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	April 2008 VPIlinkConfigurator Version 3.0 released! Sign up to evaluate Version 3.0 NOW! (more)
	February 2008 San Diego VPIphotonics at OFC/NFOEC 2008 Feature presentations, live product demonstrations of VPItransmissionMaker Version 7.6, VPIlinkConfigurator Version 2.5 and free VPIplayer CD. Visit us at Booth 2925! (more)
	February 2008 Berlin, Kista (Sweden) VPIphotonics and Acreo announce renewed partnership in photonics numerical modelling and component characterization.(more)
	December 2007 VPItransmissionMaker & VPIcomponentMaker Version 7.6 released! Sign up to evaluate Version 7.6 NOW! (more)
	October 2007 Orlando VPIphotonics at Milcom 2007 Feature presentations and live product demonstrations of VPItransmissionMaker Version 7.5 at Booth 1135!
	September 2007 Berlin VPI joins the CELTIC initiative 100GET VPIphotonics partners in the 100GET project (100 Gigabit Ethernet Transport Technologies), which brings together Industry and University to develop high-performance and cost-effective solutions for 100-Gigabit Ethernet Networks.
	September 2007 Berlin VPIphotonics at ECOC 2007 Feature presentations, live product demonstrations of VPItransmissionMaker Version 7.5 and a free CD at Booth 13016! (more)
	August 2006 Tool makers stay flexible In the electronics arena, engineers consider electronic design automation (EDA) tools indispensable for chip design. (more)
	November 2005 Berlin, Germany VPIphotonics joins BERLIN-ACCESS consortium VPIphotonics, a division of VPIsystems, partners with research and industry in the BERLIN-ACCESS project. Goal of the project (co-financed by the Zukunftsfonds Berlin) is to develop cost-effective solutions for fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks.
	September 2005 Berlin, Germany VPIphotonics joins EIBONE consortium VPIphotonics, a division of VPIsystems, partners with research and industry in the EIBONE (Efficient Integrated Backbone) project. Goal of the project (co-financed by the German ministry for Research and Development) is to define the standards for robust and efficient Next-Generation Networks (NGN).
	February 2004 Los Angeles Harris Chooses VPI for Testing Harris Corporation is using new software models from VPIphotonics to help customers to quickly analyze the benefits of the company's digital transponder technology for reaches of up to 200km on standard single-mode fiber.
	February 2004 Los Angeles New VPI software suite links to Agilent test equipment VPI has launched a suite of software tools that merge real and virtual photonic component and system prototypes. The tools transfer results from Agilent test and measurement equipment to VPI's simulation software to accurately characterize all of the equipment along the transmission link.
	September 2003 Real and virtual worlds combine to speed network design The convergence of real and virtual prototyping has shortened design cycles for development of a customer's system at Confluent, while avoiding costly network experiments and improving confidence in the reliability of the system architecture. The case study uses an interface between the Agilent all-photonic analyzer and VPI software to measure DWDM component and subsystem parameters and translate them into the qualitative figures of network performance.
	March 2003 VPI Player, Tool or Toy VPIphotonics last week announced a development at the OFC Conference that could mark the beginning of big changes in the way engineers design optical subsystems. The development is some free software, called VPIplayer, that allows designers to simulate the performance of the subsystems they're designing. It works like Adobe Systems Inc.'s Acrobat Reader, in that it reads "dynamic data sheets" - small computer files that define the performance characteristics of components, created by component suppliers using VPI design software.
	March 2003 Agilent, VPI Team on Prototyping VPI and Agilent Technologies announced that they will demonstrate the merging of real and virtual prototypes at OFC 2003 by linking the Agilent 81910A photonic all-parameter analyzer to VPI’s award-winning simulation software. In the live demonstrations, the 81910A will measure loss, group delay, Differential Group Delay (DGD) and Polarization Dependent Loss (PDL) data from a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) multi-channel dispersion compensator, transfer the results to VPItransmissionMaker™ and investigate how a prototype from Redfern Optical Components can reduce dispersion penalty for any link length.
	November 2002 VPIphotonics™ Link Configurator wins 2002 Lightwave NFOEC Award VPIlinkConfigurator™ - received the most votes in the Design Tools category of the 2002 Lightwave NFOEC Attendees Choice Awards. Lightwave Editorial Director Stephen Hardy said the award recognizes achievement in the eyes of the people who matter most, those who buy and use optical components and design tools.
	October 2002 Yield Estimation: Photonic Design Automation Takes the Challenge Photonics is moving rapidly from the research stage to mass low-cost manufacturing and yield estimation and optimization is critical to profitability. New yield-estimation features in VPItransmissionMaker™ capture the design process, from initial topology synthesis, through performance mapping by multidimensional sweeps, to parameter optimzation and then yield estimation and yield optimization.
	September 2002 VPIsystems new business division. VPIsystems™ has established a new business division, VPIphotonics™ to advance Photonic Design Automation (PDA) software and solutions for optical component, system and equipment vendors. VPIsystems CEO Kay Iversen says VPIphotonics will focus the substantial PDA expertise and resources inside VPIsystems on the growing needs of the vendor community. "To achieve this, the new division will expand applications relevance from the exchange of virtual prototypes by R&D experts, to widespread use of prototypes, design rules and real world scenarios to support the deployment of photonic equipment in the legacy infrastructure."