AFOP to Present at the 18th Annual Needham Growth Conference January 12, 2016

Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFOP), an innovative supplier of fiber optic components, subsystems, and integrated modules for the optical network equipment market, today announced that Mr. Peter Chang, President and CEO, will present at the 18th Annual Needham Growth Conference on Tuesday, January 12, 2016. The conference is being held at the New York Palace Hotel in New York. AFOP's presentation is scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m. ET. A live and archived webcast of the presentation may be accessed at the conference webcast page, http://wsw.com/webcast/needham75/afop, or in the investor relations section of the company's website: http://investor.afop.com/.

About AFOP

Founded in 1995, Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets a broad range of high performance fiber optic components and integrated modules. AFOP's products are used by leading and emerging communications equipment manufacturers to deliver optical networking systems to the long-haul, enterprise, data center, metropolitan and last mile access segments of the communications network. AFOP offers a broad product line of passive optical components including interconnect systems, splitters, thin film CWDM and DWDM components and modules, and optical attenuators. AFOP is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with manufacturing and product development capabilities in the United States, Taiwan and China. AFOP's website is located at http://www.afop.com/.

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