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Multilink 10 Gbit/s transponder extends to 100 km

Tuesday 26th March 2002

Multilink Technology Corporation a provider of advanced semiconductor-based solutions for high-speed optical networks, has introduced its first compact 100 km optical transponder. The MTC21218 integrates the latest series of Multilink small form factor, extremely low power, ball grid array products, including the MTC5529 12.5 Gbit/s modulator driver (MDR) and the MTC1235 10 Gbit/s multiplexer with integrated clock multiplier unit (MUX-CMU) and MTC1236 demultiplexer with integrated clock and data recovery (CDR-DMUX) chipset. The integrated MDR and MUX-CMU/CDR-DMUX devices, provide the reach and bandwidth capacity required by system vendors and allows them to improve the performance of optical networking systems for overall system cost reductions. This transponder solution is suitable for strategic customer applications such as DWDM systems, metropolitan area networks, IP routers and ATM switches.

"While our competitors are announcing they ve managed to reach 80 km, Multilink is delivering solutions at 100 km with the highest sensitivity and best integrated products in the market today," stated Jens Albers, Executive Vice-President and Co-Chairman of Multilink. "By incorporating Multilink s low power, small form factor BGA products in the transponder module, customers are assured the highest performance, a smaller footprint and lower costs by extending the reach for metro and long-haul applications."

The MTC21218 transponder has small form factor (114 x 89 x 13 mm) and uses a CW DFB laser and lithium niobate Mach-Zehnder modulator to achieve a fiber output power of up to +7 dBm. This high performance transponder is 300 pin MSA compatible and supports data rates of 9.9 (SONET), 10.3 (10 Gigabit Ethernet) and 10.7 (G.709 FEC) Gbit/s for both 80 km and 100 km applications.

The transponder is a low chirp transmitter and is available with either pin or avalanche photodiodes on the receive side.

MTC21218 product samples are available in April. The transponder module is priced at $14,000 for volume quantities of 1,000 units. Dan Butler, 732/537-3838
Fax: 732/805-9177
E-mail: dbutler@mltc.com
Web site: http://www.mltc.com

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