Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Our first question is from the line of Greg Waters with Investors Asset Management. Please go ahead.
Greg Waters - Investors Asset Management
A question regarding CES, it used to be listed or used to be the majority of what was listed as other on the financial statements, is it now included in network equipment?
Noam Lotan
It always was included in network equipment, Greg.
Greg Waters - Investors Asset Management
Okay. Along those lines, CES seems to be something that doesn't quite fit with the rest of MRV, it's in the aerospace and defense industry and it's really not a networking equipment so to speak or optical components, is that something that the board has looked at potentially spinning off or at any other opportunities with that company that division?
Noam Lotan
Well first of all we have a new board and this issue will probably come up at some point. But let me make a couple of comments on that. When we made the acquisition of CES back in 2001, CES was heavily involved in telecommunication with most relevant to our business. As a matter of fact it was one the units at the time that was potentially an IPO potential. Especially due to the very rapid deployment of NTT DoCoMo, which was the mobile telecom services in Japan.
That obviously the market at that time crashed after 9/11 and then the IPO did not materialize. Over the years, and even though they continue to do business with such as Intel, Siemens and subsequently led to Nokia Siemens, which we still work on gateways for centerfield, which is part of wireless backhaul, but over the years they have made a transformation into more of aerospace and defense, electronics. Now whether this business
fits within our telecom business or doesn't, it doesn't.
The fact is that aerospace and defense given the current market that they are going out tremendous growth potential for us. They are definitely entrenched in this businesses and I think it's a direction as we are going to take including with our network equipment. So, I don't see currently any contradiction, but again like I said we have a new board and the new board will have to take a closer look at that. Thank you.
Greg Waters - Investors Asset Management
Since you mentioned mobile backhaul will quickly with OptiSwitch products, can you provide some customer names there just to give an idea of the strength of MRV products in the mobile backhaul area?
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