OFS Releases FITEL S153A Fusion Splicer to North American Market

March 23, 2010 – OFS has released their active clad alignment FITEL S153A handheld fusion splicer to the North American market at OFC/NFOEC 2010 in booth #1023. The company also unveiled the FITEL S178 fusion splicer in January 2010.

OFS engineered the two fusion splicing machines to endure harsh operating conditions by improving shock/impact resistance with rubber pads embedded on four corners of the splicer body. Both fusion splicers are also water-resistance compliant to IPX2 and dust-resistance compliant to IP5X.

Another feature of the S178 and the S153A is the reduced operation time as compared to a conventional fusion splicer. Protection sleeve shrink time is only 25 seconds (with pre-heating mode), while splicing requires a mere 9 seconds with the S153A.

The S153A is capable of splicing common telecommunication fibers such as SM/MM (singlemode/multimode). In addition, the S153A boasts splice programs for BIF/UBIF (bend insensitive fiber/ultra bend insensitive fiber) which is more commonly used for FTTH applications.

For more information on these new splicer models visit OFS.