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Monday, January 17, 2011

Calumet Deploys Optical Interconnect Prototype Lab

For Immediate Release

CALUMET, MI: PCB Manufacturer - Calumet Electronics Corp. (Calumet) announces deployment of a new optical interconnect prototype lab at its production facility located in Calumet, Michigan, USA. Electronic operating systems have historically had a steadily increasing need for higher digital data transfer rates within on board components, circuit boards, and backplanes. These systems rely on increasingly complicated and time consuming measurement and data processing systems. Latencies associated with the speed at which the data can be transferred reduce the time available for the processing, and impose a limit on the overall system performance. Increasing the speed of these communications reduces these latencies, allowing more time for computation, which can often be equated with increasing the performance of the operating systems. The present state of the art interconnect systems utilize metal interconnects with limited data transmission capacity.

Calumet continues its participation with Michigan Technological University of Houghton, MI, Dow Corning Corporation of Midland, MI, and Lockheed Martin in a joint research and development program funded by the Department of Defense – NAVY, to develop manufacturing capability to produce circuit boards with optical interconnections that provide data processing solutions. "The deployment of this facility will allow us to mature optical interconnect materials and manufacturing processes that will take this critical technology from our lab to our production floor" stated Stephen Marshall, National Sales Manager at Calumet. He also stated,"We look forward to providing a Made in the USA solution for this quantum shift in interconnection technology".

About Calumet
Since 1968, Calumet's been manufacturing hi-reliability printed circuit boards. Every board is proudly built in the security of its Calumet, MI, USA facility. The company is registered as a Small Business by the SBA. Financial strength is continually rated at 4A1 by D&B. Product realization is achieved within a quality system registered to ISO9001:2000 and certified by the Department of Defense to Military Performance Specifications for Printed Circuit Boards; MIL-PRF-31032 and MIL-PRF-55110. Corporate focus hasn't changed in 40 years; provide optimum value in every board and to every relationship! At 40, Calumet remains committed to providing value beyond performance!

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