EXFO Receives 1.6M Order from Network Service Provider

Quebec City, Ca., March 25, 2003. EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. has received a $1.6 million order from a prominent Tier-1 network service provider (NSP) for predominantly protocol-layer test equipment. The NSP purchased 2.5 Gb/s and 10 Gb/s SONET/SDH testers as well as optical time domain reflectometers (OTDRs), which are contained inside EXFO's best-of-class FTB-400 field-testing platform, and optical loss test sets to ensure the integrity of its high-speed optical networks.

During the past year, EXFO became the first fiber-optic test and measurement vendor to fully integrate protocol-, optical- and physical-layer testing capabilities inside a single platform.Its SONET/SDH test modules are ideally suited for metro and access networks because they can handle transmission rates from OC-192 (10 Gb/s) down to DS0 (64 kb/s) in North America and STM-64 (10 Gb/s) down to E0 (64 kb/s) in Europe and abroad. The FTB-400 platform supports a wide range of protocols, such as SONET, SDH, T-Carrier, PDH, 10/100 Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet, through easily exchangeable test modules.

Combined with a broad offering of high-end optical- and physical-layer test modules, including optical spectrum analyzers (OSAs), polarization mode dispersion (PMD) analyzers, chromatic dispersion (CD) analyzers and OTDRs-all contained inside a single unit -EXFO's all-in-one solution allows customers to future-proof their test systems. EXFO's all-in-one test solution is currently on display at booth 2341 during OFC 2003 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.

For more information, visit www.exfo.com .

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