Campinas, August 13th, 2009.

LightPad i1600G Platform, the company's leading solution for optical transport based on WDM technology, was homologated by public institutions of research and education in Mexico City, UAM and UNAM.

The Universities homologated the equipment for the "DELTA Metropolitana de Supercómputo" network, a project that aims to create an optical infrastructure interconnecting the UAM, the UNAM and the CINVESTAV, all associated to the Corporación Universitaria para el Desarrollo de Internet (CUDI) (University Corporation for Internet Development). CUDI is a non-profit civil association that manages the national research and education network in Mexico and whose mission is to promote the development of the Internet in the country.

With the homologation, Padtec will be among the select group of manufacturers able to provide optical transport solutions for the DELTA network.

Partnership with research networks is a long tradition in the company, which already has equipment installed in important Latin American education and research networks as, for example, the Clara Network in Chile and Argentina, the first Latin American research and education network connected to Europe, and the Kyatera network in Brazil, which connects researchers in the State of São Paulo to other networks abroad.