LONDON — Bookham has expanded its existing agreement with AMS Technologies to distribute its components to the telecommunications market in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

AMS (Munich, Germany) will now be distributing all of the Bookham telecommunications components to customers in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the UK and Ireland.

Paul Morris, European Sales Director at Bookham, “I am delighted we are expanding the territory covered by AMS Technologies and am confident that they are best placed to support us in this dynamic and growing arena. The AMS Technologies engineering team are well known and respected throughout Europe. Now they can offer complete solutions combining Bookham products with their existing complementary portfolio, ensuring an excellent and growing business.”

Representatives from AMS Technologies’ Munich facility are already working closely with the Bookham applications engineering team in order to develop a full understanding of the company and its products. The portfolio includes transmitters, receivers, erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs), transponders, transceivers and the recently released range of tunable laser-based devices.