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EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. announced that Germain Lamonde, chairman, president and CEO, will make a presentation today at the Lazard 2001 Optical Internet Conference on optical testing and monitoring, beginning at 2:50 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The presentation will be accessible via Web cast today in the Investors section of EXFO's Web site at www.exfo.com.
CENiX Inc., designer and automated manufacturer of high-speed optoelectronic interfaces, announced the addition of Peter Andrekson as director of Research and Systems Technologies. Andrekson is internationally known in the field of photonics research and development with 17 years of academic and industry experience. He is the author and co-author of more than 190 international scientific publications and conference papers in the area of optical communications.
Oplink Communications Inc., designer and manufacturer of optical components and integrated optical modules, announced that Oplink's passive Raman amplifier components were a key part of Xtera Communications' demonstration of multi-channel 10-Gb/s transmission using cascaded discrete Raman amplifiers in the S-band.