Enablence selected by ZTE for majority of its ROADM requirements

November 3, 2008

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OTTAWA -- Enablence Technologies Inc. ("Enablence")(TSX VENTURE:ENA - News), a global leader in optical communications which provides systems, subsystems and components for Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH), metro and long haul markets, announced today that it won a major bid from China's ZTE Corporation ("ZTE"), one of the first and now largest telecommunications enterprises in China. Under this arrangement, Enablence will be supplying its industry leading Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) based Reconfigurable Optical Add Drop Multiplexers (ROADM) and its PLC based Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWG) products.

Enablence's iROAD(TM) provides a flexible, integrated solution for multi-channel ROADMs with power monitoring and automatic channel balancing at low cost, small size and low power dissipation. It allows carriers to switch traffic and dynamically reconfigure networks to match the changing bandwidth needs of different customers. Enablence's ROADM makes this traffic switch automatically and remotely thus reducing operating expenses for carriers. ZTE has chosen Enablence iROAD(TM) solutions due to its high performance. This product will allow telecommunications service providers to quickly increase services to their customers and will therefore result in significant revenue generation.

The Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWG) is commonly used in optical networks to combine a large number of wavelengths into a single optical fiber. Enablence's AWGs come in colorless and polarization maintaining options, and can combine as many as 80 wavelengths into a single fiber. "Enablence has been a leading supplier for Arrayed Waveguide Gratings for the European and North American markets for many years. This win from a major Chinese equipment manufacturer is very significant for us as it is a further indication of our strong customer focus and competitive position in the global market place" said Arvind Chhatbar, CEO of Enablence.

Enablence Technologies Inc. (Toronto: ENA)

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