BOULDER, Colo., March 13, 2003. Picolight has entered into a manufacturing partnership with PEMSTAR. The partnership with PEMSTAR enables Picolight to seamlessly expand the company's manufacturing capacity for its Accelar and Extensus fiber-optic transceivers for enterprise and metro/access markets.

Picolight continues to manufacture key optical sub-components in Boulder, Colorado. These qualified, reliable optical elements are assembled by PEMSTAR and tested to Picolight standards. The company has already transferred manufacturing for multiple transceiver products to PEMSTAR's facilities in Bangkok, Thailand.

Picolight offers a broad range of optical transceiver products for enterprise and storage-area networks and the optical metro/access network. The company's Accelar serial 850nm family includes 1 Gbps Small Form Factor (SFF) transceivers and 1-2 Gbps Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) transceivers for enterprise, as well as 10 Gbps pluggable solutions that are used in 10 Gigabit Ethernet.

The 1310nm Extensus family extends the cost and performance advantages of pluggable, economical enterprise optics to applications in wide area network, metro and access routers that require up to 20-kilometer links.

For more information on Picolight, see www.picolight.com .

For more information on PEMSTAR, visit www.pemstar.com .

WDM Solutions

Thu Mar 13 04:42:00 CST 2003