FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 1, 2009

Tellabs' stockholders re-elect Class II directors

Naperville, Ill. — At Tellabs' annual stockholders meeting today, stockholders re-elected current directors Bo Hedfors, Michael E. Lavin and Jan H. Suwinski to the Tellabs Board of Directors for three-year terms. Stockholders also ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as Tellabs' independent auditors for 2009.

To view biographies of the Tellabs Board of Directors, please visit www.tellabs.com/about/bios/directors.shtml.

About Tellabs — Tellabs advances telecommunications networks to meet the evolving needs of users. Solutions from Tellabs enable service providers to deliver high-quality voice, video and data services over wireline and wireless networks around the world. Tellabs (NASDAQ: TLAB) is part of the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Ocean Tomo 300™ Patent Index, the S&P 500 and several corporate responsibility indexes including FTSE4Good and eight KLD indexes. www.tellabs.com
 

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