Press Release
Press Release
For Immediate Release
L I G H T W A V E
Aegis Lightwave Acquires AOFR
Woburn, MA, USA and Symonston, ACT, Australia March 2, 2009 Aegis Lightwave, a market leader in optical
monitoring solutions for the fiber-optics communications industry, announced today the acquisition of AOFR Pty Limited,
a subsidiary of Arasor International, Ltd. (ASX:ARR) and a leading supplier of fused fiber couplers for the
communications, test equipment, industrial, sensing, military and aerospace markets. AOFR is headquartered in
Canberra, Australia and will continue to sel products under its own brand identity.
“AOFR is recognized as a stellar brand of fiber-optic couplers in a broad range of markets,” said Jeffrey Farmer,
President and CEO, Aegis Lightwave. “This acquisition wil enable Aegis to address new, exciting and fast growing
markets. It will also enable both companies to offer a broader range of high quality products and service to our
combined set of customers.”
Aegis Lightwave and AOFR will combine their global sales and marketing channels to leverage each company’s strength
in their respective key accounts enabling the companies to provide expanded world-class service and products to
customers.
“We stand to greatly benefit from the synergies with Aegis and will continue our focus and strong customer relationships
within the fiber-optic communications market,” said Peter Jacob, Managing Director, AOFR. “We also expect that the
combination of our base technologies and expertise will broaden our product base into the fast growing fiber amplifier
and fiber laser market.”
AOFR was established in 1984 to develop and commercialize fiber-optic component technology and has developed and
sold fused fiber devices since 1988. During this period, AOFR developed unique and highly automated workstations for
manufacturing fused biconic taper (FBT) couplers, wavelength division multiplexers (WDMs), laser combiners and fiber
Bragg gratings (FBG). AOFR's superior design and packaging of fused fiber components has made AOFR one of the
leading suppliers of high-quality high-reliability fiber-optic components to worldwide markets for over two decades.
About Aegis® Lightwave, Inc.
Aegis Lightwave is a privately held company that builds cost-effective solutions for intel igent optical networks. Aegis
Lightwave offers the broadest and most cost-effective selection of optical channel monitors that are specifically designed
for reconfigurable optical networks featuring 40 and 100 Gbit/s transmission. The optical channel monitor product line is
ideal for original equipment manufacturers looking to achieve the necessary cost targets for embedded DWDM
monitoring. Aegis is backed by leading investors and venture capitalists including Vesbridge Partners, Alta Partners,
Technology Venture Partners and Megunticook Management. The company is headquartered in Woburn,
Massachusetts, USA. More information can be viewed at www.aegislightwave.com.
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Media and Analyst Contact:
Mark Lourie
Vice President of Marketing
(781) 904-4000, ext. 207
mlourie@aegislightwave.com
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