ZÜRICH and TAOYUAN, Taiwan -- Opto Speed and Infomax Optical Technology today announced that they have signed a cooperation agreement in which they agree to collaborate in engineering, manufacturing and sales of their optoelectronic product portfolios in order to maximize mutual benefits.Through this joint cooperation, Opto Speed will be able to provide its customers with its state-of-the-art, high performance Fabry-Perrot and DFB lasers as well as PIN photodetectors packaged in advanced TO cans and receiver & transmitter optical sub-assemblies. These optical sub-assemblies can be provided to transceiver and transponder manufacturers for the full range of transmission speeds from 155Mbit/s up to 2.5Gbit/s and even 10Gbit/s.For Infomax, the cooperation agreement allows the company to expand its product portfolio. “We are very pleased to be cooperating with Opto Speed, a leading developer and manufacturer of high-value-added optoelectronic components for communications, test & measurement, medical and defense markets,” explained Tien-Tsorng Shih, President of Infomax. “We believe this will be a mutually successful, long-term relationship.”“The partnership with Infomax helps Opto Speed significantly broaden its capabilities to serve transceiver and transponder manufacturers with leading edge ROSAs and TOSAs”, said Dr. Christoph Holtmann, marketing director of Opto Speed. “The strong packaging expertise and low-cost packaging capability of Infomax together with our strong technology platform, talented engineering team and leading product offerings will result in high-value-added receiver and transmitter optical subassemblies at very competitive prices for our customers.”Opto Speed SAInfomax Optical Technology Corp.