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MRV Customer Optimum Lightpath Receives Business Communication Services Product of the Year Award from Frost & Sullivan

^{Published on 2009-01-27 09:23:30, Last Modified on 2009-01-27 09:24:44 - Market Wire}
 

CHATSWORTH, Calif.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--MRV COMMUNICATIONS, INC. (Nasdaq: MRVC), a leading provider of products and services for out-of-band networking, WDM and optical transport, metro Ethernet, fiber optic components, 10GE and other service aware networking products, today announced its customer, Optimum Lightpath, has won an industry award for a service supported by MRV's HD-SDI SFP product.

Frost & Sullivan presents its 2009 Product of the Year award for Business Communication Services to Optimum Lightpath for its new Lightpath Managed Video Service. Lightpath Managed Video is a complete video service, providing video transport as well as encoding and decoding. The connectivity is a one-way simplex service that electronically accepts transports and delivers native compressed and uncompressed digital video in common industry formats, including ASI, SDI and HD-SDI. It also includes a fully redundant protected connection for superior resiliency and reliability.

"Optimum Lightpath's managed video service is a unique digital broadcast solution that leverages the cost-effectiveness and ubiquity of Ethernet," said Roopashree Honnachari, Senior Industry Analyst with Frost & Sullivan. "As networks converge to IP and video files increase in size, leveraging bandwidth becomes increasingly critical, and the HD-SDI format enables broadcast quality transfer of larger video files over simple Ethernet with a fully redundant protected transport connection path for unsurpassed resiliency and reliability."

"Digital has been the direction of the video market for quite some time, and MRV boasts one of the only solutions that can provide the data rate necessary for long distance fiber transport of bandwidth-intensive HD signal," said Noam Lotan, president and CEO of MRV Communications. "We congratulate Optimum Lightpath on receiving this prestigious award."

"MRV's HD pluggable optical module's compatibility with standards-based optical transport equipment enables our transport architecture to support uncompressed HDTV signals effortlessly over varied network environments," said Dave Pistacchio, general manager of Optimum Lightpath. "This has been a solid relationship for us, and we thank MRV for their contribution to this award and continued support of our innovative video solution."

Lightpath Managed Video Service is purpose-built to directly address the needs of the media sector, including production facilities, broadcasters, television stations and content distributors, as well as non-media organizations, such as healthcare facilities, municipalities and enterprises with high-resolution "broadcast quality" video requirements, such as security surveillance and video conferencing. The new offering utilizes the advantages of carrier-class Ethernet's resiliency to packet loss and jitter, say company representatives. Additionally, the service does not require any transport protocol conversions.

MRV's Digital Video SFPs use a patent-pending encoding algorithm based on the EG-34 industry standard to overcome the "pathological" signal types that are common with HDTV signals, and which can't be interpreted by enterprise-class optical networking equipment. They can enable transport of uncompressed SDI (SMPTE 259M and 344M) and HD-SDI (SMPTE 292M) data over an optical network using off the shelf optics. Because they are SFPs, the MRV Digital Video SFPs can be installed in fiber optic systems from a wide variety of manufacturers including optical cross connects and wave division multiplexers, which have adopted this MSA transceiver standard.

About MRV Communications, Inc.

MRV Communications, Inc. ("MRV") is a leading provider of network equipment and services, and optical components. MRV's networking business provides equipment used by commercial customers, governments and telecommunications service providers, and includes switches, routers, physical layer products and out-of-band management products as well as specialized networking products for aerospace, defense and other applications including voice and cellular communication. MRV's optical components business provides optical communications components for metropolitan, access and Fiber-to-the-Premises applications, through its wholly owned subsidiary SourcePhotonics, Inc. MRV markets and sells its products worldwide through a variety of channels, including a dedicated direct sales force, manufacturers' representatives, value-added-resellers, distributors and systems integrators. MRV also has operations in Europe that provide network system design, integration and distribution services that include products manufactured by third-party vendors, as well as internally developed and manufactured products. Publicly traded since 1992, MRV is listed on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol MRVC. For more information about MRV and its products, please call (818) 773-0900 or visit our websites at [ www.mrv.com ] and [ www.sourcephotonics.com ].