Optillion First to Announce Both 10 km and 40 km 10 Gbit/s Ethernet Long Distance XENPAK Transceivers

[REMOVED GRAPHICS]Visit Optillion at OFC Booth 5008 Optillion First to Announce Both 10 km and 40 km 10 Gbit/s Ethernet Long Distance XENPAK Transceivers -Longer distance and reliability enables Ethernet to move from LANs to MANs- Stockholm, Sweden-February 28, 2002- Providing the longer range and reliability for Ethernet to move from LANs to the Metro markets, Optillion today announced its new 10 Gbit/s Ethernet transceiver (1550 nm), the TOP 5010, for data transmission up to 40 kilometers. Optillion has optimized the design of its transceivers to ensure high reliability, which is essential for critical data applications in Metro networks. The TOP 5010 is being sampled to select customers in April, and the company expects to deliver to a broader customer base by June 2002. The new TOP 5010 for 40 km, along with the company's TOP 3010 (1310 nm) for 10 km, cements Optillion's leadership in high-speed fiber-optic transceiver technology as the first company with a product portfolio that supports the IEEE 802.3ae standard definition of the 10GBASE-LR and the10GBASE-ER. Using 40% less power compared with the power requirements of XENPAK and the previous generation's 300 pin transponders, the TOP 5010 is designed in accordance with Telcordia GR-468-CORE to ensure reliability. "The new TOP 5010 extended reach transceiver further strengthens Optillion's product range for the growing 10 Gigabit per second Ethernet market," says Optillion's CEO and President Patrik Evaldsson. "The new transceiver allows 10 Gigabit per second Ethernet to take the step right into the metro networks." TOP of the line The TOP 5010 and the TOP 3010 maintain their optimal operating characteristics by controlling the internal working environment, even at elevated temperature conditions. By developing all of its products from a unique multi purpose platform where lasers are combined with a protocol chip, Optillion achieves a high rate of product development. The transceiver has an extremely high performance level for longer transmission distances and has been developed in accordance with the latest revision 10 Gbit/s Ethernet standard (IEEE 802.3ae). The module development follows the XENPAK multi-source agreement (MSA) requirements and is the second transceiver in a long range of products designed to outperform the IEEE standard specification. Availability of the TOP 5010 Optillion will start sampling the TOP 5010 to a selected number of customers in April. The company plans to offer the TOP 5010 transceiver to a broader customer base June 2002, and estimates that volume production of the transceiver will start during the third quarter of 2002. For product information and press photos, see the following URLs: http://www.optillion.com/newspress_material.asp http://www.optillion.com/products_datasheets.asp About Optillion Optillion (www.optillion.com) operates in the optic component and subsystem market to develop, manufacture and market transceivers that increase capacity in the fiber-optic network. The transmission capacity of Optillion's first transceivers is 10 Gbit/s Ethernet. Today, Optillion employs experts in high-speed electronics, high-speed optics, automated manufacturing and encasing. The company currently employs 105 people. Optillion's investors are ITACT, Crescendo Ventures, Cisco Systems and Investor AB via Investor Growth Capital, its venture capital company. Contact: Heléne Wolpher VP Corporate Communication Tel.: +46 8 52 72 52 23 Mobile: +46 701 81 52 23 ### ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2002/02/28/20020228BIT00710/wkr0001.doc http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2002/02/28/20020228BIT00710/wkr0002.pdf