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Avanex(R) Announces Extension of Oasis(TM) Digital Control Architecture to Subsystem Products

Posted on: Wednesday, 27 February 2008, 12:00 CST

Avanex Corporation (NASDAQ:AVNX), a pioneering provider of intelligent photonic solutions enabling next-generation optical networks, announced today at the OFC/NFOEC 2008 Expo that it has started volume shipments of subsystems based on its Oasis digital control architecture.

Avanex Modules and Subsystems General Manager Richard Smart said, "Our customers need to dramatically lower their costs and time-to-market. The software and firmware tools that we have developed for the digital control fabric of our Oasis amplifier are now being used to integrate and manage the optical functions of the regeneration and ROADM node in a cost effective manner. We're moving away from extensive optical and electronic design into software configuration of platforms to meet customer specifications. Our ability to move the telecom design challenge into the software domain is giving a much shorter development cycle than has previously been achieved. We have already integrated performance monitoring and service channel transceiver functionality to our amplifiers and will move next to integrating tunable dispersion compensation and wavelength routing."

Avanex Senior Vice President of Sales Scott Parker commented, "Through Oasis, we deliver lower cost, compact, and thermally-efficient products which allow our customers to increase the traffic capacity in their central offices efficiently. We are also very excited by the many new opportunities we are currently discussing where the capability of our digital architecture to cost-effectively integrate amplification, tunable dispersion compensation, wavelength routing and performance monitoring offer a compelling and differentiated solution."

The subsystem EDFA/OPM line card will be on display at Avanex Booth 1734, Hall C, along with the industry leading Oasis PureGain™1600, 2800 and 3000 EDFAs.

About Avanex

Avanex Corporation meets the needs of fiber optic communications networks for greater capacity, longer distance transmissions, improved connectivity, higher speeds and lower costs. Our solutions enable optical wavelength multiplexing, dispersion compensation, switching and routing, transmission, and amplification, and include network-managed subsystems. Avanex Corporation, incorporated in 1997, is headquartered in Fremont, California, and maintains facilities in New York, Florida, China, France, Italy, and Thailand. To learn more about Avanex Corporation, visit our Web site at: www.avanex.com.

Source: Business Wire

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