Snap-on BK5500 Video Inspection Scope
The BK5500 video inspection scope from Snap-on is a time-saving inspection tool which is ideal for engine, A/C, under dash, suspension and transmission work.
Sumitomo Type-66 TuffCat Mass Fusion Splicer
The Type-66 TuffCat mass fusion splicer features the industry’s first Dual-Automatic-Splice Protection Sleeve Heater System – Sumitomo’s exclusive patent-pending system. The dual heater system’s simultaneous operation helps to eliminate squandered time waiting for a single heater system to complete its cycle. Instead, the streamlined splicing process reduces the bottle neck of “heater wait time” by 88%, improving mass splicing efficiency and productivity in the field by 70%.
Sumitomo Type-39 FastCat Fusion Splicer
The Sumitomo Type-39 FastCat Core Alignment fusion splicer is the industry’s first splicer to feature a Dual-Automatic Heater System featuring Auto Start Heater and Auto Start Splice functions – making the FastCat the fastest splicer available today.
Sumitomo TomCat Type-25e Handheld Fusion Splicer
The new Type-25e TomCat fusion splicer from Sumitomo incorporates all the features, functions and proven reliability of the Type-25 family – the industry’s most popular handheld splicers for FTTx and restoration applications – but with a great many enhancements. The TomCats feature improved optical technology utilizing your choice of an economical single camera system or an industry standard dual camera splice loss estimation system. The improved optical technology, combined with a quicker splice protection sleeve heater, allows the unit to deliver a typical splice time in less that 11 seconds for SMF or MMF.
Snap-on BK6000 Digital Image Capturing Borescope
The BK6000 Digital Image Capturing Borescope from Snap-on offers unlimited uses for inspecting hard-to-see places. With the digital borescope, professional technicians can easily diagnose problems more accurately and quickly, avoiding unnecessary disassembly, and saving valuable time and effort.
Kazakhtelecom Deploys GPON FTTH Network
January 24, 2011 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) says it has completed the deployment of the first gigabit passive optical network (GPON) in Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan. Kazakhtelecom will use the new network to provide broadband services such as IPTV, video on demand (VoD), and high-speed Internet access to residential and [...]
AboveNet Expands Fiber Optic Network in Seattle
December 21, 2010 – AboveNet, Inc., a leading provider of high bandwidth connectivity solutions, today announced it is expanding its high performance network in Seattle. New fiber optic rings will provide short, low latency routes from downtown Seattle to the Sabey Data Center Complex in Tukwila and include connections into the new American Life data [...]
Google Fiber Delays Broadband Award Until 2011
December 16, 2010 – The response to Google Fiber’s contest in which the winner would become a test market for their high-speed, fiber-based broadband network has proven to be so massive that Google has announced that they will delay choosing a winner until 2011. Originally Google had planned to award the test program this month. [...]
Sumitomo Introduces Dual-Heater V-Groove Fusion Splicer
December 15, 2010 – Sumitomo Electric Lightwave has announced the availability of the first fixed V-groove Sumitomo fusion splicer with a dual heating system. The built-in dual heating system of the Type-46 TomCat plus fusion splicer improves splicing efficiency and productivity by 70%, Sumitomo Electric Lightwave asserts. The splicer’s electronic design, which accommodates a built-in [...]
Sidera Networks To Acquire Long Island Fiber Exchange
December 10, 2010 — Sidera Networks, Inc., a premier provider of fiber optic-based network solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Long Island Fiber Exchange, Inc. (“LIFE”), a facilities-based network service provider serving customers on Long Island, New York, and in Westchester County, New York. Through the acquisition of LIFE, [...]