electro-mechanical and electronic manufacturing services to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of complex products such as optical communication components, modules and sub-systems. We offer a broad range of advanced optical capabilities across the entire manufacturing process, including process engineering, design for manufacturability, supply chain management, manufacturing, final assembly and test. We focus primarily on low-volume production of a wide variety of products, which we refer to as "low-volume, high-mix." Our customers include four of the six largest optical communications components companies worldwide in terms of revenue for the twelve months ended September 30, 2009, according to Ovum-RHK, a market research firm, as well as companies in other similarly complex industries that require advanced precision manufacturing capabilities, such as industrial lasers and sensors. Our customers in these industries support a growing number of end-markets, including voice and data communications, semiconductor processing, biotechnology, metrology, material processing, auto safety and medical devices.
The products that we manufacture for our customers include:
•selective switching products, such as reconfigurable optical add-drop modules (ROADMs), and optical amplifiers that collectively enable network managers to route signals through fiber traffic at various wavelengths and over various distances;
•tunable transponders and transceivers that eliminate, at a significant cost savings, the need to stock individual fixed wavelength transponders and transceivers used in voice and data communications networks;
•active optical cables providing high-speed interconnect capabilities for data centers and computing clusters, as well as Infiniband, Ethernet, fiber channel and optical backplane connectivity;
•solid state, diode-pumped and gas lasers ("industrial lasers") used across a broad array of industries, including semiconductor processing (wafer inspection, wafer dicing, wafer scribing), biotechnology (DNA sequencing, flow cytometry, hematology, antibody detection), metrology (instrumentation, calibration, inspection), and material processing (photo processing, textile cutting, annealing, marking, engraving);
•sensors, including anesthesia gas monitors that are used in medical equipment, differential pressure sensors and stabilization sensors that are used in automobiles for emission control and vehicle stability, and measurement and positioning sensors that are used in laser meters and level meters for the construction and surveying industries; and
•application-specific crystals, prisms, mirrors, laser components and substrates ("customized optics") and other custom and standard borosilicate, clear fused quartz, and synthetic fused silica glass products ("customized glass") that are either incorporated into many of the products we manufacture for our customers or sold directly in the merchant market.
As of March 26, 2010, our facilities comprised approximately 1,100,000 total square feet, including approximately 168,000 square feet of office space and approximately 932,000 square feet devoted to manufacturing and related activities, of which approximately 290,000 square feet were clean room facilities. Of the aggregate square footage of our facilities, approximately 832,000 square feet are located in Thailand and the balance is located in the PRC and the U.S.
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