BTI Photonic to supply metro network in Jiangsu, China

April 27, 2005 Ottawa, Canada -- BTI Photonic Systems, a provider of photonic layer, metro connectivity-over-fiber systems, has signed a distribution agreement with Effect Technologies, a reseller of communication systems in China's Jiangsu province, to implement a metro and WDM infrastructure for the province's businesses. The companies say the commercial agreement furthers BTI's inroads into China, while providing the reseller with BTI's Netstender products.

"With BTI's Netstender family of products and excellence in networking design, we are able to build a network that maximizes the use of the existing fiber assets," remarks Yin Fei, president of Effect Technologies. "Their multi-protocol approach ensures we can implement their technologies with our existing service platforms."

BTI says its Netstender platform combines active and passive plug-in modules to provide key photonic layer functions for fiber connectivity by integrating amplification, signal conditioning, multiplexing, and management in a compact, carrier-grade platform. With its open architecture and industry-standard management interfaces, the system is designed for ease of integration into existing network management systems, according to the company.