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Tellabs Presentations at Citi and Kaufman to be Webcast Live

Citi's 18th Annual Global Technology Conference in New York City, on Sept. 7 at 11:20 a.m. Eastern Time. Kaufman Bros 14th Annual Investor Conference in New York City, on Sept. 7 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time.

Interested investors can access live audio webcasts of the presentations at www.tellabs.com/investors . On-demand replays of the webcasts will be available starting 24 hours after each presentation and will be archived for 30 days.

About Tellabs — Tellabs innovations enable the mobile Internet and help our customers succeed. That's why 43 of the top 50 global communications service providers choose our mobile, optical, business and services solutions. We help them get ahead by adding revenue, reducing expenses and optimizing networks.

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 the Maplecroft Climate Innovation Index, FTSE4Good and eight FTSE KLD indexes. http://www.tellabs.com

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Socially Responsible Investing: The Next New Thing is Already Here ...

April 24, 2008

SRI's Moment

I've been deeply involved with socially responsible investing – SRI – since 1983. Three times since then I've heard, "SRI's time is here!"

I heard it first in the late 1980s, following the South Africa divestment legislation and the Exxon Valdez disaster. SRI grew, but not exuberantly.

Again, I heard it following Enron and the dot-com bust. SRI continued to grow, but not exponentially.

Now financial services experts are saying SRI's time is here, in the wake of the credit crisis. This time, they're right.

The reasons why SRI has arrived will have an impact on your business across the board – not just the business you're doing or might do with SRI clients. And that's what I'm going to talk about this afternoon – the changing environment's impact on you.

KLD & Its Clients

KLD provides advisors, managers and institutional investors with SRI research, benchmarks and compliance products. SRI is all we've ever done, all we'll ever do.

In 2005, we invoiced 250 clients. In 2007, 476. We crossed 500 a month ago. Why are those numbers significant to you?

"Old" & "New" SRI

Since KLD's founding in 1988, our client base has been advisors and money managers. Starting in 2004, we began to see new types of clients with different approaches to SRI from those of our traditional clients. Both categories of client hold importance for you.

Before I go any further, I want to say something about "old" and "new." These words imply values. "New" is better than "old" – except of course when "old" is better than "new." They really don't make it like they used to; one's reaction is either "too bad" or "thank God!"

"Old" and "new" are especially unhelpful in talking about SRI. What's new in SRI is that large institutional investors are entering the field. "New SRI" is an approach suitable for these mega-institutions.

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