Agility Communications Announces Industry's First Universal Transponder for Switching, Metro and Long-Haul Markets.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 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 2003 Booth #4232 SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 2003 Tunable Laser Leader Enters Transponder Market with Small, MSA (Metropolitan Service Area) An urban area with at least 50,000 people plus surrounding counties. There are 306 MSAs and 428 RSAs (rural service areas) in the U.S. MSAs and RSAs are used to allocate cellular licenses. Footprint Product for Full Band Coverage Agility Communications, Inc., the award-winning manufacturer of widely tunable components for metro, switching, and long-haul markets, today announced the industry's first universal transponder, the Agility(TM) 7100 series 10Gbps 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 Universal Transponder. With the Agility 7155 covering the C-band and the 7156 covering the L-band, the Agility 7100 series offers fast tuning across 200 channels with 100 kilometer reach, all in a small (3.5-x 4.5-inch), 300-pin MSA (multi-source agreement) package. The first commercially viable, full-band tunable transponder, the Agility Universal Transponder is integrated with Agility's Telcordia-qualified widely tunable laser. Developed for customers looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. reduced costs and higher levels of integration, Agility's universal applications include one-time provisioning, fast switching, sparing, reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs), and SONET protection switching spanning both metro and long-haul markets. The company will be demonstrating the 7100 series at the Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) 2003 Conference and Expo in Atlanta, March 24-28. Agility Universal Transponder Expands List of Industry Firsts With the announcement of the industry's first universal transponder, Agility continues to realize numerous industry firsts, including being the first widely tunable laser company to announce Telcordia qualification, in March 2002. Agility is also the first widely tunable laser company to announce a top-tier, publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. , Lightscape Networks, as a customer and strategic partner. With the November 2002 announcement of the 3205 widely tunable laser, Agility is the first company to announce product availability to the tunable MSA industry standard supported by Alcatel Optronics and Bookham Technologies. "Agility is thrilled to offer customers a higher level of integration, with our MSA transponder," said Arlon Martin, vice president of sales and marketing for Agility Communications. "Higher levels of integration and standardization in the industry reduce costs to new levels, which is a requirement in this marketplace. Our customers can now focus on the software applications that will ultimately differentiate them and bring them success. We are excited to bring this important product to market." "Integration of additional features and functionality is critical for component companies needing to secure key design wins in the current climate," said Vladimir Kozlov, senior analyst with RHK RHK Ratahallintokeskus (Finnish: Finnish Rail Administration) RHK Ryan Hankin Kent (RHK, Inc. marketing consulting firm) RHK Rigshospitalets Kollegium (Copenhagen, Denmark dorm) . "Component companies that are able to move up the food chain and offer companies additional levels of integration not only have a competitive advantage, but will also be able to secure key design wins now that will translate into high volumes once customers begin purchasing again." About the Agility 7100 Universal Transponder The Agility 7100 Universal Transponder is the result of integrating a transmitter and a receiver in the same physical package. Leveraging the Agility 20-mW CW widely tunable laser, the Agility Universal Transponder 7155 and 7156 are designed for use in dense wavelength division multiplexed (DWDM) systems spanning the entire C-band, providing tunability for 200 ITU (International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland, www.itu.ch) A telecommunications standards body that is under the auspices of the United Nations. Comprising more than 185 member countries, the ITU sets standards for global telecom networks. channels with 25-GHz spacing via an I2C I2C Inter-Integrated Circuit I2C Intelligent Interface Controller I2C Intelligent Controller interface. Specifically, the Agility 7155 covers the C-band and the 7156 cover the L-band. The Agility 7100 is available in the 300-pin MSA footprint and supports 10G long-reach applications. The Agility 7100 has a built-in optical blanking shutter used during wavelength tuning; a built-in variable optical attenuator (VOA (Variable Optical Attenuator) A device that can incrementally adjust the power of the optical signal passing through it. ) for automatic transmitter output power control; and modulator Modulator Any device or circuit by means of which a desired signal is impressed upon a higher-frequency periodic wave known as a carrier. The process is called modulation. The modulator may vary the amplitude, frequency, or phase of the carrier. pre-chirp of 0 or -0.7. System applications that can be leveraged with the Agility Universal Transponder include SONET SDH/10GE applications as well as one-time provisioning (OTP (1) (One Time Programmable) Refers to programming content or logic into chips such as EPROMs and EEPROMs, which cannot be reversed. See antifuse. (2) (One Time P ) of transmission wavelength, dynamic wavelength provisioning for reconfigurable OADM OADM Optical (WDM) Add-Drop Multiplexer OADM Optical Add Drop Multiplexer applications, and wavelength switching for optical core networks. Users can select operating speeds from 9.96 Gbs to 11.1 Gbs for SONET/SDH, or 10 Gb Ethernet with or without forward error correction A communications technique that can correct bad data on the receiving end. Before transmission, the data are processed through an algorithm that adds extra bits for error correction. If the transmitted message is received in error, the correction bits are used to repair it. (FEC See forward error correction. FEC - Forward Error Correction ). Availability The Agility 7100 Universal Transponder will be available for customers to sample in March 2003. The product will be showcased at OFC 2003, March 24-28, in booth #4232 at the Atlanta Convention Center. About Agility Communications, Inc. Agility Communications, Inc., the leader in pioneering widely tunable components for metro, switching, and long-haul markets, provides the lowest total cost of ownership and dramatically reduces 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 in 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 October 1998, Agility is headquartered in Santa Barbara, Calif., and has manufacturing facilities in Allentown, Pa. Agility investors include Alliance, Amerindo Investment Advisors, CIENA Corp., Comdisco Ventures, Dell Ventures, General Bank, GM Investment Management Corp., Global Strategic, Granite Global Ventures, London Pacific Assurance Limited, Meritech Capital Partners, Mitsubishi International Corp., Morgenthaler Ventures, Mustang Ventures, Nissho Electronics Corp. (Nissho Iwai American Corp.), Siemens Venture Capital, Tellabs, U.S. Venture Partners, and Worldview Technology Partners. For more information about Agility solutions, visit www.agility.com, send email to info@agility.com, or call 805/690-1700. 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. Note: In "I2C," the 2 should read as superscript Any letter, digit or symbol that appears above the line. 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