Oclaro Receives Huawei Quality Excellence Award

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oclaro, Inc.™ (Nasdaq: OCLR), a provider of optical components, modules and subsystems, today announced that it has received the Quality Excellence Award from Huawei – one of the world's leading manufacturers of equipment for the telecommunications industry.  The award was received by SC Lim, Vice President of Oclaro Asia Operations, at the 2010 Huawei Supplier Quality Conference.

The award was given to Oclaro based on outstanding quality performance for 2009. Oclaro's delivery of high performance, highly reliable products, along with excellent customer service, were the key factors in winning this designation by Huawei. Oclaro was one of only two optical component suppliers to receive this award.

"Huawei holds its suppliers to the highest quality standards so we are particularly gratified by this award," said Jim Haynes, Oclaro, Chief Operating Officer.  "Vertical integration of core technologies and a focus on systems and processes provides the control we need to deliver world class product and service quality. With this combination, and the quality of our Shenzhen and various manufacturing facilities, we can meet the needs of our customers around the world."

Oclaro ensures the highest quality standards are implemented throughout its advanced in-house and outsourced manufacturing facilities worldwide. By leveraging its core technologies with the high quality standards in manufacturing, Oclaro is an industry leader in developing best-in-class products. Oclaro supplies a wide range of its high end optical components and modules to Huawei in line with the company's best practices and global ISO9000:2000 registration.

About Oclaro

Oclaro, Inc., with headquarters in San Jose, Calif., is a tier-one provider of high-performance optical components, modules and subsystems to the telecommunications market, and is one of the largest providers to metro and long-haul network applications. The Company, formed on April 27, 2009 following the combination of Bookham, Inc. and Avanex Corporation, leverages proprietary core technologies and vertically integrated product development to provide its customers with cost-effective and innovative optical devices, modules and subsystems. Oclaro serves a broad customer base, combining in-house and outsourced manufacturing to maximize flexibility and drive improved gross margin. Its photonic technologies also serve selected high-growth markets, including industrial, defense, life sciences, medical and scientific, with diversification providing both significant revenue streams and strategic technological advantage. The Company also provides a complete family of wavelength selective switches (WSS) capable of powering reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) applications over the entire optical network, from the edge to the core.

Oclaro is a global company, with cutting-edge chip fabrication facilities in the U.K., Switzerland and Italy, and manufacturing sites in the U.S., Thailand, China and South Korea.

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