LOS ANGELES -- Cognet Microsystems, a provider of high-speed fiber optic solutions to the data networking and telecommunications industry, today announced the industry's first 10 Gbps Limiting Amplifier in standard Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) process technology. The new technology will enable manufacturers to build low-cost fiber optic modules for OC192 SONET and 10 Gigabit Ethernet applications. Cognet uses the standard CMOS process to manufacture this product, compared to its competitors who depend on exotic processes such as GaAs or SiGe. The Limiting Amplifier utilizes Cognet's proprietary Broadband Cascade Amplifier (BCA) a novel circuit architecture that allows CMOS to achieve broadband performance previously attained only through SiGe or GaAs processes.

"This is a significant achievement toward providing low-cost components for the 10 Gbps market," said K. Joseph Sikias, Director of Sales and Marketing at Cognet. "Cognet continues to be the leader in providing integrated CMOS solutions for high speed fiber optic networks. This is a major technology milestone because this level of performance was considered to be beyond the reach of CMOS. Cognet's customers will be able to realize a cost and power reduction in their 10 Gbps modules."

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