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Southern Light has celebrated its 1,000 th customer and 5,000 route miles of fiber optic networks in its south-east operational area. The company is currently expanding its footprint to fiber increase

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key markets including Huntsville and Birmingham, Alabama, and Jackson, Mississippi. “Southern Light has significantly expanded its reach, while maintaining the highest levels of excellence,” said Andy Newton, president and CEO of Southern Light. “Our network and customers are of utmost importance as we continue to provide high-bandwidth infrastructure solutions.”

Molex Incorporated has announced the expansion of its fiber optic technology platform following the recent acquisition of Oplink Communications. A wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries, Molex will now manage Oplink, a provider of optical communication components, intelligent modules and subsystems for a variety of applications. Molex is a supplier of advanced fiber optic interconnect systems, including connectors and adapters, optoelectronics, optical assemblies, backplanes, optical circuitry and integrated systems for telecommunications, datacom, medical, military/aerospace and other industries. Doug Busch, vice president and general manager of the Molex optical solutions group, expects that: “Oplink’s capabilities, expertise and proven technologies combined with our optical product portfolio and global engineering and manufacturing platform will put Molex in a unique position to deliver complete fiber optic solutions to our customers worldwide.” Oplink specializes in utilizing advanced optical transport and transmission technologies for customers in the wireline, wireless telecom and datacom infrastructure markets and data center applications, as well as serving adjacent sectors of CATV, government/military and optical sensing. As bandwidth intensive applications continue to drive upgrades and expansion across customers’ networks, Oplink products deliver the needed solutions by addressing DWDM/ CWDM bandwidth creation, bandwidth management, optical amplification, switching and routing, wavelength conditioning, monitoring and protection, connectivity and system-level integration of active optoelectronics and passive optical components. Oplink solutions are fully supported by vertically integrated design and manufacturing services.

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wiredInUSA - April 2015

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