Press Release

Voiceglo Chooses CIENA/Laurel Solution to Support Rapidly Growing GloPhone Voice Over IP Service

CIENA/Laurel Multiservice Edge Platforms Key to Innovative Worldwide Voice Service Delivery

June 9, 2004 - Linthicum, Md. and Pittsburgh - CIENA® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN) and Laurel Networks, Inc. today announced that global full-service Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications company Voiceglo (OTCBB:TGLO), has deployed a joint CIENA/Laurel multiservice edge solution to support its rapidly growing GloPhone service. CIENA DN 7100™ multiservice edge switches and Laurel ST200™ service edge routers provide the voice switching, Internet routing and peering, sophisticated quality of service (QoS), subscriber management and interface flexibility required to economically and reliably deliver innovative local, long distance and international GloPhone service to any Internet-enabled computer worldwide.

Voiceglo, a global communications company, offers Web-based home and business phone service to anyone anywhere in the world. Voiceglo customers can use the Internet to make and receive local and long distance calls, using their existing phone number. Voiceglo's flagship product, GloPhone, allows users to make calls directly from their browsers to any telephone in the world. GloPhone Blue, a free product, offers users the ability to make unlimited calls to other GloPhone users at no cost.

"GloPhone delivers crystal-clear calls and value-added features to a rapidly growing user base over any broadband or dial-up Internet connection," said Edward Cespedes, president of Voiceglo. "That rate of service innovation and growth requires an infrastructure with the highest performance and flexibility. Only the CIENA/Laurel solution delivered the rich features needed to tie into softswitches and media gateways, manage our peering agreements, guarantee voice quality and provide service over multiple access networks."

CIENA's DN 7000 series multiservice edge switching platform enables service providers to deliver customized services based on customer demand and service area density at lower price points than any product on the market today. On a single platform, the 7000 series delivers native Frame Relay, ATM, Ethernet, Circuit Emulation Services (CES), and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) functionality. The DN 7000 series allows service providers to protect and expand their current Layer 2 investments and migrate their existing and new services to IP/MPLS-based converged backbones.

Laurel's ST-series service edge routers support all types of high-growth, value-added services including Internet access, transit and peering, MPLS-based Layer 2 and IP VPNs, advanced broadband, voice-over-IP and video in a single platform. Both members of the ST-series service edge router family - the ST50™ and ST200 - maintain wire-speed performance with all services enabled on every port. In contrast, the architectural limitations of other edge platforms cause revenue-impacting performance limitations as service providers attempt to turn on multiple high-bandwidth services to growing numbers of users.

"GloPhone is exactly the type of sophisticated, high-growth service that the DN 7000 series and ST-series platforms were designed to support, and their selection is the latest example of the continuing success of the CIENA/Laurel partnership and product synergy, " said Bob O'Neil, general manager of CIENA's Data Networking Group. "This combined solution is further validation of CIENA's approach to evolving data networks through best-in-class products and partnerships, and CIENA looks forward to continuing to assist Voiceglo in its service growth."

"Innovative providers such as Voiceglo are leading the shift from best-effort bandwidth delivery to sophisticated value-added services," said Steve Vogelsang, vice president of marketing and co-founder, Laurel Networks. "By combining multiservice delivery capabilities with the performance and scale needed to support high-growth, the ST-series and DN 7000 series platforms deliver the features required to support the next generation of advanced services."

About CIENA
CIENA Corporation delivers innovative network solutions to the world's largest service providers, cable operators and enterprises, increasing the cost-efficiency of current services while enabling the creation of new carrier-class data services built upon the existing network infrastructure. Additional information about CIENA can be found at www.ciena.com.

About Laurel Networks
Laurel Networks service edge routers combine Internet class routing, Layer 2 switching and broadband subscriber management with the sophisticated QoS, high availability and integrated management needed to deliver advanced services with non-stop performance. Service providers worldwide have chosen the ST-series platform to profitably deliver next-generation high-growth business and consumer services including value-added Internet, VPNs, switched services, voice-over-IP, video-on-demand and advanced broadband. For more information, visit www.laurelnetworks.com.

About Voiceglo
Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Fla, Voiceglo (www.voiceglo.com) is a global full-service Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications company. Since its inception in 2002, Voiceglo has grown to provide telecommunications service to thousands of customers worldwide. Voiceglo is a subsidiary of theglobe.com (OTCBB:TGLO), founded by Michael S. Egan (founder of Alamo-Rent-a-Car and Certified Vacations) and Edward A. Cespedes, a former investment banker with J.P. Morgan. Voiceglo's strategy is to provide phone numbers to an unlimited number of consumers and business customers - whether free or paid - and for these customers to use their phone number on any Internet-enabled computer anywhere in the world to make local, long distance and international calls. Through its proprietary patent-pending technology, Voiceglo recently launched its award-winning GloPhone product (www.glophone.com), which provides a way for subscribers to call each other while online (i.e. peer-to-peer calling) as well as call and receive calls via traditional landline or wireless phones for free via a broadband or dial-up connection.

Note to Investors
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements based on current expectations, forecasts and assumptions of CIENA (the Company) that involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements in this release, including but not limited to the features and benefits of CIENA's products, are based on information available to the Company as of the date hereof. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those stated or implied in such forward-looking statements, due to risks and uncertainties associated with the Company's business, which include the risk factors disclosed in the Company's Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 20, 2004. Forward looking statements include statements regarding the Company's expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future and can be identified by forward looking words such as "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "should," "will," and "would" or similar words. The Company assumes no obligation to update the information included in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Press Contacts:

CIENA: Aaron Graham or Nicole Anderson
CIENA Corporation
(877) 857-7377
pr@ciena.com

Laurel Networks: Kimberly Booth
Laurel Networks, Inc.
(412) 809-4298
kbooth@laurelnetworks.com

Investor Contacts:

CIENA: Suzanne DuLong or Jessica Towns
CIENA Corporation
(888) 243-6223
ir@ciena.com

Voiceglo: Michele M. Merrell
Voiceglo
(954) 769-5956
mmerrell@voiceglo.com