Industrial / Energy

Every facet of technology including new automated process monitoring and control, plant security, and data communications systems have and continue to change and advance at lightning speed.

Yet, two vitally important technologies have not  adequately changed or advanced — the decades old fiber optic installation methods that actually support those advanced technologies and antiquated connectivity solutions.

That is…until now.  Sumitomo has solved the limitations of traditional fiber optic cabling and connectivity to bring the most advanced solutions for high speed   transmission and IMMEDIATE fiber installations for IMMEDIATE bandwidth upgrades and MACs — creating a Real-Time network for your automated systems and facilities without the safety risks, disruption to operations, unnecessary downtime, and the labor intensive time and costs of traditional cabling and connectivity.

At Sumitomo, we’re delivering solutions that solve the real problems for the fiber optic networks of manufacturing, energy, alternative energy, utilities, and refineries with:

     • FutureFLEX® Air-blown Fiber® — an environmentally green,
       complete end-to-end, splice-free optical fiber and pathway
       solution that provides not only unprecedented benefits for the
       LAN, but for physically separated automated networks, SCADA,
       security, DAS, and other systems, as well.  FutureFLEX delivers
       true bandwidth on demand, eliminates the need to enter or
       disrupt highly secure, hazardous or dangerous areas of the
       network and provides true Real-Time speed and performance
       for your mission critical networks, plus much more.

     • Lynx2 CustomFit® Splice-On Connectors — for customized,
        on-site exact cable builds and terminations facilitating faster
        installations & MACs, faster repairs & restoration, and better
        performance for less downtime…without the shorts & slack
        and logistic delays of preterminated cables.

Why ConocoPhillips, Marathon, Ford Motor Company, Con Edison,
Texaco Refinery,  Orange County Water District, Various Wind Farms,TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), and Many Others Have
Chosen FutureFLEX?

Traditional cabling systems are disruptive to the physical facility and its daily operations by requiring large installation crews who must lift ceiling tiles, re-enter conduit, and re-access secure and hazardous areas to install or pull fiber optic cable, make bandwidth upgrades, or complete any network moves, adds, or changes.  This old technology is not only costly and archaic, but poses unnecessary downtime and safety risks.  With FutureFLEX Air-Blown Fiber, those days are over.

Unlike old traditional optical fiber structured cabling systems, FutureFLEX  

      • Eliminates the need to physically access secure, hard to reach, and
         hazardous areas of the network ,solving  the safety concerns of
         industrial plants and facilities

      • Requires no construction work and  re-entrance into conduit,
         ceiling tiles, floors etc. for quick and easy fiber installations,
         upgrades, reconfigurations, expansions, and MACs  — eliminating
         safety hazards, unnecessary downtime, and potential fiber damage

      • Blows at speeds of up to 150 ft. per minute the exact  type and
         count of fiber required whenever and wherever needed in MINUTES
         versus the days or weeks associated with a traditional cable pull for
         REAL-TIME BANDWIDTH on DEMAND

      • Provides virtually unlimited pathway, fiber, and bandwidth capacity

      • Allows fast and easy real-time fiber installations, upgrades, and
         network MACs, even in hard to reach, highly secure, and
         hazardous areas  

      • Eliminates the need for often unused, wasted, and potentially soon
         to be obsolete dark fiber

      • Delivers  38 reusable fiber pathways in a 4-inch conduit  versus 3
         non-reusable associated with traditional cabling

      • Solves duct bank and congested conduit problems

      • Eliminates or reduces significantly  network downtime and disruption
         to critical operations

      • Solves duct bank and congested conduit problems

      • Eliminates or reduces significantly the installation and cost of
         conduit and innerduct, and the installation of new conduit