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Product category: Instrument control software
News Release from: Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial Team on 17 September 2002

Acquisition of datacom test supplier

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Exfo buys multi-channel telecom and datacom testing solutions Gnubi in a deal worth between $4.3 and $7.2 million

Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering has signed an agreement to purchase substantially all the assets of Gnubi Communications, including its technology, expertise, customer base and inventories, in a stock-and-cash deal that ranges between US$4.3 million and US$7.2 million Consideration paid consists of US$2.5 million in Exfo stock, US$1.8 million in cash and a cash earn-out based upon sales volume

Gnubi is a supplier of multi-channel telecom and datacom testing solutions with an established customer base of Tier 1 optical transport equipment manufacturers and R and D labs.

The company's flexible product line enables cost-effective bit error rate testing (Bert) of Sonet/SDH and gigabit ethernet optical systems reaching data transmission rates of 10Gb/s.

The Gnubi solution, which is scalable for current and next-generation optical systems, can simultaneously test multiple communication ports in lambda routers, optical switches, cross-connects and DWDM systems (DS1 to OC-192, E1 to STM-64, GigE) on a single platform.

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