ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- EMCORECorporation (Nasdaq: EMKR), a leading provider of compoundsemiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiberoptic, satellite, and solar power markets, today announced the livedemonstration and subsequent release to sampling of its 1550nm DWDM longreach XFP optical transceiver module. The new EDW-9100-XFP will bedemonstrated to selected customers for the 2007 Optical Fiber Conference(OFC) in Anaheim, CA.

This product marks the expansion of EMCORE's market leading portfolioof parallel VCSEL and LX4 optical modules for the 300m multimode marketinto the long reach 10 Gbps application space. This XFP is ideally suitedfor diverse applications including SDH STM-64, SONET OC-192 LR-2, and 10Gigabit Ethernet (10GBASE-ZR).

"As one of the leading suppliers of parallel short reach and coarsewavelength division multiplexing interconnect products, we are excitedabout expanding our product portfolio into the dense wavelength divisionmultiplexing and 100km regimes," said Clay Hudgins, 10G Module Product LineManager at EMCORE Fiber Optics Division. "This product exploits the market-leading 1550nm technology of our Ortel division, while maintaining a robustmultisourcing strategy."

Emcore Corp. (Nasdaq: EMKR)