08/13/2007
Cortina Systems:
"CORTINA CONTINUES ASIA-PACIFIC REGION EXPANSION"
Sunnyvale, Calif., August 13, 2007 — Cortina Systems® (Cortina), one of the fastest-growing suppliers of intelligent communications solutions for network equipment manufacturers, today announced the opening of offices in Hong Kong and Korea. Cortina is committed to working closely with global equipment manufacturers andservice providers to deliver market-leading products and services to further improve their time-to-market. The new offices will expand Cortina’s ability to provide local sales, technical support and professional services for customers in the Asia-Pacific region. “Asia-Pacific is increasingly becoming a strategic investment region for Cortina due to our growing customer base and supply chain partners here,” said Bruce Margetson, CFO of Cortina. “Leveraging the highly talented workforce in Hong Kong and Korea will allow us to closely align with our customers and provide the best support and products for their success.” Cortina’s recent acquisition of ImmenStar, along with its technology leadership, is enabling significant growth for the company in the Asia-Pacific region. Cortina leads the industry in mixed-signal, high density, low power ICs, 10Gbps packet data framing, high-density Ethernet aggregation technology, optical FECs, and TDM and 10/100 PHYs. In September 2006, Cortina acquired Intel’s Optical Networking Division, increasing its product portfolio to more than 300 products with tens of millions of units shipped annually. Cortina’s Hong Kong office is located at Cortina Systems (HK) Ltd., 1204, Admiralty Centre, Tower I, 18 Harcourt Road, Admiralty, Hong Kong, Tel: +852 34123123 Cortina’s Korea office is located at Cortina Systems (Korea) Limited, Parkview Suite#1007, 6 Jeongja-Dong, Boondang-Gu, Seongnam, Kyeonggi 463-863 Korea Tel: +82 (31) 783-3766