ADC Forms Advanced Fiber Optic Integration Center.Business Editors MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 29, 2000 Center Will Integrate ADC's Vast Array of Fiber Optic Products for Customer-Specific Applications ADC (1) See A/D converter. (2) (Apple Display Connector) A peripheral connector from Apple that combines digital video display, USB and power in one cable. (Nasdaq: ADCT ADCT Adaptive Discrete Cosine Transform ; www.adc.com), a leading global supplier of network equipment, software and integration services for broadband, multiservice networks, today announced it has formed the Advanced Photonics Integration Center, which will develop customized, integrated and fully-packaged photonics solutions for ADC's customers, including original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The center, based in ADC's headquarters in Minneapolis, will draw on the company's vast human and technological resources in the broad area of fiber optics fiber optics, transmission of digitized messages or information by light pulses along hair-thin glass fibers. Each fiber is surrounded by a cladding having a high index of refractance so that the light is internally reflected and travels the length of the fiber , especially within the specialized field of optical components, or photonics. A core team of engineers and product managers has already been established, and the Center should grow to 40 to 50 team members within the next year. ADC has research and development/production facilities for passive and active optical components in Minnesota, New Jersey, Sweden, Denmark and Australia, as well as other ADC manufacturing facilities throughout the world. ADC intends to leverage its expertise in photonics via the Advanced Photonics Integration Center to become one of the leading global suppliers of fiber-optic solutions for manufacturers of telecommunications systems. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. telecommunications market research firm Ryan Hankin Kent, Inc. optical components should experience an annualized annualized Of or relating to a variable that has been mathematically converted to a yearly rate. Inflation and interest rates are generally annualized since it is on this basis that these two variables are ordinarily stated and compared. growth rate of 50% through 2003, reaching $7.0 billion. The forecast provides detail on the growth opportunities for optical components that make up DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing systems, specifically, 2.5 Gbps and 10 Gbps sources, modulators, receivers, wavelength division multiplexers, and 980nm and 1480nm pump laser A laser used as the pump for an optical amplifier or other laser. See EDFA and laser. modules. "With five fiber-optic acquisitions in the last six years, including the purchases of Altitun and IBSEN Micro Structures in 2000, ADC has the critical mass to provide a broad range of active and passive optical components and modules and to develop innovative photonic technologies in-house," said Rick Masloski, Vice President and General Manager of ADC's Fiber Optics Division, who is overseeing the Advanced Photonics Integration Center initiative. "We believe the Center will leverage our strengths in innovative optical technologies and manufacturing processes." Martin Nyman, director of the Advanced Photonics Integration Center added, "Our focus will be to package client-specific photonics solutions, enabling our OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers to better meet the dynamic needs of the marketplace in a more sophisticated, cost-effective and timely fashion." ADC has been manufacturing products for fiber optic applications since 1985, and has a market-leading position in fiber cable management systems, fiber raceways, connectors, adapters and couplers. ADC's proprietary processes for automated coupler Refers to a myriad of different types of sockets for plugging in electric or electronic cables or devices. See network coupler. manufacturing are a key factor in the success of that industry-leading product. In March, ADC released its first active optical component, a 980nm pump laser diode and module, and sales and product performance have exceeded projections. ADC is also a leading global supplier of such other optical components as splitters, isolators, collimators, wavelength division multiplexers (WDMs) and dense WDMs, ADC has recently expanded into tunable lasers (through its acquisition of Altitun), and is incorporating other key technologies, such as Phase masks and fiber Bragg gratings (from the IBSEN Micro Structures acquisition), as well as optical MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems) Tiny mechanical devices that are built onto semiconductor chips and are measured in micrometers. In the research labs since the 1980s, MEMS devices began to materialize as commercial products in the mid-1990s. capabilities, into new passive and active components and modules. About ADC Fiber Optics ADC's Fiber Optics Division, part of ADC's largest business unit, the Broadband Connectivity Group, has achieved triple-digit growth, with 2000 sales running at an annual run rate of about $500 million. ADC is aggressively pursuing its goal of becoming one of the leading global suppliers of fiber-optic solutions for OEMs of telecommunications systems, by combining best of breed technologies with expertise in manufacturing optical components. About ADC ADC is The Broadband Company(TM). ADC's network equipment, software and integration services make broadband communications a reality worldwide by enabling communications service providers to deliver high-speed Internet See broadband. , data, video and voice services to homes and businesses. ADC (Nasdaq: ADCT) has annual sales of over $2.8 billion and employs more than 20,900 people worldwide. ADC's stock is included in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index and the Nasdaq-100 Index. Learn more about ADC Telecommunications ADC Telecommunications (NASDAQ: ADCT) is a communications company located in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, a southwest suburb of Minneapolis. History In 1935, Ralph Allison founded ADC Telecommunications in the basement of his south Minneapolis home, inventing ADC's very , Inc. at www.adc.com. |
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