ADVISORY/Agility Communications Senior Director of Systems Engineering Dr. Rang-Chen Yu to Discuss Widely Tunable Lasers and Transmitters at APOC 2002.

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APOC 2002

ADVISORY...for Thursday-Friday (Oct. 17-18)

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Members of the media are invited to hear Agility Communications Senior Director of Systems Engineering Dr. Rang-Chen Yu present a paper titled "Widely Tunable Lasers: Enabling Efficient and Intelligent Optical Networks" on Thurs., Oct. 17, 9 a.m.- 10 a.m. at the Executive Forum, Asia-Pacific Optical and Wireless Communication Conference (APOC) 2002 at the Shanghai Everbright Convention Center, 66 Cao-Bao Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai. Dr. Yu will also chair a panel discussion regarding optical transmission systems on Fri., Oct. 18, 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Held October 13-18, APOC 2002 is the premier event in the optoelectronics and telecom industry, attracting executives and technologists from around the world to network and discuss the important technology and business issues that will have significant impact on the future of this dynamic industry.

When and Where

Media attending APOC 2002 are invited to hear Agility Communications Senior Director of Systems Engineering Dr. Rang-Chen Yu's presentation on "Widely Tunable Lasers: Enabling Efficient and Intelligent Optical Networks" on Thurs., Oct. 17, 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. Media are also invited to the panel discussion regarding optical transmission systems that Dr. Yu is chairing on Fri., Oct. 18, 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. at the Shanghai Everbright Convention Center, 66 Cao-Bao Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai. For more information about APOC 2002, visit http://spie.org/Conferences/Programs/02/pa/schedule/. For more information about Agility Communications, visit www.agility.com/

Biography for Dr. Rang-Chen Yu, Senior Director, System Engineering, Agility Communications

During his career, Dr. Rang-Chen Yu has enjoyed wide-ranging successes in developing innovative optoelectronics products. Prior to Agility, Dr. Yu was director, optical engineering at Cinta Networks, where he was responsible for optical technology and optical hardware and system engineering for a DWDM transport and switching networking platform based on widely tunable laser technology. Earlier, as product engineering manager at Bandwidth9, Yu was responsible for the early-stage development of a VCSEL-based tunable laser product. He has also held senior engineering and management positions at SDL Inc. (now part of JDSU), where he was responsible for the development of high-speed fiber optical transmitter and receiver modules. Rang-Chen earned his Ph. D. in solid-state physics from University of Pennsylvania, and conducted research at Princeton University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Conductus Inc. Dr. Yu has been granted five patents in high-speed laser and tunable laser-related technology inventions.

About Agility Communications, Inc.

Agility Communications, Inc., the leader in pioneering widely tunable lasers for metro, switching, and long-haul markets, is providing the lowest total cost of ownership and dramatically reducing the costs and complexity of supporting agile networks. The company has been named one of Light Reading's Top 10 Privately Held Companies, won the Technologic Partners' Optix 2001 Investors' Choice award, and was listed in UPSIDE Magazine's "Hot 100" private companies for 2001. Agility has also been highlighted on several "Hot Companies to Watch" lists, including ones in Business Week and Lightwave Magazine.

Founded by a team of optical networking and semiconductor veterans in Oct. 1998, Agility is headquartered in Santa Barbara, Calif., and has manufacturing facilities in Allentown, Penn. Agility investors include Alliance, Amerindo Investment Advisors, CIENA Corp., Comdisco Ventures, Dell Ventures, General Bank, GM Investment Management Corp., Global Strategic, Granite Global Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Mitsubishi International Corp., Morgenthaler Ventures, Mustang Ventures, Nissho Electronics Corp., Nissho Iwai American Corp., Tellabs, U.S. Venture Partners, and Worldview Technology Partners. For more information about Agility solutions, visit www.agility.com, send email to [e-mail], or call 805-690-1700.

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