A believer that a business is only as strong as the community that surrounds and supports it, Fiber Optic Center, Inc (FOC) has always invested in our community and continues to find ways to pay it forward during the coronavirus pandemic. Frontline workers, those...

New Bedford, MA, USA, April 27, 2020 – Fiber Optic Center, Inc., (FOC), an international leading distributor specializing in helping their customers make the best cable assemblies in the world, announces the addition of Disposable Medical Face Masks to their...

Managers in most businesses now face a common task: how to revise their twelve-month projections or plans for calendar 2020. This is a thorny problem. In a sense, we are still in a data-gathering phase before we can work on conclusions about how much demand may...

The spread the Covid-19 pandemic has a direct effect on the fiber optic and cable assembly industries.
The first impact is near-term: how much will travel restrictions and government-mandated – and temporary – business shutdowns affect assembly manufacturers. The second is longer-term: how much an economic downturn or recession will affect demand for optical cable assemblies. In the latter case, US unemployment is spiking up, consumer spending is plummeting, and economists are openly discussing the likelihood or the potential duration of a recession.

Interview with Erwin Gelderblom at ECOC 2019 Erwin Gelderblom, Fiber Optic Center's, EMEA Business Development, Technical Sales Manager is interviewed on the show floor at ECOC 2019 in Dublin, Ireland. Erwin discusses ways Fiber Optic Center makes customers more...