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Understanding the Fiber Optic Center Difference

Industry connection to the most innovative optical products, technologies and technical experts

Integrating this manufacturing knowledge and vast experience into our customers’ worldwide operations.

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CORPORATE STATEMENT

CORPORATE CITIZEN

MEET THE TEAM

Fiber Optic Center, Inc., (FOC), is an international leader in distributing fiber optic components, equipment and supplies and has been helping customers make the best cable assemblies in the world for over two decades.

Fiber Optic Center is the

Preferred choice for many of the world’s fiber professionals

In these key technology areas, we are "at least as technical as the manufacturer" about the products we sell.

Partner Selection

Providing the fiber industry with only the highest quality components, systems and technology, our supplier selection process begins with the long-term commitment of the supplier to the product line. We have firsthand knowledge and history of quality issues related to specific parts, and close relationships with individuals at all levels within the supplier’s company.

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Customer Solutions

Proud to be the industry connection to the most innovative optical products, technologies and technical experts while integrating this manufacturing knowledge and vast experience into our customers’ worldwide operations. Several areas of specialization and expertise, in which we are the industry leader, make FOC the preferred choice for many of the world’s fiber professionals.

Corporate Citizen

Though FOC has always supported a myriad of non-profit, they remained private prior to launching FOC Corporate Citizen. Through Corporate Citizen we intend to bring greater awareness and support to the causes we care so deeply about.

The FOC Difference

FOC may be the only company in the world that sells and delivers every piece of equipment needed for the automated production of fiber optic cable assemblies, also called patch cords: cable cutting and fiber stripping equipment, metered epoxy dispensing systems and curing ovens, laser cleaving systems, polishing machines and plates, and instruments for all three kinds of testing: interferometer for geometry, microscopes and software for visual inspection, and sources, power meters and switches for insertion loss and back-reflection (bi-directionally if required).

FOC also carries all of the hand tools as well as consumables needed for production and testing: epoxy, polishing films, cleaning supplies and cassettes.

“One extremely important item missing from the distribution details is the know-how, the actual procedures and processes that go with each piece of equipment… that is the FOC difference”

There is one extremely important item that is missing from the details above: that is the know-how, the actual procedures and processes that go with each piece of equipment. Assuming the equipment is sufficient to make quality assemblies, it is the process that determines whether the cable assemblies produced on this equipment meet your specifications and are shipped on time to your customer, or if they require re-work or even worse, scrapping and starting over.

The difference between hitting the ground running and shipping product once the equipment is set up and in operation, or missing and having to figure out what needs to change in order to make a quality product and doing it right the second, third, fourth or more time, is major. Losses include connectors and cable; epoxy and polishing film and other consumables; labor; and equipment that is being depreciated but not producing income. Missed deliveries and returned product usually result in a loss of confidence on the part of the customer, or worse: the loss of the order and maybe the customer.