Apogee Photonics LIM Product Sets Industry Standard for Reliability and Design with Over 150 Million Field Hours with Zero Field Returns.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- Proven Product Family Provides Customers with High Performance, Low Cost and Versatile Architecture for Optical Networks

Apogee Photonics, supplier of the industry's broadest line of 10 Gb/s laser sources for the communications industry, today announced that its Laser Integrated Modulator(R) (LIM) family of products has achieved more than 150 million field hours with zero field returns. This corresponds to a FIT (Failure-in-Time) rate of <15, setting an industry standard for component reliability. The Apogee Photonics LIM product family offers the highest reliability on the market and enables the shortest lead time in the industry for high-performance 10 Gb/s transmitters.

Apogee Photonics is widely recognized for its leading-edge 10 Gb/s and 40 Gb/s photonics technology. The company has manufactured its LIM architecture to reduce size, cut power consumption and lower overall system costs through higher density packaging and optoelectronic integration. Apogee's LIM product offers a versatile platform that provides customers with the highest output power, the widest dispersion tolerance and the longest transmission distance compared with other EML solutions.

The Telcordia-qualified LIM platform, based on EAMP(R) technology, incorporates integrated Indium Phosphide (InP) lasers, modulators and optical amplifiers in a standard 7-pin EML-compatible package with inter-chip isolated coupling. The LIM architecture allows OEM and module manufacturers to adopt a standardized platform approach at the systems level, which greatly reduces the risks associated with new technology introduction and provides significant development cost savings.

"Apogee Photonics created and manufactured the LIM product architecture to ensure that customers would achieve the highest reliability and performance with as little cost and development intervals as possible," said Scott Keller, Apogee Photonics vice president of marketing and sales. "Our top priority is to help customers integrate highly reliable products and provide them with a strategic roadmap for future product introductions. Apogee Photonics' standardized approach to platform development lets customers innovate without the concern of new technology integration, while helping them to achieve strong reliability benefits and even greater return on their optical networks."

The Apogee Photonics LIM platform is highly differentiated from all other 10 Gb/s EML solutions available on the market. Key benefits of the LIM platform include:

--a single form factor (both mechanical and electrical) for dozens of different system solutions, removing the cost of redesign at the systems level;

--high output power that eliminates optical amplifiers that cost hundreds of dollars per link;

--symmetric dispersion tolerance that offers the most robust link performance via optimization of signal fidelity in a dispersion managed system; and

--long transmission distance that decreases the total number of O/E conversions, thus reducing deployment costs.

About Apogee Photonics Inc.

Apogee Photonics is a pure play supplier of high speed, integrated optical components to the communications industry, providing the broadest line of 10 Gb/s laser sources from short-reach up to DWDM. Apogee Photonics' innovative technology, which is deployed in tier-one system OEMs and module vendors worldwide, exceeds the capabilities of other optical semiconductor technologies in terms of distance-extinction-power product, reduced power dissipation, or uncooled operation for extended temperatures. Field tested and deployed in large volumes, the Apogee Photonics product family is highly reliable and Telcordia certified. Apogee Photonics is ISO 9001 certified and is headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania. For more information, please visit www.apogeephotonics.com.