Highland Communications Technologies Licenses 2.5 Gbps GPON FEC core to Applied Optoelectronics

FORT ERIE, CANADA -- June 25, 2007 --Applied Optoelectronics Inc. (AOI) of the USA (www.ao-inc.com) licensed a 2.5 Gbps GPON FEC core from Highland Communications Technologies. Founded in 1997, with a world-class team of researchers and engineers and state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment, AOI is a leading-edge component provider for Fiber to the Home communication systems. With the Internet traffic moving from data centric to media centric, requirements for bandwidth are becoming more and more demanding. Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) is quickly becoming the next dominant broadband solution. Component providers and system manufacturers are striving to bring a cost effective solution to the market. With the customer-proven GPON FEC core from Highland Communications Technologies, AOI will be able to shorten the time to market of their product considerably.

About Highland Communications Technologies

Highland Communications Technologies is a company specializing in the digital signal processing technologies in communications and related areas. Our products are semiconductor IP cores and software modules. They can be easily integrated into system on chip designs and software systems to improve the productivity of our customers. Cutting edge technology and customer satisfaction are our focus. All our products are developed based on extensive research to take advantage of the technology advancement. Our one year warranty provides full support to guarantee a smooth integration of our products