16 December, 2002 -- Opto Speed, Ruschlikon, Switzerland, and Infomax Optical Technology, Taoyuan, Taiwan, are to collaborate in development of their optoelectronic product portfolios.

Opto Speed will be able to provide its customers with its state-of-the-art, high performance Fabry-Perrot and DFB lasers as well as PIN photodetectors packaged in advanced TO cans and receiver & transmitter optical sub-assemblies.

These optical sub-assemblies can be provided to transceiver and transponder manufacturers for the full range of transmission speeds from 155Mbit/s up to 2.5Gbit/s and even 10Gbit/s.

For Infomax, the cooperation agreement allows the company to expand its product portfolio. "We are pleased to be cooperating with Opto Speed, a leading developer and manufacturer of high-value-added optoelectronic components for communications, test & measurement, medical and defence markets," explained Tien-Tsorng Shih, President of Infomax.

"The partnership with Infomax helps Opto Speed significantly broaden its capabilities to serve transceiver and transponder manufacturers with leading edge ROSAs and TOSAs", said Dr. Christoph Holtmann, marketing director of Opto Speed.

"The strong packaging expertise and low-cost packaging capability of Infomax together with our strong technology platform, talented engineering team and leading product offerings will result in high-value-added receiver and transmitter optical subassemblies at very competitive prices for our customers."