Photonex Partners For Manufacturing

MAYNARD, Mass. -- PhotonEx Corp.(TM), an emerging leader in 40 Gbps and faster network-wide smart photonic systems, today unveiled its global manufacturing strategy designed to bring to market the industry's first 40 Gbps core optical system later this year. Working with best-of-breed manufacturers, PhotonEx will ship its first product, an end-to-end DWDM optical transport system that starts at 40 Gbps and supports the highest deployable capacity across extended distances. With these capabilities, PhotonEx will allow service providers to reduce the cost of network expansion and maximize revenue opportunities. "To bring next generation 40 Gbps solutions to market this year, we have designed a global manufacturing strategy that combines early collaboration among our development and manufacturing teams, an outsourced manufacturing approach and our unique ability to fine-tune today's commercially-available components for our overall system assembly," said Dr. Kristin Rauschenbach, president, CEO and co-founder of PhotonEx. "These three elements are critical in enabling manufacturability of advanced, innovative optical solutions for the core public services network." The execution of PhotonEx' global manufacturing strategy began early with the development of a mature business infrastructure and strong relationships with top-tier manufacturing services providers, Celestica Inc. and Teradyne Inc. As leading manufacturing services providers, both offer significant cost savings and supply chain efficiencies for PhotonEx, resulting in an economical solution for rapid deployment of products to service providers. In addition, Celestica and Teradyne offer worldwide scalability with over 60 manufacturing facilities in all major geographies. PhotonEx Corp.