Ikanos Communications' Director of Industry Standards Elected to Broadband Forum Board

FREMONT, CA, Mar 24 (MARKET WIRE) --
Ikanos Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: IKAN), a leading provider of
broadband semiconductor and software products for the digital home, and
Broadband Forum today announced the election of Edward Eckert, director
of industry standards at Ikanos, to Broadband Forum's Board of Directors.
Ikanos is recognized as one of the leaders in xDSL, and the election of
Eckert will enable the company to further contribute to the development
of industry requirements for technologies that advance broadband services
worldwide.

In addition to the board position, Eckert will remain as editor and
subject matter expert in the Broadband Forum's Testing and
Interoperability Working Group -- the group responsible for the
definition and publication of the test plans and performance criteria for
DSL and digital home systems. Ikanos also will continue its activities in
the Broadband Forum's BroadbandHome(TM) Working Group, which is tasked to
provide the industry with technical specifications that define the
devices in the digital home, and ease the deployment and management of
broadband services.

"Ikanos has played an integral role in advancing and promoting the
standards that enable the broadband market," said Robin Mersh, chief
operating officer of Broadband Forum. "Thanks to these efforts, the
Broadband Forum has been able to deliver technologies and the testing and
interoperability programs necessary to enable broad adoption and
implementation of high-speed network access around the world."

Ikanos provides leadership and technical contributions to standards
organizations, including the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry
Solutions (ATIS), the European Telecommunications Standards Institute
(ETSI), the Full Service Access Network (FSAN) Group, the Home Gateway
Initiative (HGI), HomeGrid Forum and the International Telecommunication
Union's Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T), in addition to
the Broadband Forum.

Ikanos was the first to offer discrete multi-tone (DMT)-based VDSL
technology that is now the international standard in the second-generation
of very high bitrate digital subscriber line (VDSL2) data transmission
technology.

About Ikanos Communications, Inc.

Ikanos Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: IKAN) is a leading provider of
advanced broadband semiconductor and software products for the digital
home. The company's multi-mode VDSL2/ADSLx, network processor and other
offerings power access infrastructure and customer premises equipment for
many of the world's leading network equipment manufacturers and
telecommunications service providers. For more information, visit
www.ikanos.com.

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Contacts:
Susan Lehman
Rockpoint Public Relations
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Margo Westfall
Ikanos Communications
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