Editorial Contacts:
Abe Queller, Lynx Photonic Networks, Inc. +1-866-465-9697, aqueller@LynxPN.com
Leeor Tal, Lynx Photonic Networks, Ltd. +972-3-915-5010, ltal@LynxPN.com

For Immediate Release

LynxPN Delivers Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON) Protection for Major Spanish Telco Across South America

Woodland Hills Calif. April 7, 2009 -- Lynx Photonic Networks, a leading provider of fiber networks high availability and survivability equipment, announced today wide deployment of its intelligent LightLEADER network protection systems across a major Spanish Telco’s fiber optic networks in Guatemala, Chile, Brazil and Peru.
LynxPN’s LightLEADER protection systems provide the carrier with guaranteed protection of its critical fiber backbone, connecting Europe and the U.S to South-America. By protecting the terrestrial segments of the inter- and cross-continental link, this major carrier can offer reliable, high quality services to its wholesale customers worldwide.

"The deployment of our protection systems in this network backbone marks our entry into the fast growing telecom market in Latin America," adds Abe Queller, Lynx vice president. "This contract illustrates the increasing demand for fiber network survivability in global networks and, with it, the increasing importance of optical protection-switching systems. Lynx is well positioned to capitalize on its market leadership in this field and further expand its sales.”

About Lynx’s LightLEADER-4000
LightLEADER-4000 is a modular, carrier-class optical protection platform, designed to handle all high availability and survivability needs of carriers’, service providers’ and large enterprises’ fiber optic networks. The versatile NEBS/ETSI compliant add-on platform features redundant power supply and control modules along with a family of plug-in optical modules to protect against wide spectrum of fiber network survivability applications such as: fiber cable-cut protection, wavelength or optical-service protection, DWDM link (trunk) protection, equipment protection, local and distributed protection aggregation, dual homing protection and optical bypass switching. Furthermore, LightLEADER’s bidirectional fiber protection solution is fully qualified for IBM’s industry-leading solution for enterprise continuous availability and disaster recovery; GDPS Sysplex Timer links.

About Lynx Photonic Networks
Lynx specializes in fiber network survivability and business continuity solutions and an innovator of solid-state light management technology.
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More information is available from Lynx Photonic Networks, 6303 Owensmouth Avenue Woodland Hills, CA 91367, USA, Telephone: 866-GoLynxPN (866-465-9697), +1-818-936-3557 (International) or on the Web at www.LynxPN.com