Cortina purchases Intel's optical networking components business

Cortina Systems and Intel Corporation recently announced that they have
completed the sale of product lines and associated assets of Intel's
optical-networking components business to Cortina. Cortina has emerged as a
leading supplier of advanced communications semiconductor solutions for the
carrier infrastructure market segment. The acquisition will give Cortina a large
portfolio of enterprise and infrastructure communications products and will
position it to become a leading communications semiconductor company. The sale
will enable Intel to focus its investments on its core communications and
embedded businesses, including Intel Architecture and network processors,
modular communications platforms and optical modules. The transaction closed
recently after completing regulatory review.

Cortina has purchased a broad selection of Intel's Ethernet Media Access
Controllers (MACs) and Physical Layer Devices (PHYs) portfolio, and its entire
portfolio Transport and Service Framers, Optical transport Forward Error
Correction (FEC) framers, and T1/E1 line interface products.

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