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• Thomson Reuters 2011 Top 100 Global Innovator Award

  02-01-12

  Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. has received the Thomson Reuters 2011 Top 100 Global Innovator Award from Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading intelligent information service company (Headquarters: New York, U.S.; Japan Office: Tokyo). 

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• 2011 Top 100 Global Innovator organizations

  11-15-11

  Thomson Reuters announced the world’s 100 most innovative organizations today with the launch of the Thomson Reuters 2011 Top 100 Global Innovator^sm program, an initiative that analyzes patent data and related metrics in a proprietary methodology to identify the companies and institutions that lead the world in innovation activity. More information is available at top100innovators.com.

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• Sumitomo Electric Completed the Third DPoE™ 1.0 Interoperability Test

  09-22-11

  TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE), September 22, 2011--Sumitomo Electric Networks, Inc., today announced that the company participated in the third DOCSIS® Provisioning of EPON (DPoE™) interoperability event hosted by CableLabs® in Louisville, Colorado, together with other DPoE suppliers, on Aug 22th through 26th.

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• Sumitomo Electric Lightwave Launches New Quantum Fusion Splicer with Industry 1st Advancements

  08-17-11

  The new Quantum Fusion Splicer is the industry’s smallest and lightest core-alignment fusion splicer and is the only splicer with a fully navigational touch screen monitor; SD port, plus video, audio, and software uploads; remote maintenance; and longest electrode life for better optical fiber splicing efficiencies in the data center, enterprise network, FTTx, and outside plant environments.

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• Sumitomo Electric Lightwave Launches Industry’s First MPO Fusion Splice-On Connector

  03-09-11

  Sumitomo Electric Lightwave Launches Industry’s First MPO Fusion Splice-On Connector for Customized, On-Site, Loose Tube Cable Connectivity 

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• FutureFLEX Air-Blown Fiber Awarded Qualified Product Listing (QPL) for Military and Navy Shipboard Contracts

  01-25-11

  Sumitomo Electric Lightwave’s FutureFLEX Air-Blown Fiber Awarded Qualified Product Listing (QPL) for Military and Navy Shipboard Contracts

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• Sumitomo Electric Lightwave Unveils Industry’s First MPO Connector for Fusion Splice- On Connectivity

  01-13-11

  The Lynx2 CustomFit Splice-on Connector product line has expanded with the introduction of the industry’s first MPO field installable, fusion splice-on connector, meeting the demand by customers for faster deployment and costsavings for customized field terminations in data center, FTTx, enterprise network, MDU, government and military, and other network applications.

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• Sumitomo Electric Launches Its Next Generation Lynx2 Splice Connector, Enabling Cost Effective SC, LC, & FC

  03-24-10

  Sumitomo Electric Lightwave (www.sumitomoelectric.com), a leader in fiber optic product manufacturing, announced today the introduction of the Lynx2 CustomFit® Splice-On Connector, the first splice connector in the industry to offer the three leading connector types, SC, LC, and FC for single-mode, 50 and 62.5 micron multimode, and gigabit laser optimized multimode fiber types.

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