Exhibit 99.5
For immediate release

               Acterna Corporation Certifies Financial Statements

Germantown, MD - August 14, 2002 - Acterna Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTR) today
filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sworn statements from its
CEO, Ned Lautenbach, and CFO, John Ratliff, attesting to the accuracy of its
financial reports and other SEC filings.

Acterna's filing fully complies with the SEC's June 27 order requiring more than
900 of the nation's largest publicly traded companies to certify their
accounting practices and most recent financial reports. Acterna announced its
2002 fiscal year-end results on May 29, 2002, and reported its first quarter
results for fiscal year 2003 on July 31, 2002. The Company filed its Form 10-Q
for its first fiscal quarter of 2003 and the certifications of the 10-Q by
Messrs. Lautenbach and Ratliff pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (18
United States Code ss. 1350), with the SEC today.

About Acterna Corporation

Based in Germantown, Maryland, Acterna Corporation is the holding company for
Acterna, , da Vinci Systems and Itronix. Acterna is the world's second largest
communications test and management company. The company offers instruments,
systems, software and services used by service providers, equipment
manufacturers and enterprise users to test and optimize performance of their
optical transport, access, cable, data/IP and wireless networks and services. da
Vinci Systems designs and markets video color correction systems to the video
postproduction industry. Itronix sells ruggedized computing devices for field
service applications to a range of industries. Additional information on Acterna
is available at http://www.acterna.com.
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Contacts:

Investor Contact: Maria Henry, Acterna Corporation, 301-353-1550, x1207
Media Contact: Jim Monroe, Acterna Corporation, 301-353-1550, x4366