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ALPHION CORPORATION ANNOUNCES ALLIANCE WITH ITI LIMITED

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Alphion GPON Product Family to be Manufactured in ITIs Rae Bareli Plant

PRINCETON JUNCTION, NEW JERSEY (November 26th, 2007) - Alphion Corporation, a

privately held company that develops, manufactures and markets communication systems, sub-systems, and integrated photonic components based on its proprietary QLight technology,

announced today its alliance with ITI Limited, India for the manufacture and distribution of its

family of GPON products.

The AOLT-4000 Optical Line Terminal (OLT) reflects the state-of-the-art in GPON OLT

equipment, with high-density 40 GPON ports per shelf, ultra-fast 200 gigabit per second

backplane, and 56 gigabit per second uplink capacity. The platform supports PON architectureswith path and equipment redundancy. The product family includes Optical Network Terminals

for single family residences (AONT-100), small businesses (AONT-200), and multiple dwelling

units (AONT-300).

This alliance with ITI Limited is an exciting step and Alphion will be able to support ITI from

our existing research, development and customer support centers in India, commented Dr.Bharat P. Dave, Alphion Chairman, President and CEO. We are looking forward to close

cooperation with ITI Limited as we begin addressing the needs for advanced FTTH networks in

Asia.

ITI will be the first Indian company to acquire GPON technology-based FTTH products and

will be manufacturing them at our Rae Bareli Plant, says Shri S K Chatterjee, Chairman and

Managing Director of ITI. The GPON equipment manufactured in Rae Bareli, besides meeting

the domestic market requirements, also has potential for overseas sales.

The collaboration between Alphion and ITI strengthens both parties, combining Alphionsexpertise in access technologies with ITIs manufacturing skills and presence in India. ITI is

acknowledged as the leading provider in India for turnkey solutions in the telecommunications

marketplace.

The Alphion AOLT-4000 and AONT-100/200/300 family were developed in full compliance

with the International Telecommunications Unions standard for FTTx equipment (ITU-T

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G.984). This ensures that the Alphion product family meets the stringent carrier-class

requirements and interoperates with a broad spectrum of other manufacturers GPON equipment.

ABOUT ALPHION

Alphion Corporation develops, manufactures and markets communications systems, subsystems,

integrated and discrete photonic components based on its proprietary QLight technology

platform. Alphion products are sold world wide to service providers and OEMs in the Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP), telecommunications, CATV, fiber optic sensing, test & measurement,

medical imaging, and defense system markets. The QLight family of products is used inpassive optical networks, wavelength management, amplification, photonic regeneration, signal

conditioning, fiber optic sensing, telecom, datacom, and storage area networking applications.

Alphion is member of both FSAN (www.fsanweb.org) - a consortium of carriers and equipmentsuppliers developing tomorrows broadband network standards and the ITU (www.itu.int). For

more information about Alphion and its products, visit our website www.alphion.com.

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