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Luxtera's Award-Winning 40 Gbps Active Optical Cables Now Available at ColfaxDirect.com

Optical interconnect solution for HPC clusters and enterprise data centers

Sunnyvale, Calif. – May 11, 2010 - Colfax International, a leading, international provider of hardware and software for the high-performance computing ecosystem, and Luxtera Inc., the world leader in Silicon CMOS Photonics, today announced that Luxtera's 40 Gigabit Active Optical Cable (AOC), Blazar is now available for purchase through ColfaxDirect.com. Available in distances spanning from 1 to 4000 meters, Blazar offers high performance and extended reach optical interconnect at lower cost than legacy multimode fiber.

"We offer our customers only the highest quality HPC products and services at the best prices," said Gautam Shah, CEO, Colfax International. "We are delighted to team up with Luxtera, a trusted provider of high performance optical interconnect solution."

By utilizing Luxtera's breakthrough Silicon CMOS Photonics technology, Blazar delivers best in class performance in terms of low power, low latency, low bit error rate, long reach, small cable bend radius, high reliability and low weight. By eliminating constraints associated with copper cables and traditional VCSEL optics, Blazar enables flexible layouts of data centers and high performance computing clusters.

“By collaborating with Colfax our products can be delivered to customers as part of a complete data center solution,” said Marek Tlalka, vice president of marketing for Luxtera. “Using Luxtera’s silicon photonics transceiver technology, along with single-mode fiber transmission media, Colfax is able to offer a cost-effective cabling solution that delivers high performance connectivity as well as increased reliability and extended distance.”

Product Details and Availability
Blazar (LUX5010) is a 40 Gbps Active Optical Cable assembly containing four complete fiber optic transceivers per end, each operating at data rates from 1 to 10.3125 Gbps and supporting a reach up to 4,000 meters. The cable is available in a number of standard lengths up to 300 meters and custom lengths up to 4,000 meters.

Blazar offers customers the flexibility of traditional optical modules by interfacing to systems via a standard QSFP MSA connector. The cable is electrically compliant with the SFP+ interface supporting InfiniBand, Ethernet, Fibre Channel and other applications. Optical transceivers are permanently attached to the fiber, shielding the optical interface from environmental contaminants and protecting it from damage during installation.

All the products are immediately available.

About Colfax International
Founded in 1987, Colfax International is a leading provider of customized workstations, servers, clusters, storage, and personal supercomputing solutions. ColfaxDirect.com is the e-tailing division of Colfax International, providing the highest quality products and services for the high performance computing (HPC) ecosystem. Colfax International is based in Sunnyvale, California and is privately held. For more information, please visit www.colfaxdirect.com.

About Luxtera
Luxtera, Inc. is the world leader in Silicon CMOS Photonics. It is the first company to overcome the complex technical obstacles involved with integrating high performance optics directly with silicon electronics on a mainstream CMOS chip, bringing direct “fiber to the chip” connectivity to market. With its award-winning Blazar active optical cable and optics on motherboard OptoPHY transceiver family Luxtera is breaking cost barriers associated with traditional multimode optics and offers a roadmap to high performance optical connectivity and copper cost points. Headquartered in Carlsbad, California, Luxtera is a fabless semiconductor company that was founded in 2001 by a team of industry-renowned researchers and technology managers drawn from the communications and semiconductor industries. Luxtera has received funding from leading venture capitalists including August Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Sevin Rosen Funds and Lux Capital.

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