Migration towards RoHS compliant products with preserved reliability and performance

The EU directive 2002/95/CE restricts the use of some substances, in particular lead, in electronic
products as of July 2006.

Our products are used for routing, switching, transmiting, network management or network
security in telecommunication applications.

There is a risk to consumer safety should these systems fail unexpectedly.

The restriction on lead is of a great importance for NODCOM, as lead substitutes must not raise
long term reliability issues for electronic boards and modules that NODCOM produces.

Taking these difficulties into account,  the Annex of Directive 2002/95/EC exempts the use of lead
in solders for telecommunication network infrastructure equipment.

The exemption on lead solders will be used as long as the long term reliability of our equipment is fully
guaranteed with alternative solutions. Nevertheless, all the components has been changed with RoHS
compliant parts since July 2006.