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Exhibit 4.1




AMENDED AND RESTATED



CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION



OF MRV COMMUNICATIONS, INC.




     MRV Communications, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of
Delaware (the “Corporation”), hereby certifies as follows:



     FIRST: The name of the Corporation is MRV Communications, Inc.



     SECOND: The original Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation was filed with the
Secretary of the State of Delaware on March 9, 1992, under the name “MRV Technologies, Inc.”



     THIRD: All amendments to the Certificate of Incorporation reflected herein have been duly
authorized and adopted by the Corporation’s Board of Directors and stockholders in accordance with
the provisions of Sections 242 and 245 of the Delaware General Corporation Law. This Amended and
Restated Certificate of Incorporation restates, integrates, amends and supersedes the provisions of
the Certificate of Incorporation of this Corporation as previously filed and as the same may have
been heretofore amended.



     FOURTH: The text of the Certificate of Incorporation as previously filed and as the same may
have been heretofore amended is hereby restated and further amended to read in its entirety as
follows:



     1. The name of the Corporation is MRV Communications, Inc.



     2. The address of its registered office in the State of Delaware is 2711 Centerville Road
Suite 400, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware 19808. The name of its registered agent at such
address is Corporation Service Company.



     3. The nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or promoted is:



     To engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the
General Corporation Law of Delaware.



     4. This Corporation is authorized to issue two classes of stock, to be designated
respectively, “Common Stock” and “Preferred Stock.” The total number of shares of stock which the
Corporation shall have authority to issue is Three Hundred Twenty One Million (321,000,000) shares,
of which Three Hundred Twenty Million (320,000,000) shares shall be designated Common Stock, with a
par value of $0.0017 per share, and One Million (1,000,000) shares shall be designated Preferred
Stock, with a par value of $0.01 per share.



     Additional designations and powers, the rights and preferences and the qualifications,
limitations or restrictions with respect to each class of stock of the Corporation shall be as
determined by the Board of Directors from time to time.



     5. The Corporation is to have perpetual existence.



     6. In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute, this board of
directors is expressly authorized:



          To make, alter or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation.




          To authorize and cause to be executed mortgages and liens upon the real and personal property
of the Corporation.




          To set apart out of any of the funds of the Corporation available for dividends a reserve or
reserves for any proper purpose and to abolish any such reserve in the manner in which it was
created.




          By a majority of the whole board, to designate one or more committees, each committee to
consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation. The board may designate one or more




 









 







directors as alternate members of any committee, who may replace any absent or disqualified
member at any meeting of the committee. The bylaws may provide that in the absence or
disqualification of a member of a committee, the member or members thereof present at any meeting
and not disqualified from voting, whether or not he or they constitute a quorum, may unanimously
appoint another member of the board of directors to act at the meeting in the place of any such
agent or disqualified member. Any such committee, to the extent provided in the resolution of the
board of directors, or in the bylaws of the Corporation, shall have and may exercise all the powers
and authority of the board of directors in the management of the business and affairs of the
Corporation, and may authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may
require it; but no such committee shall have the power or authority in reference to amending the
certificate of incorporation, adopting an agreement of merger or consolidation, recommending to the
stockholders the sale, lease, or exchange of all or substantially all of the Corporation’s property
and assets, recommending to the stockholders a dissolution of the Corporation or a revocation of a
dissolution, or amending the bylaws of the Corporation; and, unless the resolution or bylaws
expressly so provide, no such committee shall have the power or authority to declare a dividend or
to authorize the issuance of stock.




          When and as authorized by the stockholders in accordance with statute, to sell, lease or
exchange all or substantially all of the property and assets of the Corporation, including its
goodwill and its corporate franchises, upon such terms and conditions and for such consideration,
which may consist in whole or in part of money or property, including shares of stock in, and/or
other securities of, any other corporation or corporations, as its board of directors shall deem
expedient and for the best interests of the Corporation.




     7. To the maximum extent permitted by Section 102(b)(7) of the General Corporation Law of
Delaware, a director of this Corporation shall not be personally liable to the Corporation or its
stockholders for monetary damage for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability
(i) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii)
for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing
violation of (iii) under Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv) for any
transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.



     8. Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between this Corporation and its creditors
or any class of them and/or between this Corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any
court of equitable jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary
way of this Corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof, or on the application of any
receiver or receiver, appointed for this Corporation under the provisions of Section 291 of Title 8
of the Delaware Code or on the application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or
receivers appointed for this Corporation under the provisions of Section 279 of Title 8 of the
Delaware Code, order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders
or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such manner as
the said court directs. If a majority in number representing three-fourths in value of the
creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this
Corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization
of this Corporation as a consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said compromise or
arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by the court to which the said
application has been made, be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the
stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, and also on this
Corporation.



     9. Meetings of the stockholders may be held within or without the State of Delaware, as the
bylaws may provide. The books of the Corporation may be kept (subject to any provision contained
in the statutes) outside the State of Delaware at such place or places as may be designated from
time to time by the Board of Directors or in the bylaws of the Corporation. Elections of directors
need not be by written ballot unless the bylaws of the Corporation shall so provide.



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     10. The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change, or repeal any provision
contained in this Certificate of Incorporation, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by
statute, and all rights conferred upon stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation.



     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Amended and Restated Certificate of
Incorporation to be signed by Noam Lotan, its President and Chief Executive Officer, and attested
by Shlomo Margalit, its Secretary, this 14th of June, 2007.



	 	 	 	 	 
	 	MRV COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

 	 
	 	/s/ Noam Lotan
 	 
	 	Noam Lotan, President and CEO 	 
	 	 	 
	 



	 	 	 
	ATTEST
	 	 
	 
	 	 
	/s/ Shlomo Margalit
	 	 
	 

Shlomo Margalit, Secretary

	 	 






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