Optical Keyhole carries new content from Avanex and Soapstone

Business Wire, August 5, 2008

LONDON -- Optical Keyhole - http://www.opticalkeyhole.com - the premier online source for information on the optical industry - is carrying a new interview with the CEO and President of Soapstone Networks, Bill Leighton. (NASDAQ: SOAP)

In the interview, Mr Leighton, discusses why a background in the router business is a good basis for positioning the company as it moves towards launching a new dynamic control plane software product for the fast-growing Carrier Ethernet market.

The interview can be found at

http://www.opticalkeyhole.com/moonlight/whatsnew.asp

Also newly released is a presentation from Rich Riffel at Avanex (NASDAQ: AVNX) where he introduces Oasis, a common optical subsytem control platform, based on an FPGA-based architecture, and claimed to be able to help shorten lead times and reduce costs in the design of customised optical solutions.

The presentation can be found at

http://www.opticalkeyhole.com/moonlight/whatsnew.asp

About Optical Keyhole:

www.opticalkeyhole.com carries an exhaustive range of interviews from the telecommunications sector, over 287 different videos, covering both presentations and facility tours, as well as CEO interviews, 50,000 different articles, in a fully searchable database, and 2000 editorials and commentaries. In addition, the website carries a host of directories covering all aspects of both present as well as past companies, with particular emphasis on the optical segment.