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Stratos Lightwave Announces Testing and Evaluation Services for Harsh Environment Opto Systems CHICAGO, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Stratos Lightwave LLC is announcing its new performance testing and verification services for opto-electronic products and systems used in harsh operating environments. This new testing service focuses specifically on opto-electronic equipment for military, commercial aviation, or any industrial application where a harsh operating environment is present. Stratos' optical product testing and evaluation services provide designers of these harsh-environment optical systems with a validation of proper optical performance, environmental testing, and failure analysis. Validation of proper optical performance is an analysis of the device's optical train, in order to validate its basic design. Stratos optical performance validation includes testing for optical masks and mask margins, output power, optical sensitivity, bit error rate, cross-talk, rise and fall times, jitter, noise tolerance, and much more. Environmental testing ensures that the product continues to operate properly under all specified operating conditions. Environmental testing includes shock and vibration, temperature, HALT-HASS testing, EMC/EMI/EME and EMP testing, altitude, salt fog, sand and dust, solar loading, nuclear or biohazard washdown, and other tests necessary for determining product operation under even the harshest military, commercial, or industrial conditions. Failure analysis helps engineers make the product more robust, with fewer field failures. If a product under test should fail, Stratos can determine the cause, using tools and methods such as scanning electron microscopes, wire bond pull and die shear testing, hermetic leak testing, microscopic metallurgical examination, optical anomaly mapping, and more. With this information, Stratos engineers can help customers determine what failed, why it failed, and how to fix the problem. Stratos can offer this unique combination of opto testing services because of its significant investment in specialized test equipment as well as its staff of personnel with expertise both in high-end opto design and harsh-environment applications. As a result of this equipment and expertise, Stratos counts a number of Tier 1 military and avionics firms among its clients. Stratos product testing and evaluation for harsh-environment opto systems is custom-tailored for each customer and each situation. Pricing varies widely, starting at approximately $1500 for one day of optical performance testing, under laboratory-ambient conditions. For additional information contact Steve Tebo at Stratos International, Inc., 7444 W. Wilson Ave, Chicago, IL USA 60706-4549. Phone: 800.323.6858 FAX: 708.867.4140 E-mail: URL: http://www.stratoslightwave.com/ Stratos Lightwave LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Stratos International, Inc. Stratos International, Inc. (NASDAQ:STLW) produces electronic and optical subsystems and components for high data rate networking and data storage in enterprise, telecommunications, broadcast, military and industrial applications. In the optical arena, Stratos produces optical transceivers and integrated products in a variety of data rates and communication protocols. Stratos also produces a wide range of fiber optic, RF and microwave components and cable assemblies. DATASOURCE: Stratos International, Inc. CONTACT: Steve Tebo of Stratos International, Inc., +1-708-867-9600, or PR Contact (do not publish), Wanda Arakaki of Technically Speaking Marketing, +1-847-480-7787 Web site: http://www.stratoslightwave.com/

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