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IPG Photonics Corporation today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Menara Networks, Inc., an innovator of enhanced optical transmission modules and systems, allowing IPG to offer more integrated telecom solutions and expanding IPG's current telecom product offerings. Menara's products are deployed in leading cable multi-system operators (MSOs), carriers and data centers in North America and in selected international networks.
The acquisition provides IPG entry into the growing optical pluggable systems market and leverages IPG's international market access outside North America. The combination provides IPG with its own mixed signal ASIC proprietary designs that Menara is vertically integrating into advanced 100G/400G software-defined, flexible and configurable coherent DWDM transceiver modules. It expands IPG's telecom systems product offerings for 100G/400G markets with strong performance, cost advantaged, and accelerated time-to-market...