OFS RE-LAUNCHES ITS LEADING FTTX OFFERING AS FOX™ SOLUTION

Name Change Reflects Broadening of FTTX Applications Served by OFS

OFC/ NFOEC 2008, Booth 1835, San Diego, CA, February 26, 2008  — OFS today announced that it is re-launching the Access ADVANTAGE System, as FOX™ Solution (Fiber Optics to the X).  This new name better reflects the broadening diversity of OFS’ FTTX solution for multiple applications.

“The change of name to FOX Solution demonstrates our commitment to consistently expand our FTTX product and solution portfolio to enable our customers to more efficiently support fiber to the  business and residence, in addition to serving utilities, windfarms, transportation management, and other fiber to the X applications,” said William Kloss, Executive VP of Marketing & Sales, North America & CALA. “Additionally as we have seen our customer and application base diversifying for this product line, we wanted to accelerate brand recognition with an easily recognized symbol reflective of the acronym for Fiber Optics to the X,” Mr. Kloss added.

The FOX Solution is a comprehensive end-to-end FTTX offering that helps service providers to achieve maximum return on investments (ROI) for fiber to the home, businesses, and multiple dwelling unit (MDU) deployments in a wide range of environments, including those previously hard to reach. The Solution offers fast, cost-effective network installation to help reduce first cost, with reliable support to help reduce life cycle cost. It can support ultra high speed video, data, HDTV, voice, online gaming, and many other revenue-generating services.   Key components of the FOX Solution include OptiCost ™ modeling and design services, AllWave^® and bend-optimized AllWave^® FLEX Zero Water Peak (ZWP) Fibers, LGX^® Central Office/Head End Solution, Fortex^TM DT and AccuRibbon^® DC fully dry cables, AllWave FLEX Jumpers and connectorized cable assemblies, ORBITAL^TM Fiber Distribution Cabinet, and the V-Linx^TM Spool & Play Solution for MDU deployments.

About OFS

OFS is a world-leading designer, manufacturer and provider of optical fiber, optical fiber cable, FTTX, optical connectivity and specialty photonics products.  Our manufacturing and research divisions work together to provide innovative products and solutions that traverse many different applications as they link people and machines anywhere in the world. Between continents, between cities, around neighborhoods, and into homes and businesses of digital consumers we provide the right optical fiber, optical cable and components for efficient, cost-effective transmission.
 
OFS’ corporate lineage dates back to 1876 and included technology powerhouses such as AT&T (NYSE: T) and Lucent Technologies (now Alcatel-Lucent, NYSE: ALU). Today, OFS is owned by Furukawa Electric, a multi-billion dollar global leader in optical communications. 

Headquartered in Norcross (near Atlanta, Georgia), U.S., OFS is a global provider with facilities in Avon, Connecticut; Carrollton, Georgia; Somerset, New Jersey; and Sturbridge, Massachusetts, as well as in Denmark, Germany and Russia.

For more information, please visit www.ofsoptics.com.

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CONTACTS:

Sherry Salyer 
OFS Public Relations
OFS
shsalyer@ofsoptics.com
    
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