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PXIT to Provide Picolight With Opto-Electronic Test and Measurement Equipment

Posted on: Wednesday, 22 September 2004, 06:00 CDT

LEXINGTON, Mass., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- PXIT Inc., a leading manufacturer of high performance opto-electronic test and measurement equipment, announced today that its transmission test instruments will be deployed in Picolight's production of multi-gigabit SFP transceivers for enterprise, storage, access and metropolitan fiber system OEMs. PXIT's Digital Communications Analyzers (DCA's) and Bit Error Rate Testers (BERT's) will be utilized by Picolight in optimizing its latest range of multi-gigabit transceivers. When installed in networks, Picolight's transceivers solve the complex problem of converting transmitting and receiving digital data to and from optical fibers.

"PXIT's instruments uniquely address our needs for a test solution designed for volume manufacturing of optical communications modules," said Picolight Test Engineering Manager, Paul Brusenbach. "PXIT provided us with a cost-effective, testing solution that has a small footprint and can handle our intense throughput requirements."

"Our products, which are based on the PXI open industry standard, provide manufacturers of single fiber pigtails and XFP's with an entirely new option for testing their components," said Fadi Daou Chief Technology Officer of PXIT. "In terms of capital cost and throughput, Picolight is getting the best component test instrumentation available in the market today."

About Picolight Inc.

Picolight is a rapidly growing private company that designs and manufactures high-speed opto-electronic sub-components and fiber optic transceivers. Picolight products are found in 1 to 10 gigabit per second enterprise and storage network systems, inside high performance networking and computing systems, and in rapidly growing access networks. The products power fiber optic links from one meter to well over twenty kilometers. Picolight is located in Boulder, Colorado and employs a staff of 100. For more information, see http://www.picolight.com/ or email sales@picolight.com

About PXIT Inc. (http://www.PXIT.com)

Based in Lexington, Massachusetts, PXIT manufactures high performance optical and electrical PXI modules used to test a wide range of photonic components in the telecommunications, data communications and lighting markets. PXIT was formed through the merger of Tsunami Photonics Ltd and PX Instrument Technology in May 2003. The Company also offers complete test and measurement solutions (instrumentation & software) to manufacturers of laser diode, LED and PLC components. PXIT Inc. is a subsidiary of PXIT, Dublin, Ireland which manufactures a range of test instruments for manufacturers of optical and high speed electrical components and modules.

Contact: David Gerzof, 617.233.5001, dgerzof@beabigfish.com

PXIT Inc.

CONTACT: David Gerzof for PXIT Inc., +1-617-233-5001,dgerzof@beabigfish.com

Web site: http://www.picolight.com/http://www.pxit.com/

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