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Avanex to Display Broad Lineup of Optical Layer Solutions at OFC 2004

Posted on: Friday, 20 February 2004, 06:00 CST

FREMONT, Calif., Feb. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Avanex Corporation will demonstrate and display solutions for optical communications ranging from ultra-long-haul to enterprise and storage networks during the 2004 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition.

Avanex will display more than 70 products, ranging from its building-block optical modules and components to its most recent advances in integrated subsystem solutions for the optical layer.

Featured active demonstrations at the Avanex booth will be the new PowerNode(TM) Flexible Optical Layer Solution, Avanex's leading low-cost integrated platform, and its new protocol independent PowerPort(TM) 10Gb/s XFP Transceivers for TDM and DWDM applications.

Avanex will be in Booth #1309. OFC 2004 is being held Feb 22-27 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

"Avanex is firmly focused on advancing its leadership in network-ready and network-managed subsystems," Chairman and CEO Walter Alessandrini said. "Our PowerNode platform adds significant flexibility and value by enhancing the network-readiness of our proven solutions for essential optical layer functions such as wavelength multiplexing, wavelength add/drops, amplification and dispersion compensation."

Dr. Giovanni Barbarossa, Avanex's Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Product Development, added, "While we are enthusiastic about the advances we are making to increase levels of integration, and flexibility, we are mindful of continuing to develop and enhance the building blocks that perform fundamental optical layer functions."

Barbarossa said that also prominent among the Avanex solutions on display at OFC will be two innovative Network Managed Subsystems introduced last fall -- the PowerExpress(TM) Network-Ready EDFA and PowerExchanger(TM) Network- Ready OADM. Both can be controlled by the network management system through management protocols such as TL1 and SNMP.

Here is a representative summary of other solutions for the optical layer that will be on display at the Avanex booth during OFC 2004:

-- Transmission: PowerSource(TM) laser modules, PowerSense(TM) receiver

modules, PowerBit(TM) and Power(TM)Log LiNbO3 (Lithium Niobate)

modulators, PowerReach(TM) 300 PIN MSA transponders, PowerPort(TM) XFP

transceivers, and PowerFlex(TM) receivers and transmitters suited to

applications at 2.5, 10 and 40 Gb/s. Solutions are available for TDM

and DWDM applications at short-reach, intermediate-reach and long-

reach distances, in a number of MSA form factors and at 1310 and

1550 nm windows.

-- Amplification: PureGain(TM) fixed-gain and variable-gain Erbium-doped

fiber amplifiers and PowerPure(TM) and PowerDeep(TM) pump laser

modules for terrestrial and submerged applications. The PureGain 2600

Optical Amplifier Series offers the best optical performance in the

industry, and the PureGain(TM) line of amplification solutions

continues to be an industry standard-setter, with more than one

billion operational hours in customer networks.

-- Dispersion Compensation: Fixed and tunable dispersion compensation

modules in the PowerShaper(TM) line, and PowerForm(TM) dispersion

compensation modules for single-mode, LEAF(R) and non-zero dispersion-

shifted fiber.

-- Multiplexing and Signal Processing: Examples from the PowerMux(TM),

PowerFilter(TM) and PowerBragg(TM) families of multiplexers and

multiplexer modules, interleavers, band separators, channel

separators, and gain-flattening filters, all based on either fiber

Bragg grating, thin-film filter or Gires-Tournois etalon technology.

-- Switching and Routing: The PowerExchanger(TM) Fixed and Power-Balanced

OADMs, PowerAttenuator(TM) Variable Optical Attenuator and

PowerFilter(TM) Passive Network Ready Solution.

About Avanex

Avanex Corporation is a leading global provider of Intelligent Photonic Solutions(TM) to meet the needs of fiber optic communications networks for greater capacity, longer distance transmissions, improved connectivity, higher speeds and lower costs. These solutions enable or enhance optical wavelength multiplexing, dispersion compensation, switching and routing, transmission and amplification and include network-managed subsystems. Avanex was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in Fremont, Calif. Avanex also maintains facilities in Erwin Park, N.Y.; Nozay, France; and San Donato, Italy. The facilities also are home to Avanex's Centers of Excellence for specialized research and manufacturing. To learn more about Avanex, visit our Web site at: http://www.avanex.com/ .

Avanex Corporation

CONTACT: Investor Relations, Mark Weinswig, +1-510-897-4344, or fax,+1-510-897-4345, or mark_weinswig@avanex.com, or Media, Tony Florence,+1-510-897-4162, or fax, +1-510-979-0198, or tony_florence@avanex.com, both ofAvanex Corporation

Web site: http://www.avanex.com/

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