AFOP Reports Quarterly Year-Over-Year Increases of

SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 23, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 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 reported its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013.

Revenues for the second quarter of 2013 totaled $19,039,000, a 65% increase from revenues of $11,527,000 reported in the second quarter of 2012, and a 57% increase from revenues of $12,153,000 reported in the previous quarter. The Company recorded net income for the second quarter of 2013 of $4,282,000, or $0.49 per share, based on 8.75 million shares outstanding, compared to $1,232,000, or $0.14 per share, based on 8.8 million shares outstanding for the second quarter of 2012. This compares to net income for the first quarter of 2013 of $1,850,000, or $0.22 per share, based on 8.6 million shares outstanding.

Included in expenses was stock-based compensation of $411,000 for the quarter ended June 30, 2013, $271,000 for the quarter ended June 30, 2012 and $280,000 for the quarter ended March 31, 2013.

Peter Chang, President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "We are very pleased with the exceptional financial performance and progress AFOP made in the quarter ended June 30, 2013. With excellent efforts by our Asia operations, we managed unexpected demand increases and delivered much higher than originally guided quarterly revenues. With our focus on operational excellence, we continued to improve gross margins to a record level above 38%, which resulted in a 132% increase in profits based on our 57% revenue growth from the previous quarter. In addition, our balance sheet becomes stronger with improved inventory turn and a higher net cash balance."

"More importantly, customer demand remains strong. Therefore, we expect revenues to increase to another record level, between $19.5M and $20.5M, in the third quarter of 2013. With higher revenues and our continued focus on operational efficiency, we expect our gross margins and profit will improve in the quarter as well." concluded Mr. Chang.

Conference Call

Management will host a conference call at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time on July 23, 2013 to discuss AFOP's second quarter 2013 financial results. To participate in AFOP's conference call, please call 877-675-3572 at least ten minutes prior to the call in order for the operator to connect you. The confirmation number for the call is 11703727. AFOP will also provide a live webcast of its second quarter 2013 conference call at AFOP's website, http://www.afop.com/ "> www.afop.com . The webcast replay will be available on AFOP's website 90 minutes after the live conference call.

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, metropolitan and last mile access segments of the communications network. AFOP offers a broad product line of passive optical components including interconnect systems, couplers and splitters, thin film CWDM and DWDM components and modules, optical attenuators, and micro-optics devices. 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 .

Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this press release, including statements as to our expectations regarding future revenue levels, profits and margins and the time periods thereof, our operational excellence, its impact on margins, and our ability to sustain the same, and our expectations regarding customer demand, are forward looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially, including, but not limited to general economic conditions and trends, trends in demand for bandwidth, the impact of competitive products and pricing, timely introduction of new technologies, timely design acceptance by our customers, the acceptance of new products and technologies by our customers, customer demand for our products, the timing of customer orders, loss of key customers, our ability to ramp new products into volume production, the mix of products sold and product pricing, the costs associated with running our operations, industry-wide shifts in supply and demand for optical components and modules, industry overcapacity and demand for bandwidth, the success of cost control initiatives, our ability to obtain and maintain operational efficiencies, financial stability in foreign markets, and other risks detailed from time to time in our SEC reports, including AFOP's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2013. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. AFOP disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements.

Anita Ho Acting Chief Financial Officer Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc. Phone: 408-736-6900 x168