Press Release

October 1, 2007 - Wave7 Optics Adds Compact Optical Line Terminal to Trident7 Product Suite

ORLANDO –October 1, 2007 - Wave7 Optics, a leading supplier of fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) equipment for residential and business services, today announced here at the Fiber-to-the-Home Council’s Conference and Expo the addition of the Compact Optical Line Terminal (COLT) to its industry leading Trident7™ product line.

The Trident7 COLT is the industry’s only temperature hardened OLT requiring only 2 RU (“rack units”) of space for deployment. These unique design features allow network operators to deploy the COLT in inexpensive, non-climatically controlled field cabinets to serve small pockets of up to 256 subscribers, assuming typical 32-way PON splits. The COLT can be deployed up to 70 km away from either a Trident7 Universal OLT or third-party multilayer switch in a central office or head-end, and the COLT can also extend network reach and push resiliency closer to the network edge.

As such, the COLT is ideally suited to support deployments with smaller independent telephone companies who have a smaller base of potential subscribers and still want to deploy PON, or in the Asian market where the COLT can be installed in high rise MDUs to serve apartment dwellers.

“It’s not always economically practical to deploy a full OLT that can support thousands of customer premises,” said Emmanuel Vella, Chief Marketing Officer for Wave7 Optics. “If a network operator needs to serve a small or remote area of subscribers, then the Trident7 COLT provides a cost-effective means to do so without any compromise to the services provided.”

Trident7 is the industry’s only FTTP platform capable of delivering standards-based IEEE 802.3 GE-PON (EFM PON) and ITU G.984 GPON triple-play services from a common platform. The Trident7 COLT expands on this universal access design philosophy by utilizing the same standards-based GE-PON and GPON interface modules used in the full-size Trident7 OLT while maximizing deployment flexibility by allowing deployment with third party ONTs.

The Trident7 COLT is now generally available and shipping to customers. Wave7 Optics began shipping Trident7 platform products in the second half of 2006. The platform is already deployed by more than 40 customers in North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania.

Wave7 Optics is exhibiting the complete Trident7 product line at the 2007 FTTH Council Conference & Expo at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort, September 30 – October 4, in Booth 213. In addition, Wave7 Optics’ CTO, Jim Farmer, is giving a presentation, “Everything You Need to Know about Video,” on Tuesday, October 2nd 10:15 – 11:00 AM, in Salon V.

About Wave7 Optics

Wave7 Optics is the industry leader in optical broadband access systems, with an expanding FTTP product portfolio featuring a variety of architectural options, based on IP and Ethernet standards, for triple-play voice, video and data services. The company's patented Trident7 and Last Mile Link systems are rapidly gaining market share around the world with service providers in the IOC, CLEC, cable MSO, municipal, utilities and real estate development categories.

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