OFS ORBITAL™  FIBER DISTRIBUTION CABINET LISTED WITH RURAL DEVELOPMENT UTILITIES PROGRAM (RDUP)

Norcross, GA, October 1, 2007 — OFS, designer, manufacturer, and supplier of leading edge optic products, announced today that its ORBITAL™ Fiber Distribution Cabinet (FDC) has been accepted for listing by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Utilities Program (RDUP). 

“This RDUP listing is key so that more rural FTTH communities can benefit from the ORBITAL Cabinet’s revolutionary patching system,” said William Kloss, President, Telecommunications Marketing and Sales, Americas for OFS. “OFS’ comprehensive FTTx product portfolio offers cost-effective, smart solutions providing access to these services not only in densely populated cities and towns, but to those in rural and remote geographic regions,” Kloss added.

The ORBITAL FDC uses radial fiber routing technology to help solve the time consuming routing problems that plague conventional cabinets. It also eases changes and upgrades using MPO splitter modules that enable cost effective bandwidth growth as customer demands increase.

Inclusion on the RDUP List of Materials means that qualifying rural telephone companies, utilities, and municipalities may purchase products with long-term, low-interest loans funded by the United States government.  The loan program is designed to control costs, enabling customers in rural area to have access to the same services as those offered by the larger regional and national service providers.

The ORBITAL Fiber Distribution Cabinet will be at the FTTH Conference 2007, Orlando, Florida, September 30 – October 3, 2007, Booth 613.

About OFS

OFS is a designer, manufacturer, and supplier of leading edge optical fiber, optical fiber cable, FTTx, optical connectivity and specialty photonics products and solutions for a wide variety of applications and industries. OFS, formerly the optical fiber solutions division of Lucent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: LU), has a proven track record of being first in the industry with application specific fibers, optical connectors, ribbon cables, erbium doped fibers, Raman fiber lasers and more. OFS is committed to providing customers increased value by offering products that deliver lowest cost-per-bit network solutions, protecting investments through flexible solutions for today’s demanding applications.
 
OFS distributes its optical fiber, optical fiber cable, FTTx, optical connectivity and specialty photonics products and solutions directly to end users, as well as through valued distributors, external cable customers and equipment vendors.

OFS is owned by Furukawa Electric, a multi-billion dollar global leader in optical communications. Headquartered in Norcross (in the outskirts of Atlanta), Georgia, USA, OFS operates facilities in Avon (Connecticut), Carrollton (Georgia), Somerset (New Jersey), Sturbridge (Massachusetts), as well as in Denmark, Germany, Russia, and sales offices around the world.
For more information, please visit www.ofsoptics.com.

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Sherry Salyer 
OFS Public Relations
OFS
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shsalyer@ofsoptics.com

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