Avanex Corporation (Avanex), incorporated in October 1997, is engaged in the design, manufacture and marketing of fiber optic-based products, known as photonic solutions. The Company's photonic solutions are used by telecommunications system integrators and their network carrier customers. Avanex's photonic solutions perform optical signal processing and influence systems architecture. Its photonic solutions include discrete devices, modules and sub systems with built-in optical processing algorithms. The Company's product portfolio is organized into two product groups: Active Optical Solutions and Passive Optical Solutions. The Active Optical Solutions product group consists of product lines, such as Transmission, Integrated Optics, Amplification and Network Managed Subsystems. The Passive Optical Solutions product group includes product lines, such as Micro-Optics and Integrated Modules, and Dispersion Compensation. The Company's technologies allow for data to be transmitted on fiber optic networks. These technologies generate and receive wavelengths of light, increase the number of wavelengths of light that can travel on fiber optic networks, and extend the distance an optical signal can travel without electrical regeneration. Active Optical Solutions The Company's Transmission family includes products that transmit and receive signals, including laser diodes, receivers, transponders and tranceivers. The Integrated Optics family includes optical devices fabricated from lithium niobate, primarily modulators and other optical devices that manipulate the phase or magnitude of an optical signal. The Amplification family includes products that optically amplify signals. These include pump lasers, pump beam stabilizers, gain flattening filters, erbium doped fiber amplifiers, Raman amplifiers and semiconductor optical amplifiers. The Network Managed Subsystems family includes products that interface directly with other network elements using network level protocols. These products include network-managed versions of the Company's multiplexing, amplification, and switching and routing products. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2005 (fiscal 2005), the Active Optical Solutions product group accounted for 76% of Avanex's net revenue. Passive Optical Solutions Avanex's Micro-Optics and Integrated Modules product family includes products that add and drop optical wavelengths, in both fixed and reconfigurable versions, to a signal without reconversion to an electrical signal or wavelength division multiplexing, including products based on thin-film filter, fiber Bragg grating (FBG), planar and interleaver technologies. The Micro- Optics and Integrated Modules family also includes products that equalize signal power, such as dynamic gain equalizers. The Dispersion Compensation family includes products that compensate for dispersion and dispersion slope in transmission systems. This includes fixed and tunable products based on dispersion compensating fiber, cascaded etalons and FBG. During fiscal 2005, the Passive Optical Solutions product group accounted for 24% of Avanex's net revenue. The Company competes with Bookham Technology, CyOptics, DiCon Fiberoptics, Eudyna, Finisar, Fujitsu, Furukawa, Hitachi Cable, JDS Uniphase, NEC, Oplink Communications, Opnext and Optium.

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