Apogee Photonics First to Provide Full Range of Industrial Temperature 10Gb/s Lasers; Apogee Photonics Introduces Cooled 1310nm and 1550nm TOSAs, Completing Its Industrial Temperature Range Offering for All Long Wavelengths.

ALLENTOWN, Penn. & ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Apogee Photonics, supplier of the industry's broadest line of 10 Gb/s laser sources, today announced the addition of a complete line of industrial temperature range 10Gb/s laser sources. Apogee Photonics is the first vendor to offer a full range of 10Gb/s laser sources suitable for industrial temperature ranges (-40 degrees C to +85 degrees C).

Apogee Photonics is providing its growing customer base of tier-one telecommunication and data communication OEMS and module makers with an entire long wavelength product family. The availability of industrial temperature range lasers is critical as 10Gb/s links move to the outside plant environment and as line card port densities continue to increase. Apogee Photonics' new offerings incorporate an XMD compliant 1310nm and 1550nm microcooled transmitter family suitable for SONET SR1/IR1/IR2, and 10GbE LR/ER interfaces across the -40 degrees C to +85 degrees C industrial temperature range.

Fiberxon, Inc., one of the world's leading suppliers of opto-electronic components, modules and subsystems for communication networks, is among the key customers for Apogee Photonics' 10Gb/s laser solutions. Dr. Rang-Chen Yu, vice president of Datacom/Telecom PLG at Fiberxon, said, "Apogee Photonics is the leading vendor that provides such a wide range of solutions at the full industrial temperature range. We are delighted to collaborate with Apogee in developing high performance 10G transceiver solutions to meet stringent customer requirements for high density systems and optical broadband access applications."

Mike Decelle, president and CEO of Apogee Photonics, said, "Apogee Photonics is enabling the next generation of optical networks with devices that reduce size, cut power consumption and lower overall systems costs through higher density packaging and optoelectronic integration. Our new product additions and extended temperature ranges demonstrate our goal to provide the broadest set of 10Gb/s transmission solutions in the market."

About Apogee Photonics Inc.

Apogee Photonics, an ISO9001 registered, privately held corporation, designs, develops, and produces integrated Indium Phosphide (InP) solutions for optical transmission systems that exceed the distance-extinction-power (DEP) product for other optical semiconductor technologies. A leading supplier of integrated high-speed optical sources to the communications industry, Apogee Photonics provides a wide variety of cooled, microcooled, and uncooled products for 10 Gb/s and 40 Gb/s transmission to tier-one system OEMs and module vendors. Additional company and product information is available at www.apogeephotonics.com.