I did not notice anyone at this board posting this information back on 12/4. any opinions on the company or the HfWDM technology? Pat, I defer to your expertise......
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BSNS WIRE) Essex First to Demonstrate 1 GHz Channel Spacing To Enable As Many As 4000 Channels Per Fiber
Business Editors
COLUMBIA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2000--With an advancement
that will dramatically increase fiber capacity and make data
distribution more efficient, Essex Corporation, an optical company
developing technology in Hyperfine Wave Division Multiplexing(TM)
(HfWDM), today announced that it is the first company to demonstrate 1
GHz channel spacing using its Hyperfine technology.
This breakthrough demonstration will allow for the transport of
4000 channels. The demonstration system met its design of 16 GHz with
a channel spacing of 1 GHz.
Terry Turpin, Chief Technical Officer, said, "We are very pleased
to have this demonstration system operating as our models predicted.
We see no obstacles in obtaining thousands of channels."
To achieve such performance, Essex is developing the Hyperfine
technology, which improves the data-carrying utilization of fiber by
factors of 5 to 20 because it carries data with much more narrow
channel spacing than existing systems. Hyperfine technology represents
a family of devices, including the Hyperfine Demultiplexer(TM),
Hyperfine Multiplexer(TM), Hyperfine Add/Drop Multiplexer(TM) and
tunable receivers.
A Hyperfine system can be adapted for any channel spacing required
by any fiber-optic communication including gigabit ethernet at 1.25
GHz and even those applications under 1 GHz.
"We expect to demonstrate a 50 GHz bandwidth capability in early
2001," stated Len Moodispaw, Chief Executive Officer. "The Hyperfine
module divides standard DWDM channels into 50 to 100 one GHz channels.
This will enable Hyperfine to have significant impact on the metro and
last mile problems with greater fiber capacity and more efficient data
distribution compatible with CMOS technology."
As previously announced, Essex has a patent pending for the
Hyperfine module.
About Essex
Founded in 1969 with headquarters in Columbia, MD, Essex
(OTC:ESEX.OB) is an experienced and respected optical and
communication engineering company that designs and builds creative
solutions for complex problems. With a core team of 17 optical
engineers, Essex develops high-speed optoelectronic processors for
imaging, signal processing and communications systems, and supplies
advanced processing and satellite communications engineering for the
government including the Department of Defense and for private
industry.
For more information contact Essex Corporation, 9150 Guilford
Road, Columbia MD 21046; phone 301/939-7000; fax 301/953-7880; e-mail
ir@essexcorp.com, or on the Web at www.essexcorp.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the
meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The Company's actual results
could differ materially from those discussed in or implied by such
forward-looking statements.
Factors that might cause such differences include but are not
limited to the ability of Essex Corporation to raise necessary
development funds, enter into strategic relationships with key
industry participants, develop and build optoelectronics devices and
protect and defend its intellectual property, and changes in
technology, technical obsolescence, changes in customer needs, new
product developments, competitive factors in the industry and
uncertainty of market acceptance.
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CONTACT: Essex Corporation
Leonard E. Moodispaw, 301/939-7000
or
Thomas Murphy, 301/217-0009 Ext. 35
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