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News Release from: Bookham | Subject: Products at ECOC
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 30 August 2002

European exhibition debut
for 'new' Bookham

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Bookham Technology will be demonstrating its complete end-to-end capability for the first time in Europe at next month's ECOC 2002 flagship optical communications event in Copenhagen

Bookham Technology will be demonstrating its complete end-to-endcapability for the first time in Europe at next month's ECOC2002 flagship optical communications event in Copenhagen.Following its acquisition of Marconi's optical componentsbusiness, in February 2002, the company has made an importantacceleration towards achieving its goal of becoming theworld-leading provider of powerful solutions for passives,actives and amplifiers for the complete range of customer opticalnetworking requirements.

'Bookham is totally resolved toemerge from the industry's current downturn as the leadingoptical components business on a truly world scale', saidBookham President and Chief Executive Officer, Giorgio Anania.'We have made remarkable progress already and many of thevisitors to ECOC - which we regard as a major event - will havetheir first chance to see the new Bookham in action and to talkto our very talented people.

It is an opportunity they should notmiss'.

For its customers, cost reduction is essential andbreadth of product line is critical.

Customers are looking forsuppliers with the staying power to survive the currentdifficulties while offering cost-effective solutions that reducenot only component cost but also total installed cost whilemaintaining, or even increasing, product reliability andmanufacturability.

Bookham leverages its core technologies todeliver such solutions to the industry.

Today, the company has aleading technical position with three disruptive technologiesthat deliver intrinsic cost reduction: silicon-based ASOC, indiumphosphide (InP) and gallium arsenide (GaAs).

Its new capabilitiesin automated mass production of both GaAs and InP optical ICscomplement its investment in silicon optical circuits to produceone of the industry's most comprehensive product portfolios.Bookham's product line-up has been broadened to include thekey components required for next-generation optical networks,including fixed and tunable lasers, high-speed GaAs modulators,transmitters, receivers and erbium doped fibre amplifiers(EDFAs).

Combining these advanced components with silicon-basedoptical integrated products enables us to offer true end-to-endsolutions throughout the network.

Experience the 'new'Bookham at ECOC Booth 95, where the company will demonstrate itsproduct range and end-to-end capability.

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