Press Release

October 4, 2004 - Wave7 Optics Increases FTTP Flexibility and Lowers Installation Costs with “Extended Reach Optics”

Company increases reach or “service area radius” of Last Mile Link system by up to 80% to reach more subscribers “per unit” than currently possible

Orlando, Fla., October 4, 2004 -- Wave7 Optics today announced here at the FTTH Conference and Expo that its industry-leading line of next generation optical broadband access equipment, the Last Mile Link (LML), now allows service providers to triple the size of their service area via the incorporation of extended reach optics.

The company’s “Last Mile Core” (LMC) OLT (optical line terminal) unit can now reach subscribers up to 18 km distant when deployed in a “central office” type location and subscribers up to 88 km distant when deployed remotely – an improvement from the 10 and 70 km limits in the previous version of the LMC. The new LMC is fully “backwards compatible” with the installed base of Wave7 equipment.

The LMC is unique among PON OLTs in that it can be deployed remotely from the central office in a distributed architecture or as the centerpiece in a more classical PON approach. This provides the network operator the greatest flexibility available today, compared to other PON equipment, when developing their FTTP topology.

“We have the most adaptable FTTP architecture in the industry,” said Emmanuel Vella, Chief Marketing Officer of Wave7 Optics. “We allow service providers to deploy FTTP in a conventional PON format or as a hybrid active and passive architecture with unprecedented reach, flexibility and immunity to signal degradation and cross talk caused by phenomena such as SRS.”

Wave7 Optics is demonstrating the complete LML product line today through Wednesday, October 6, at the FTTH Council Conference, booth 706 at the Caribe Royale Resort and Convention Center in Orlando.

About Wave7 Optics

Wave7 Optics has established itself as an industry leader in optical broadband access systems with an expanding FTTP product portfolio featuring a variety of architectural options, based on Ethernet and IP or ATM standards, for "triple play" voice, video and data services. The company's patented Last Mile Link system is rapidly gaining market share around the world with service providers in the IOC, CLEC, MSO, municipal, real estate development and utility categories.

Additional information about Wave7 Optics is available on the web at www.wave7optics.com or by contacting Emmanuel Vella at emmanuel.vella@w7optics.com.

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

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