Bookham Receives Best Support Supplier Award From Huawei

Bookham Receives Best Support Supplier Award From Huawei

Shenzhen, China – 24 July 2007 – Bookham, Inc. (Nasdaq: BKHM), a leading provider of optical components, modules and subsystems, today announced that it has received the prestigious Best Support Supplier award from Huawei – one of the world’s largest telecoms equipment vendors.

The award recognizes the support Bookham has given to Huawei in 2007, including excellent service and flexible delivery to meet Huawei’s needs. Bookham supplies a wide range of its high end optical components and modules to Huawei, including 10Gb/s co-packaged laser-modulators, receivers, directly modulated lasers and optical 980nm pumps, all of which are assembled in the company’s facility in Shenzhen.

“Asia is an important market for Bookham and this award from Huawei illustrates how much we value and support our customers,” said Adrian Meldrum, VP Sales and Marketing, Bookham. “This is the third time in three years that Huawei has honored us with an award.

“At Bookham, we pride ourselves on the long-term relationships we build, and look forward to continuing to offer our customers around the world high quality, cost-effective, volume manufacturing, coupled with a differentiated product set driven from our core technology platforms.”

Bookham opened an advanced manufacturing facility in Shenzhen in March 2004. Since then, the assembly of all the company’s telecoms products has moved to China. Key quality systems and processes have been established in Shenzhen in line with the company’s best practices and global TL9000 and ISO9000:2000 registration, the effectiveness of which has been demonstrated by the selection of Bookham terrestrial pump technology for deployment in undersea networks.

Bookham now employs over 1,300 people in its Shenzhen assembly facility.

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About Bookham
Bookham, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKHM) is a global leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of optical components, modules and subsystems. The company’s optical components, modules and subsystems are used in various applications and industries, including telecommunications, data communications, aerospace, industrial and military. Since 2002, the company has acquired the optical components businesses from Nortel Networks and Marconi, as well as Ignis Optics, Inc., the business of Cierra Photonics Inc., New Focus, Inc., and Onetta, Inc. The company has manufacturing facilities in the UK, US, Canada, China and Switzerland; and offices in the US, UK, Canada, France and Italy and employs approximately 2000 people worldwide.

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