C&M Chooses Reflex Photonics as Partner for Specialized Optical Cabling Solutions

Custom cable manufacturer to integrate high-speed optical engines
to further advance active optical cable product line

Mountain View, Calif. (June 17, 2008) - Reflex Photonics, an advanced developer of extreme high-speed optical connectivity solutions for semiconductor packaging and data transfer applications, announced that it will partner with C&M Corporation, a vertically integrated manufacturer of custom cable, coil cords and cable assemblies, to further develop customized optical cabling solutions for high end robotics, audio visual (A/V), government supercomputing, datacom, medical, industrial and military applications.

Terms of the agreement state that C&M will integrate its custom active optical cables (AOC) with Reflex Photonics’ state of the art LightABLE™ Optical Engines: compact, pre-aligned encapsulated modules initially providing four independent transmit and receive channels, with each channel initially capable of 5 Gbps of operation for an aggregate Infiniband DDR supporting bandwidth of 20 Gbps over 300 meters of optical fiber.

“After an extensive search to find the right technology partner, Reflex Photonics and its LightABLE optical engines proved to be a perfect fit for our specialized cabling solutions, as they can withstand the harshest external operating conditions including temperature, humidity and EMI interference,” said Joseph Iamartino, vice president of business development at C&M. “Active optical assemblies incorporate the best features of copper and fiber interconnect solutions and have been sought by robotic and industrial automation specialists for years. We look forward to meeting their technology requests with a family of rugged, ultra-reliable hybrid cabling products. Reflex’s optical engines offer the exact level of reliability needed for such solutions, and we are very excited to see them integrated with our existing products and look forward to developing even more advanced solutions with them in the future.”

Because of their high functionality and feature integration, including a two-wire serial interface, the LightABLE optical engines offer the most practical solution for DDR/SDR InfiniBand™, 10 Gigabit Ethernet CX4/XAUI extender, 4 x OC-48 SONET, multi-lane PCI-Express, 10 Gigabit Fibre Channel and proprietary backplane interconnections. Future products are expected to support QDR Infiniband.

“We are very pleased and honored to work with such a unique and inventive company like C&M. Their innovative and customized cabling solutions, which are applicable to a wide variety of customers, will be further powered by our parallel optical engines,” said Gary Moskovitz, president and CEO, Reflex Photonics. “This is an outstanding opportunity for our solutions to benefit different vertical markets, such as the high flex industrial, medical and military industries.”

Reflex Photonics chief technology officer Dave Rolston and Joseph Iamartino of C&M will give a joint presentation on this technology at the NY Tech Summit on June 20 at Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona, New York.

About Reflex Photonics

Founded in 2002, Reflex Photonics is an advanced developer of extreme high-speed optical connectivity solutions for semiconductor packaging and data transfer applications. Through the integration of its unique and proprietary LightABLE™ core technology, Reflex Photonics focuses on both inter printed circuit board applications, with its InterBOARD® product line of parallel modules and active optical cables, as well as intra pc board and "fiber to the chip package" applications, using its Light On Board® optically-enabled semiconductor packaging solutions. The company addresses the growing demand for high-speed interconnects in enterprise-class storage/server environments and telecom-class switches/routers, enabling equipment developers to design smaller, lower cost and lower powered systems that result in higher fidelity and faster connectivity.

InterBOARD™, LightABLE™, Light on Board™, Reflex Photonics and the Reflex Photonics logo are trademarks of Reflex Photonics Inc.

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