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1. About PIRI

PIRI was founded in 1987 by NTT, MC, MIC and Battele for R&D, manufacturing and sale of optical waveguide products and related components/products in the US market. With a help of technology transfer from NTT, PIRI has developed optical waveguide products and has been selling them in worldwide. By a growing demand for the broadband network, demand for PIRI's core product, AWG(Arrayed-Waveguide Grating), which is used for DWDM(Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) has expanded very rapidly and has succeeded in clearing its accumulated debt in 1997.


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Description of SDL

(a) Date of Foundation   1983
(b) Chief Officer Donald R. Scifres
(c) Location California. USA
(d) Capital 93.2M dollar
(e) Business R&D, manufacturing and sale of optical network equipment
(f)Results in 1999 Sales: 187M dollar , Net Income: 25M dollar



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