ADVISORY/Agility to Participate in Panel Discussion of Tunable Lasers During Electronicast Product Showcase At OFC Convention in Anaheim March 21.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers ADVISORY ... for Wednesday (March 21) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Media are invited to hear Kevin Affolter, director of marketing for Agility Communications(TM), Inc., participate in a panel of industry experts in a discussion of tunable laser A laser that can change its frequency over a given range. In time, tunable lasers are expected to be capable of switching frequencies on a packet by packet basis. technology at the ElectroniCast Product Showcase, Wed., March 21, 2001 at the Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim Convention Center is a major convention center in Anaheim, California. It is located across from the Disneyland Resort on Katella Avenue. Much of the Anaheim Convention Center has been renovated in recent years with state-of-the-art facilities. . The product showcase panel discussion will be held in conjunction with the OFC OFC Office OFC Officer OFC Of Course OFC Oxygen Free Copper OFC Oceania Football Confederation (soccer) OFC Optical Fiber Cable OFC Optical Fiber Communications OFC Optical Fiber Conference Convention, March 17-22, 2001, in Anaheim, Calif. The panel will be moderated by Stephen Montgomery, president of ElectroniCast. Founded in 1981, ElectroniCast is a world leader in forecasting for the fiber optic, optoelectronic, and photonic industries. The panel, in addition to Affolter, includes representatives from 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 , IOLON, and New Focus. Panelists will discuss the need for tunable lasers and technical applications. The panel will discuss some of the important customer issues concerning tunable lasers and how their respective companies are meeting customer demands. When and Where Media attending OFC are invited to the ElectroniCast product showcase discussion on Wed., March 21, 2001, at 11 a.m. in Room 231A, at the Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, Calif. The discussion will last approximately 30 minutes. For more information about ElectroniCast visit www.electronicast.com. Biography for Kevin Affolter, Agility Director of Marketing As Agility director of marketing, Kevin Affolter has more than 14 years of experience in high-technology industries, including six years of research on integrated circuit process and device development, and three years of laser diode product development. Before joining Agility, Affolter was a brand manager of optical amplifiers at Nortel Networks in the Optical Networks division. He was responsible for the profitable growth of a new product line incorporating optical amplifiers, dispersion compensation modules, and 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 couplers. Affolter holds a bachelor's degree with honors in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Queens University of Belfast. About Agility Communications, Inc. Agility Communications, Inc., is pioneering breakthrough optical networking infrastructure solutions that dramatically reduce the costs and complexity of supporting agile networks. Developed for Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing See WDM. (DWDM) networks, Agility's first products, high-power, widely tunable lasers, will help communications providers to increase network capacity, maximize existing network resources, streamline the planning process for network growth, and dynamically provision bandwidth. Industry analysts from RHK RHK Ratahallintokeskus (Finnish: Finnish Rail Administration) RHK Ryan Hankin Kent (RHK, Inc. marketing consulting firm) RHK Rigshospitalets Kollegium (Copenhagen, Denmark dorm) expect the global optical networking industry to top $41 billion by 2003. Light Reading has recently selected Agility as one of the hottest IPO (Initial Public Offering) The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of computer companies have found this acronym more exciting than any tech term they ever heard. prospects in optical networking, placing it on their Top 10 Privately Held Companies privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. list. At the Technologic Partners' Optix 2001 conference Agility received the Investor's Choice award being chosen one of 10 private optical communications companies most likely to succeed as a public company. Founded by a team of optical networking veterans in Oct. 1998, Agility is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara is a city in California, United States. It is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 92,325. and has manufacturing facilities in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Agility investors include Amerindo Investment Advisors, Berkeley International Capital Ltd., Comdisco Ventures, Dell Ventures, Hammer Capital Management, Inc., Milton Chang, Meritech Capital Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Mustang Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners, and Worldview world·view n. In both senses also called Weltanschauung. 1. The overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world. 2. A collection of beliefs about life and the universe held by an individual or a group. Technology Partners. For more information about Agility solutions visit, www.agility.com, send email to info@agility.com, or call 805/690-1700. Note to Editors: Agility Communications and the Agility logo are trademarks of Agility Communications, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other company and product names mentioned are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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