SALIRA OPTICAL NETWORK SYSTEMS SELECTS IKANOS COMMUNICATIONS FXTM CHIPSETS FOR FIBER EXTENSION OVER COPPER

Fx Programmable Chipsets to Extend FTTx Services at up to 100 Mbps over Copper

Fremont, Calif., May 25th, 2004—Ikanos Communications, developer of Smart Silicon for Profitable Broadband, today announced Salira Optical Network Systems has selected Ikanos’ Fx programmable chipsets for use in its high-speed Salira 2000 EPON platform. Salira is a leading Passive Optical Network (PON) systems provider and the number one Ethernet over PON (EPON) provider in China. Ikanos Fx chipsets enable Salira to develop line cards to extend fiber-based services at up to 100 Mbps over a single copper pair. With the Fx based system, carriers can deploy fiber to the neighborhood, curb, or building and take advantage of last-mile copper to affordably deliver voice, video and high-speed data directly to the customer site.

“Ikanos delivers the highest bandwidth and the most aggressive delivery schedule,” said Rick Li, Chief Operating Officer for Salira. “The Fx fiber extension chipset not only ensures superior value and performance for our carrier customers, but it will enable us to deliver a universal standards-based platform with an extremely powerful range of options. By providing a means to extend FTTx services via copper, we give carriers a pragmatic way to deliver very affordable services at greatly accelerated deployment schedules.”

“Salira has distinguished itself as an industry innovator in a very high-growth market,” said Rajesh Vashist, president and CEO for Ikanos Networks. “We look forward to working with Salira to provide high-performance service platforms that offer exceptional carrier value and flexibility.”

Ikanos products include:
The FxTM Family of Chipsets for Fiber Extension Over Copper Markets
Fx 10050TM and Fx 7030TM chipsets for Optical Network Units, Optical Line Terminals ONU/OLT, switches, routers and concentrators.
Fx 10050STM Subscriber Located Equipment (SLE) for Optical Network Terminals (ONTs). The SmartLeapTM Family of Chipsets for VDSL over Copper Markets
SmartLeap 8100™ and SmartLeap 8800™ A/VDSL for DSLAMs and Central Office (CO) to Remote Terminal (RT) deployments. Integrates VDSL-DMT and Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) in a single programmable chipset solution.
CleverConnect™ 300 for Customer Premise Equipment (CPE)

About Ikanos Communications
Founded in 1999 and based in the Silicon Valley, Ikanos Communications develops and markets highly programmable chipsets that exceed 100 Mbps over a single copper pair. Ikanos’ silicon solutions enable access equipment vendors to serve many different customers while slashing time to market and lowering development, manufacturing, and inventory costs.
Ikanos is the first mover in the Fiber Extension over Copper market and was the first to introduce VDSL-DMT over Copper in a high port density solution. To date, Ikanos’ technology is deployed in the world’s largest and most advanced carrier networks throughout Japan, Korea and in Europe.
Ikanos’ offerings encompass silicon, embedded software, The Ikanos Programmable Operating System (iPOS), full reference designs, high-level APIs, and extensive documentation. Ikanos contributes actively to public standards development by way of its membership, and leadership, in ATIS Committee T1E1, IEEE 802.3, the DSL Forum, TTC (Japan) and the ITU-T. For additional information about Ikanos, please visit the web site at www.ikanos.com or contact, Jeannette Bitz at Engage PR, jbitz@engagepr.com, 1.510.748.8200 ext. 207.

About Salira Optical Network Systems, Inc.
Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Salira builds broadband systems that are used to deliver advanced voice, video and data services to business and residential customers. Salira’s systems give carriers the ability to offer traditional TDM services and advanced IP-based broadband services in one integrated, cost-effective system. Salira Shanghai, Ltd., a subsidiary of Salira, performs manufacturing, R&D and customer support functions, and has responsibility for marketing and sales in the Asia Pacific region.