Lucent, Corning Team on 40-Gig

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- OFC 2002 -- Lucent Technologies(NYSE:LU) and Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) today announced a collaboration todramatically improve the performance of optical long-haul systems with optical fiber properties that will enableservice providers to continue to lower overall transport and operational costs. Corning, the world's leading manufacturer of opticalfiber, and Lucent are working to deliver longer reach at increasing data rates for both long-haul and ultralong-haul networks. The work will initially focus on the use of Corning's LEAF® fiber, the world's leading non-zerodispersion-shifted fiber (NZ-DSF) with Lucent Technologies new LambdaXtreme™ Transport, a dense wavedivision multiplexing (DWDM) ultra long-haul and ultra high-capacity system. Further optimization of LambdaXtreme™ Transport withCorning's next-generation prototype dispersion-managed fiber (DMF) solution will allow thesystem to dramatically increase 40 Gb/s distance rates. DMF technology, which can be seen at OFC inCorning booth #3021, combines two or more fibers in a transmission span to deliver broadband dispersioncompensation across the entire operating window without the use of externally compensating modules.Initial lab simulations have shown a 50 percent reach improvement over traditional fiber types, extending thesystem's reach to more than 2,000 kilometers.Corning Inc. Lucent Technologies Inc.For more information on OFC 2002, please visit: www.nottheofc.com