risks more fully described in Westell's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 under the section "Risk Factors". Westell undertakes no obligation to release publicly the result of any revisions to these forward looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

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