by Neal Weiss | Jul 7, 2016 | INTERCONNECT: Blog Articles
The first connector to be accepted as a widely used standard in the early days of the fiber optic industry, in the late 1970s, was designed by Amphenol in CT as a variation of their coaxial electrical connect known as subminiature assembly, or SMA. In those days,...
by Neal Weiss | Jul 7, 2015 | FIBER & CABLE: Blog Articles
A large number of U.S. fiber company presidents woke up on Jan. 1, 2002, looked in the mirror, and said, ”I don’t have a business plan.” For the previous two years, business was crazy good. At OFC in 2000, a supplier asked me how we were doing. I said “Great. We...
by Neal Weiss | May 28, 2015 | Fiber Process Development and Manufacturing - Blog Article
Many thousands, likely hundreds of thousands, of people are employed in the fiber optics industry in various positions and working with components, networks, cabling, construction and splicing equipment and all the business aspects of all of that. However, only a very...
