Corning to Showcase New Products and Technologies for the Optical Layer at OFC 2001.Business/Hi-Tech Editors CORNING, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2001 More than a dozen live demonstrations will highlight latest innovations; Company will also present its annual market overview in conjunction with conference Corning Incorporated Corning Incorporated NYSE: GLW is an American manufacturer of glass, ceramics and related materials, primarily for industrial and scientific applications. The company was known until 1989 as Corning Glass Works. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :GLW GLW Glasgow Airport (UK) GLW Gross Laden Weight GLW Good Lady Wife (Australia) ), an industry-leading manufacturer of optical fiber, cable and photonic Dealing with light (photons). See photon and photonics. products, will once again showcase its capabilities in optical technology at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (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 ) featuring more than a dozen live demonstrations of key products designed to advance optical communications Optical communications The transmission of speech, data, video, and other information by means of the visible and the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. . OFC 2001, a major optical technology event, will be held from March 17-22 in Anaheim, CA. Corning will exhibit its latest products, focused on cost-effective, next generation optical communications technologies in booth #2638 in 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 demonstrations will feature products and technologies that will enable key advances in the optical layer, including 40 Gb/s transmission and wavelength management. One of the most significant technical requirements of next generation 40 Gb/s systems is maintaining the integrity of the optical signal, because at 40 billion bits per second there is a much lower tolerance for signal distortion. One of Corning's live demos will showcase a suite of products and technologies used in optical compensation. Widely deployed today in 10 Gb/s systems, optical compensation products manage the shape and quality of light signals as they move through an optical network and are critical to these next generation systems. Corning also plans to demonstrate how selective wavelength management, another important factor in next generation optical systems, works in a metro ring. Included in this demonstration will be Corning's MetroCor(TM) optical fiber and PureGain(TM)2500C optical amplifiers A device that boosts light signals in an optical fiber network. Unlike regenerators, which have to convert light to electricity in order to amplify it and then convert it back again to light, the optical amplifier amplifies the light signal itself. , key enablers of the longer reach, more cost effective and less complex network solution that the growing metropolitan market is seeking to achieve. MetroCor fiber is fast becoming the advanced fiber of choice for leading metro network providers, as evidenced by the many contract awards announced since its introduction less than one year ago. Corning's booth will showcase a number of other new products across its broad spectrum of optical layer technologies. "Optimizing performance in the optical layer requires an understanding of the synergies and performance trade-offs among all the elements that make up an optical network ," said Wendell Weeks, president Corning Optical Communications. "At Corning, we are continually developing products through this process of integrated innovation in order to enable next generation optical networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. solutions. That's the 'value add' we bring to our customers, and it is what we're demonstrating at OFC 2001." Annual Market Overview In conjunction with its participation in OFC 2001, Corning will also present its annual overview of the optical fiber and photonics markets to media and analysts on March 19 at 8:30 a.m. in the Anaheim Marriott Hotel, Marquis Ballroom South. Registration and breakfast will precede the event from 7:45 to 8:30 a.m. To register for this event on line, go to www.corning.com/inside_corning/events/. A live audio webcast of the event will also be available from www.corning.com. Established in 1851, Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) creates leading-edge technologies for the fastest-growing markets of the world's economy. Corning manufactures optical fiber, cable and photonic products for the telecommunications industry; and high-performance displays and components for television and other communications-related industries. The company also uses advanced materials Advanced Materials is a leading peer-reviewed materials science journal published every two weeks. Advanced Materials includes Communications, Reviews, and Feature Articles from the cutting edge of materials science, including topics in chemistry, physics, to manufacture products for scientific, semiconductor and environmental markets. Corning's revenues in 2000 were $7.1 billion. |
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