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Acacia Communications Demonstrates AC1200 Coherent Module for DCI, Metro and Long-Haul ApplicationsMAYNARD, Mass., March 13, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Acacia Communications (NASDAQ:ACIA), a leading provider of high-speed coherent optical interconnect products, today announced it is demonstrating its AC1200 Coherent Module at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC) taking place March 11 - March 15, 2018 at the San Diego Convention Center. Acacia’s AC1200 module has been designed to offer flexible features to address a wide range of network applications, advanced monitoring to enable intelligent networks and improved performance to reduce network operating costs. Acacia’s AC1200 module supports transmission speeds of up to 1.2 Tbps in a footprint that is 40% less than the size of the 5” x 7” modules supporting transmission speeds of 400 Gbps today. It is based on Acacia’s Pico digital signal processor (DSP) ASIC, which is operating at 600 Gbps transmission speed, using 64QAM modulation for the demonstration, and utilizes two wavelengths that can be configured to support from 100 Gbps to 600 Gbps capacity each. Acacia’s AC1200 module supports a suite of advanced three-dimensional (3D) shaping features that may be optimized to enable performance approaching theoretical limits on a wide range of network configurations. 3D shaping allows fine-tune adjustment of the modulation characteristics to provide network operators with the flexibility to customize the AC1200 transmission to their network requirements. The key features enabling 3D-shaping include:
Acacia’s AC1200 module supports security encryption and a wide range of host interfaces designed to reduce or eliminate the need for costly external devices. The module features a software control interface that streamlines the integration and allows customers to more quickly take advantage of this highly flexible solution. Acacia recently shipped its first customer samples and anticipates production to begin in the second half of 2018. The high capacity, enhanced performance, and rich feature set help to position Acacia’s AC1200 to enable carriers and content providers to meet their growing bandwidth demands. Meet Acacia at OFC About Acacia Communications Forward Looking Statements This press release includes statements concerning Acacia Communications and its future expectations, plans and prospects that constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. For this purpose, any statements contained herein that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Without limiting the foregoing, the words “may,” “should,” “expects,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “could,” “intends,” “target,” “projects,” “contemplates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential,” “will” or “continue” or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Acacia Communications has based these forward-looking statements largely on its current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that the company believes may affect its business, financial condition and results of operations. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions including, without limitation, the company’s anticipated growth strategies, its expectations regarding competition, the anticipated trends and challenges in its business and the market in which Acacia Communications operates, including those that may affect its customers and their demand for Acacia Communications’ products, including its AC1200 product, the size and growth of the potential markets for its products and the ability to serve those markets, its expectations regarding, and the stability and quality control of, its supply chain and manufacturing, the scope, progress, expansion and costs of developing and commercializing its products, regulatory developments in the United States and foreign countries, including under export control laws or regulations that could impede its ability to sell its products to customers in certain foreign jurisdictions, and other risks set forth under the caption “Risk Factors” in the company’s public reports filed with the SEC, including the company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017 filed with the SEC and in other filings that the Company may make with the SEC in the future. Acacia Communications assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this press release as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. For further information: Public Relations Contact: Investor Relations Contact: Lindsay Savarese |