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LAS VEGAS -- Lynx Photonic Networks (www.LynxPN.com), a leading supplier of network availabilitysolutions, announced today at the Interop exhibition in Las Vegas that itsLightLEADER bypass switching system has been selected by the City of Austin,Texas, which is deploying the system to protect its fiber optic network.

"Optical networks are deployed in a variety of topologies, andprotecting them is a critical part of an organization's - or a city's - disaster recovery program," said Abe Queller, Lynx's vice president,customer applications & support. "While some protocols and topologies, suchas SONET rings, offer protection from single-point failures, othertopologies, such as linear networks, don't offer any protection at all.What we have seen in the past is the collapse of an entire network due topower outages at one or more nodes."

Such outages are common during rainy weather, and Lynx' LightLEADERoptical bypass system - successfully deployed in both commercial andmilitary environments - is specifically designed to recover from suchevents, keeping the network up and running. Failed nodes are bypassed, andthe connectivity is maintained among the rest of the nodes, thus improvingoverall network resilience.

"Because we're now deploying the Lynx bypass system, we expect tosee a definite reduction of total network failures due to power outage,"said Malcolm Yeatts of the City of Austin's Communication TechnologyManagement group. "The Lynx system will be a key element in helping ensure the survivability of our network."

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