Photonics Control Announces Optical Control Breakthrough

Intelligent Photonics Control Corp. (Photonics Control), the world leader in providing embedded control solutions for optical devices, announced today that it has reached a significant milestone. The Company has integrated its solutions into 50 different customer platforms including Optical Amplifiers, VMUXes, OPMs, DGEs, and Tunable Lasers.

Ottawa, Canada (PRWEB) June 26, 2004 -- Intelligent Photonics Control Corp. (Photonics Control), the world leader in providing embedded control solutions for optical devices, announced today that it has reached a significant milestone. The Company has integrated its solutions into 50 different customer platforms including Optical Amplifiers, VMUXes, OPMs, DGEs, and Tunable Lasers.

Richard Timmons CEO of Photonics Control said: "Having our system-on-a-chip controller work flawlessly in a wide range of optical devices from different manufacturers from around the world provides dramatic evidence that our standard software and hardware platform operates as designed. Our products allow our customers to focus their scarce resources on adding more value to their products. In the end, we enable them to build new generations of equipment, faster and more economically than ever before."

According to Gary Weiner, VP of Sales and Marketing, Our customers are challenged to develop new products that require increasing levels of intelligence and sophistication. They want us to work closely with their engineering teams to provide a tool kit" approach to help deliver the integrated solutions demanded today. Photonics Control offers a simple 1-2-3 engagement process that has proven highly successful in attracting new customers and expanding product platforms with existing customers. First, they send us their optics and target specification. We then integrate, calibrate and test the device. Finally, we return the calibrated device for verification and approval. This enables our customers to move directly to mass production, providing them complete Design, Application, Manufacturing, Qualification and Reliability Data to integrate into their customer support and production programs."

We work with customers from design inception to product realization, providing smart optics they can sell to their customers in less than eight weeks. Our business is enabling customers to get reliable, high performance products into commercial production faster, and we are building a base of happy customers," Mr. Weiner concluded.
Photonics Control delivers sophisticated, intelligent and cost-effective solutions across a whole range of optical devices. Our first product was an advanced controller for Optical Amplifiers (Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifiers, Erbium Doped Waveguide Amplifiers and Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers). We have successfully extended our product lines and are now shipping best-in-class controllers for Optical Performance Monitors, Multiplexers, and are developing solutions to address Dynamic Gain Equalizers, and Wavelength Selectable Switches.

Photonics Control will demonstrate our newest technology at the Optical Society of America meeting June 27- 30 2004, in San Francisco, California. Contact us at info@photonicscontrol.com to arrange a demo.

About Photonics Control -- Bringing Intelligence to Light
Founded in September 2000, Photonics Control provides sophisticated, small footprint controllers that enable low-cost intelligent optical networks. Our products allow optical component and system manufacturers to respond effectively to todays price, performance, and footprint challenges by replacing expensive custom electronics with our standard chip set and control software. For more information, visit our web site at http://www.photonicscontrol.com, or contact us at info@photonicscontrol.com.

Contact:
David Justinich
Director of Corporate Communications
Tel: (613) 599-8821 x. 118 Cell: (613) 229-6672
davidj@photonicscontrol.com
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