Oclaro Wins "Outstanding Components Vendor" Award from Light Reading

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Oclaro, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCLR), a leading provider and innovator of optical communications solutions, today announced it has won Light Reading's 2017 Leading Lights Award for the industry's "Outstanding Components Vendor." This coveted award is given to the components vendor that stands out from its competitors, innovates constantly, helps set the industry trends, makes investors proud, and makes employees happy.

"Oclaro has gone through an amazing transformation the last several years and this award demonstrates our continued ability to help customers solve their most complex problems," said Greg Dougherty, CEO of Oclaro. "Given that bandwidth requirements will continue to increase, Oclaro is well positioned in the future with the technology innovation and manufacturing power to enable our customers to drive communications networks forward, faster."

Oclaro was presented this award at an Awards dinner on May 15th in Austin, Texas as a kick off to Light Reading's Big Communications Event.

About the Light Reading Leading Lights Awards

The Leading Lights are the next-generation communications industry's most coveted honor. Light Reading's reputation for fiercely independent analysis of the people, products and companies it covers makes this the most credible and authoritative awards program in the industry. Also, because of that editorial independence, it provides telecom companies with a fantastic chance to evangelize their expertise and success. The entry process, judging and final decisions are completely independent of any other program or process run by or associated with Light Reading – every entry is judged on its own merits.

About Oclaro

Oclaro, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCLR), is a leader in optical components and modules for the long-haul, metro and data center markets. Leveraging more than three decades of laser technology innovation and photonics integration, Oclaro provides differentiated solutions for optical networks and high-speed interconnects driving the next wave of streaming video, cloud computing, application virtualization and other bandwidth-intensive and high-speed applications. For more information, visit www.oclaro.com or follow on Twitter at @OclaroInc.

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