Lynx Photonic Networks recently moved to new quarters in Calabasas from the building it has occupied in Woodland Hills since its started its U.S. operations six months ago. But that’s not the move that really counts. That short drive up the 101 is nowhere close to being the most interesting move executives at the photonic switching technology firm make on a regular basis. Lynx has a fully owned subsidiary in Israel and Michael Leigh, Lynx president and co-founder, finds great benefits in operating a fast-growing high-tech company on two continents. Business Journal editor Michael Hart caught up with Leigh one day last week around lunchtime, here in the Valley. Leigh was still at work at his office in Israel where it was just after 10 p.m. “That is definitely one of the challenges we have: trying to work with a 10-hour time change between Los Angeles and Israel. It means we can work 22 hours a day. “There are advantages to working in both time zones, primarily in that we’re starting to share the work load. Questions that get asked at the end of our day in Los Angeles are waiting for us at the beginning of our day here in Israel. Say we are preparing a press release in Los Angeles involving a new product. Our people there may leave the office at 7 or 8 at night and when they come in the next morning, they’ve got fully marked up copy ready to go from the engineers. Or, for instance, someone in the lab here sends a message to his boss in L.A. as to what sort of lead time he needs on a project. By the time he comes back the next day, he’s got his answer. “Of course, we all work more than eight hours, so it gets interesting. The pendulum swings back and forth depending on what’s going on, but I try to spend a week a month in Israel. The customers define a lot of where we’ll be spending most of our time. It’s the price of doing bicontinental technology development. “We’ve got 95 people here (in Israel), 80 of them in the R & D; group. In the U.S., you don’t see companies like that. Silicon Valley has been a revolving door. Here, we have no staff turnover. On the other hand, the U.S. is very good with product development and marketing support. We try to get the best team on a world-wide basis and we find this way there’s a much more stable environment.”