Optical Switches address Agile DWDM network.

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Agile Optical Switches allow service providers to remotely adapt wavelength services to meet changing traffic demand. Wavelength Selective Switch includes 100 GHz and 50 GHz versions, supporting long-haul and metro networks. Colorless routing enables any wavelength to be routed to any port and eliminates need for pre-planning of port usage. Based on planar lightwave circuit, 40-channel ROADM integrates filtering, power measurement, power balancing, switching, and control.



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JDSU Expands Agile Optical Switch Portfolio



SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 9 / -- As part of a new strategic initiative to address the rapidly growing market for Agile Optical Networks, JDSU (Nasdaq: JDSU; TSX: JDU) today introduced two new products to its Agile Optical Switch portfolio, featuring the industry's leading reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) solutions. These new products -- the JDSU Wavelength Selective Switch (WSS) and 40-Channel PLC ROADM -- are key enablers of the Agile Optical Network.

An Agile Optical Network (AON) is a dynamically reconfigurable DWDM network designed to accelerate triple-play service deployment and enable advanced wavelength applications at significantly reduced cost. According to Ovum-RHK, the market for ROADMs -- a major element of the AON -- is expected to surpass the fixed OADM market this year and to grow at more than 40 percent annually.

JDSU addresses this market with its Agile Optical Switch portfolio, which allows service providers to adapt wavelength services to meet changing traffic demand, remotely and efficiently, supporting the cost-effective acceleration of new service deployment. JDSU's new Agile Optical Switch products include:

-- The Wavelength Selective Switch (WSS) -- JDSU's WSS includes both 100 GHz and 50 GHz versions -- supporting both long-haul and metro networks -- and features "colorless" routing, enabling any wavelength to be routed to any port and giving network operators greater flexibility by eliminating the need for pre-planning of port usage. The colorless functionality is aligned particularly well to the growing use of tunable transponders and streamlines service provisioning. The WSS, the only product of its kind carrying live traffic in large-scale networks, also facilitates wavelength routing at intersecting rings.

-- 40-Channel PLC ROADM -- JDSU has established the leading planar lightwave circuit (PLC)-based ROADM market share position through the unique design of its PLC platform that enables a high level of integration of the various ROADM functions, including filtering, power measurement, power balancing, switching and control system. JDSU's new 40-channel PLC ROADM features market-leading insertion loss performance, supports "drop and continue" architectures and provides, on day one, access to 100 percent of the wavelengths to be added and dropped, reducing hardware changes required for new wavelength services to simple modular transponder deployment.

JDSU's Agile Optical Switch portfolio also includes Wavelength Blockers, which provide the blocking and attenuation functions of a ROADM and reduce the number of O-E-O (optical-electrical-optical) conversions in long-haul and metro networks.

"JDSU's Agile Optical Switches are to the AON what a router is to the Internet," said David Gudmundson, JDSU's senior vice president of corporate development and marketing.

JDSU's Agile Optical Network portfolio, including its Agile Optical Switches, will be on display at OFC/NFOEC 2006, booth number 2323 in the Anaheim (CA) Convention Center on March 7-9. For more information on JDSU's AON portfolio, please visit www.jdsu.com/aon.

About JDSU
JDSU is committed to enabling broadband & optical innovation in the communications, commercial and consumer markets. JDSU is the leading provider of communications test and measurement solutions and optical products for telecommunications service providers, cable operators, and network equipment manufacturers. Furthermore, JDSU is a leading provider of innovative optical solutions for medical/environmental instrumentation, semiconductor processing, display, brand authentication, aerospace and defense, and decorative applications. More information is available at www.jdsu.com.

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