ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- Agere Systems (NYSE: AGR.A), the world leader in communications components, today announced enhancements to its family of transceivers and receivers for optical networking systems. With small-form-factor size and speeds that range from OC-3 (155 megabits-per-second) to OC-192 (10 gigabits-per-second), these products provide systems manufacturers the design flexibility to enable a variety of network configurations and service offerings for service provider customers. Agere's transceiver/receiver product family includes a new set of pluggable transceivers, new Netlight(tm) transceivers with extended temperature range, a high-performing 10 Gbit/s positive-intrinsic-negative (PIN) receiver, and new 2.5 Gbit/s 1R/2R/3R receivers. "Agere's transceiver and receiver portfolio can satisfy systems makers looking for discrete components or integrated solutions, no matter what design level they require," said Meg Acker, access marketing director for Agere's Optoelectronics division. Agere Systems