Azea Picks Iolon Tunable FiltersAzea Picks Iolon Tunable Filters

Iolon delivers its adaptive tracking, widely tunable filter to Azea Networks, which manufactures submarine optical network terminal equipment

March 31, 2004

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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- iolon, Inc., the leading designer and manufacturer of tunable optical devices, announced today that it has begun production shipments of the industry's first adaptive tracking, widely tunable filter to Azea Networks. Azea is a UK designer and manufacturer of submarine optical network terminal equipment that allows operators to exploit the full potential of their existing cable assets. These production shipments are the outcome of ongoing qualification and testing activities between Azea and iolon that started in December 2002, when iolon began shipment of tunable filter prototypes to Azea.

"iolon's tunable filters enable Azea's system to adaptively track and optimize received wavelength in real time," said Stuart Barnes, Chief Technical Officer of Azea Networks. "This is a key feature in Azea's ability to deliver a submarine network upgrade solution that provides operators with the ability to unlock additional capacity potential well beyond their systems' original design limits without any changes to existing wet plant."

"Over the past two years, iolon has enabled the world's first deployments of broadly tunable optical networks by supplying its customers with the first full-band tunable lasers that meet the exacting optical performance and stringent reliability requirements demanded of components that transmit live network traffic," said Herb Dwight, founder, former CEO, and Chairman of Spectra-Physics and member of iolon's Board of Directors. "With the shipment of production tunable filters to Azea Networks, iolon is bringing tunability to the receive side of optical networks. By fully exploiting the broad capabilities of its tunable technology platform, iolon has become the industry's only full-line supplier of widely-tunable optical components."

"iolon's widely tunable lasers are network deployed, transmitting live traffic in telecommunications systems in both North America and in Europe. Our success with Azea Networks over the last year with our widely tunable filter provides real-world validation that iolon has extended the advantages of its MEMS-based tunable technology platform to the receive side of the network," said John Clark, President, CEO, and Chairman of iolon, Inc. "Azea Networks' advanced submarine terminal equipment demonstrates the system performance and cost savings that tunability provides to operators of optical networks."

Iolon Inc.

Azea Networks Ltd.

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