Pulsecom Announces Record Optical Shipments

HERNDON, VIRGINIA, January 18, 2005. — Pulsecom (www.pulse.com, a subsidiary of Hubbell Incorporated NYSE: HUBA, HUBB) today announced record shipments of its O3D3 optical DS3 transport product. When first introduced in 2001, the O3D3 was disruptive technology. 90% smaller and 90% less expensive than traditional SONET multiplexers, the product was a natural way to cut DSL rollout costs. It fit in Remote Terminals, used negligible power and supported ATM transport over fiber links already in use.

Since that time, O3D3 economics and ease of use have made the family a natural for DS3 business circuits, distance learning, cell site transport, cell site lightning protection, fiber up the riser applications and, most recently, initial IPTV rollouts.

“We designed the O3D3 to plug into existing T1 Smart Jack mountings and to eliminate traditional SONET provisioning headaches,” according to Bruce Lipski, a Pulsecom Principal Engineer. “One RBOC Manager claimed it's 'the simplest, easiest to use unit I have ever seen.' With thousands of O3D3s in the field, it looks like our customers are beginning to believe in the parallels between Smart Jacks for T1 circuits and the O3D3 for DS3s.”

Pulsecom manufactures the O3D3 in its high volume Virginia facility.