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Firecomms and LEONI partner on RedLink LED-based fiber-optic transceiver

April 2, 2013

Cork, Ireland and Tongxiang, China--Firecomms has teamed with LEONI to offer light-emitting diode (LED)-based transceivers as an alternative to existing market-dominant systems.

Gail Overton

RedLink is a light-emitting diode (LED)-based fiber-optic transceiver from Firecomms that will be marketed by LEONI. Left image shows the transceiver; right image shows the LC connector.

Cork, Ireland and Tongxiang, China--Fiber-optic solutions and optical transceiver (http://www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/2012/02/firecomms-gigabit-class-pof-transceiver.html) company Firecomms has teamed with LEONI, a supplier of cables, optical fibers, and cable systems for the automotive sector and other industries, to offer light-emitting diode (LED)-based transceivers as an alternative to existing market-dominant systems. Firecomms will collaborate with the Business Unit Fiber Optics of the LEONI Group (Nuremberg, Germany) to develop the market for its RedLink LED-based fiber-optic solution, which is offered with an LC connector and a connector interface that is compatible with Avago Technologies Versatile Link interface.

"By collaborating with Firecomms, we can profitably combine the competences of both our companies," says Andreas Weinert, VP of the Business Unit Fiber Optics of the LEONI Group. "As a result, we can offer our clients coordinated system solutions with optimized interaction of Polymer Optical (POF) and Polymer Cladded Fiber (PCF) cables, connectors, assemblies and special solutions in fiber optical technologies. Our goal is to give interested industrial companies the opportunity to qualify an alternative source of supply in order to enhance the security and flexibility of their supply chain."

Available in mid-2013, Firecomms RedLink series will include DC-1 Mb, DC-5 Mb, DC-10 Mb and DC-50 Mb transceivers with an operating temperature ranging from -40° to 85° C.

A global multinational company, Firecomms (http://www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/oiq/2012/06/hsin-chia-named-ceo-of-firecomms.html) is jointly headquartered in Cork, Ireland and Tongxiang, China with additional facilities in the USA, Japan, and Southeast Asia.

LEONI is a globally operating supplier of wires, optical fibers, cables, and cable systems as well as related services for the automotive sector and further industries. The group of companies, which is listed on the German MDAX, employs about 59,000 people in 32 countries and has generated consolidated sales of EUR 3.8 billion in 2012 according to provisional calculations.

SOURCE: Firecomms; http://www.firecomms.com/PR-Leoni.html

About the Author

Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)

Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.