About Ciena: Ciena specializes in providing advanced optical and Ethernet networking platforms, intelligent software and professional services to help customers deliver optimized networks that fit strategic and operational requirements. Ciena collaborates with leading institutions to provide the research and education community robust, automated and fully redundant networks that minimize cost and complexity. For more information, visit: http://www.ciena.com About Sun Microsystems: Sun Microsystems, Inc. provides network computing infrastructure solutions that include computer systems, software,

About Caltech: With an outstanding faculty, including five Nobel laureates, and such off-campus facilities as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Palomar Observatory, and the W. M. Keck Observatory, the California Institute of Technology is one of the world’s major research centers. The Institute also conducts instruction in science and engineering for a student body of approximately 900 undergraduates and 1,300 graduate students who maintain a high level of scholarship and intellectual achievement. Caltech’s