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About Us
Sumitomo Electric Lightwave (SEL) foresaw the migration to an all optical fiber network as early as 1983 when it first opened its doors in Research Triangle Park, NC.
Our sole dedication to the advancement of optical fiber technology and exceptional service to the customer — then and now — has positioned Sumitomo Electric Lightwave as a major industry leader in the innovation, design, development, and manufacturing of optical fiber and connectivity solutions for fiber optic communication, wireless, residential broadband, CATV, FTTx, data center, and enterprise networks.
By providing the industry’s highest quality, most reliable, and advanced optical fiber, fiber optic cable, fusion splicing equipment & accessories, field installable connectors, passive components, FTTx solutions, and FutureFLEX® Air-Blown Fiber® and Air-Blown Cable, SEL is the trusted solutions provider for today’s most prominent optical fiber outside plant and inside plant network deployments.
Dedicated to R&D and continuous innovation, SEL consistently introduces industry-1st solutions that advance the performance, speed, reliability and cost effectiveness demanded by 21st Century networks — giving our customers a competitive edge. Backed by outstanding engineering, technical, and training services, we partner with you, our customer, to tailor your specific product requirements in the achievement of your optical fiber network vision.
And since we’re a wholly owned privately-held company of Sumitomo Electric Industries (SEI), our primary commitment is not to shareholders, but to you — our customer.
As part of SEI, serving the markets of North, South, and Central America, Sumitomo Electric Lightwave draws not only on its own outstanding R&D, resources and expertise, but also on the vast, worldwide Sumitomo consolidation to address the growing demand for new and better technology.
Sumitomo Electric Industries …The Leading Force in Information and Communications Technology Worldwide
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd (SEI) is a global corporate group comprised of 332 consolidated companies and over 170,000 employees in more than 30 countries around the world. SEI is listed 409 in Fortune Magazine’s 2011 Largest 500 Global Companies, the only optical fiber and cable manufacturer on the list, as a testimony to its continued growth, profitability, and stability.
A recent recipient of the Thomson Reuters 2011 Top 100 Global Innovator Award, SEI has long been a leading edge force in the advancement of information and communications technology through decades of pioneering industry-changing innovations and solutions that have led to the advancements in optical fiber networks we witness today.
As pioneers in FTTH/FTTx and PON technologies in Asia and throughout the world, Sumitomo Electric Industries, our parent company, passes its expertise on to us… giving us a competitive advantage that we pass right along to you.
The synergy among all 332 SEI companies is part of the Sumitomo Electric Ingenious Dynamics process and corporate business philosophy that ultimately enables revolutionary, advanced innovations that empower the information and communications industry…and our customers.
Industry-First Sumitomo Electric Innovations…
- Invented with NTT the unique Vapor Phase Axial Deposition (VAD) process of manufacturing highly reliable optical fiber with superior transmission properties
- Pioneered bend insensitive fiber with PureAccess®, the world’s highest sold BIF with over 6 million km deployed
- Developed optical Z-Fiber that exhibits the world’s lowest transmission loss
- Manufactured the first 432-fiber hostile environment cable
- Introduced the first and best patented peelable ribbon to the U.S.
- Developed the industry’s first 100% gel-free OSP ribbon cable
- Designed and introduced the first mass fusion splicer, the industry’s first dual-heater fusion splicers; splice protection heat shrink sleeve; and jacket remover
- Introduced the industry’s first ribbon drop cables
- Helped pioneer the miniaturization of backplane connectors
- Pioneered the first full-featured handheld splicers for FTTx applications…
TomCat® Splicers - Designed and introduced the industry’s first bend insensitive drop cables
- Developed and launched North America’s first and most advanced Air-Blown Fiber® enterprise network infrastructure system
- Plus much more…
More recent first-to-market innovations include:
- The industry’s first MPO Splice-On Connector
- First 36-fiber FTTx Drop Cable
- The industry’s first and only 1-12 fiber automatic blade rotation cleaver
- New Quantum Core-Alignment Fusion Splicer; the industry’s first and only fully
navigational touch-screen splicer with many other industry-first features.
Customer-Derived Tailored Innovations
The new PureFit™ 36-fiber drop cable, hostile environment ribbon cable, and the new Quantum splicer are examples of Sumitomo Customer-Derived Tailored Innovations, inspired through customer input. When our customers tell us they need a solution, we listen, and tailor the product solution to meet the customer need…and we extend our appreciation to our customers to whom we owe many of our industry 1st innovations and continued leadership in mutually providing the best technology has to offer.