Corning Adds Public Safety Solution to Optical Network Evolution (ONE(TM))

CORNING, NY--(Marketwired - May 02, 2016) -   Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) and Fiber-Span Inc., a leader in wireless coverage systems for commercial and public safety markets, today announced an agreement to offer Fiber-Span's in-building public safety distributed antenna system (DAS) as part of the Corning Optical Network Evolution (ONE™) platform.

Fiber-Span's public safety DAS is a comprehensive fiber optic wireless solution for police, fire, emergency, first responder and Homeland Security radio system applications.

The technology delivers clear, clean, and distortion-free transmission and distribution of critical communication information, including wireless voice, data, and video. It supports all public safety bands, including VHF/UHF/700/800/900/TETRA, and meets International Fire Code (IFC) and National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) requirements.

Corning's ONE platform is the first all-optical solution to converge multiple wired and wireless technologies, including passive optical local area network (PON), Wi-Fi and cellular DAS, into a single, unified infrastructure. When deployed together, Fiber-Span's public safety DAS can leverage ONE's fiber backbone to set up a separate, parallel antenna system that differentiates authority of network operation, maintenance and alarm monitoring/service; and enables network design flexibility, while reducing the cost of overall deployment.

"The Corning ONE converged infrastructure leverages dedicated fibers for voice, video, data, and unlimited applications -- like public safety -- all in one composite cable that supports nearly every connectivity need," said Mike O'Day, vice president, Wireless Networks, Corning. "This flexible, scalable design strategy enables the delivery of secure, cost-effective, and efficient public safety coverage, without sacrificing the performance of any other network applications."

Alfred F. Boschulte, CEO of Fiber-Span, said, "We are pleased to be working with Corning to ensure first responders have robust mission-critical communications they need, while giving cellular carriers the performance they want to achieve -- at an attractive cost for building operators."

For more information, please visit the ONE Knowledge Center; or contact Scott Pollock at Corning; or Linda Torocco at Fiber-Span.

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