Press Release

December 2, 2003 - Wave7 Optics Announces First Fiber-to-the-Home Network Installation in Mexico

Wave7’s Last Mile Link® Optical Broadband Equipment to Provide “Triple Play” Services for Residents of the “Bosque Real” Community just outside Mexico City

Atlanta, GA -- December 2, 2003 – Wave7 Optics today announced that their Last Mile Link™ Fiber-to-the-Home or –Business (FTTx) network system has been selected to provide super high-speed Triple Play (voice, video and data) as well as telemetry and security monitoring services for the 10,000 residences -- and eventually businesses -- at the “Bosque Real” golf course development just outside Mexico City. The first phase of Bosque Real (an Acelera project) is almost exclusively residential and “Phase Two“ will include school, shopping, recreation, medical facilities and mixed-use commercial development.

“We are designing Bosque Real to be the most technologically-advanced development in Latin America,” said Victor Barreiro, VP of Bosque Real Country Club Services. “For this technology showcase, we chose the Last Mile Link from Wave7 as the most economical and technically-advanced platform for advanced optical broadband services.”

“Interest in the LML outside the United States is growing rapidly,” said Tom Tighe, CEO of Wave7 Optics. “Wave7 has established a worldwide network of VARS and OEMs and these channel partners are proving very successful in gaining international interest in our solution.”

The LML is an IP (Internet protocol) and Ethernet standards-based advanced optical access system that provides all traditional “carrier-grade” telephone services (including fax), high-speed data (e.g., Internet service) and both analog and digital video (including IP streaming video). Featuring industry-leading privacy and security encryption techniques and industry-leading “quality of service” mechanisms designed for business applications, the LML overcomes the high-fiber counts, limited distance range and high “central office” equipment costs that have stymied the growth of FTTx systems.

The LML provides up to 300 times more capacity than competing broadband systems, such as DSL or cable modem, at the same or lower installation cost. It also provides twice the sustainable downstream bandwidth per subscriber and eight times the sustainable upstream bandwidth per subscriber compared to ATM PON FTTx solutions. Commercial customer high-speed bandwidth applications can range up to much greater speeds, potentially to Wave 7 Optics’ 500 Mbps capability. Furthermore, the LML uses standard data and telephone interfaces at its customer premise devices accommodating existing home and business telephone and computer systems, meaning customers do not have to buy new equipment to get on the new network.


About Acelera
Acelera is a Telecommunications Service Provider with coverage throughout Mexico that offers integrated Internet and voice solutions to the residential and SME market. Acelera uses some of the most advanced technologies, including wireless, satellite, fiber and coaxial, in order to deliver services. Acelera has exclusive right to develop the most advanced fiber optics network in the Bosque Real Country Club development. For more information, please visit www.acelera.net.

About Wave7 Optics
Wave7 Optics, Inc. is a market leader in the fiber-to-the-home and -business (FTTx) optical access market. The company's Last Mile Link® optical access system effectively overcomes the cost and implementation barriers that have to date stymied the deployment of FTTx systems.

Wave7 Optics has pioneered the first intelligent PON (passive optical network) system, which is effectively a generation ahead of comparable PON technologies in both cost and capability. For instance, the “OLT” (optical line terminal) equivalent can be deployed either in the field or central office and the Last Mile Link uses lower cost IP- (Internet Protocol) and Ethernet-standards based components to provide a "triple play" of voice, video and very high-speed data services to residential, business and multi-tenant or multi-dwelling building customers. The Last Mile Link offers service providers a particular advantage with regards to video in that it is the only platform that supports upstream RF return signals and readily accommodates HDTV.

The company has been named a "Hot Start Up" company for 2003 by two of the world's leading trade journals -- America's Network and Telecommunications.

For more information please contact emmanuel.vella@w7optics.com.

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