With Fiber Optic Center, you have a dedicated partner from equipment set up, to process development and beyond. Read what our customers have to say:
“We are very satisfied with the quality of Fiber Optic Center’s work. We always greatly appreciate their collaboration, excellent responsiveness, very clear and precise feedback and for the speed of processing our request. Telenco is thankful for the FOC professionalism and dedication.
Ali DARDOUR
Production Manager
Telenco
“We have worked with Fiber Optic Center for 20+ years and they continue to bring solutions to some of our biggest challenges. Their team is responsive and willing to take the extra time to get us the answers we need. Dave Sylvia and his group are great to work with – we can’t recommend them enough."
Lisa Young
VP Sales & Marketing
X Specialty Optical Fibers Inc.
“We’ve worked with Fiber Optic Center for about 20 years and continue to find great value in their expertise and services. More recently, our engagements with Larry Donalds and Rick Tuminelli have saved us considerable time and money and have improved our lathe operations and process knowledge.
Prof. John Ballato
Sirrine Endowed Chair of Optical Fiber
Clemson University (USA)
“I just want to thank you, Fiber Optic Center, and let you know that you guys are the BEST and have the BEST customer service. You are one of my top 5 suppliers with the best customer service and I am so happy to work with you
Rita Patel
Sr. Buyer/Planner
CardioFocus, Inc.
“I would like to give feedback regarding the analysis we did with Fiber Optic Center’s polishing papers. We did really detailed analysis and can confirm, that ÅngströmLap Ultimas lapping film has better performance in terms of number of reuse and we also observed less residue after polishing during visual inspection. We were able to reduce the number of retries on the visual inspection by more than a half as well as the number of connectors being repolished.
The reduction of the extra cost on these operations will overbalance the cost of the papers, so they are actually less expensive.”
Radek Pilař
Technical Manager
Bel Stewart s.r.o
“I am very pleased with the years of good help and quick reactions of Fiber Optic Center. As we are located in the Netherlands we have a lot of contact with your Dutch employees being Erwin Gelderblom and Marcel Buijs. Both are friendly and always eager in helping us.
Furthermore, the most contact is with Ethan Weiss who handles the quotations. Also, Ethan is always of good help and replies rather quickly.
Overall we are satisfied with Fiber Optic Center as our professional distributor for Fiber Optics items, tools, equipment, and knowledge.”
Rinaldo Eversdijk
Senior Manufacturing Engineer Tooling
Fokker Elmo B.V.
“Due to the pandemic, in-place calibrations have become difficult, so until the virus is under control, FOC provided Furukawa Brazil with the following helpful solution: They sent a calibration kit and gave us detailed instructions and online support to perform the task. The connection of the calibration kit with the Module that will be calibrated is aided by the support and documents very well explained. With the connections ready, the calibration process starts through a completely intuitive software, showing pictures of each step of the calibration, from the connection of the optical cords to the printing of the calibration seal and calibration certificate. The calibration process was very comfortable for me, without difficulties. We are very happy with the support FOC provided.”
Williann Carlos da Silva Santos
Metrologista
COMAU do Brasi
“FOC has earned our business for our grind & polish needs. From purchasing consumables to consulting on a particular issue or need, servicing existing equipment, and procuring new equipment, FOC has been there for us. FOC’s prompt and friendly response to inquiries is very helpful, especially when time is important (…and when there is a need, time is always important).”
Mike Tarpey
Sr. Mfg. Process Engineer Lighting and Imaging
SCHOTT North America, Inc.
“On 8/27/2019 I was alerted that we were out of OP-29-GEL optical adhesive and our system had not placed that item in my queue to purchase. It was really late in the day, almost 3:00 PM Pacific time. I knew there was probably no way that I could get the product in by the next day, especially when I found out that you were located in Massachusetts.“
So I gave your company a call and Brian answered. He helped me with pricing and told me that you had the product in stock. I communicated how badly we needed the adhesive and he said that he would check to see if he could get it out the door and would call me back. Again, I’m thinking there is no way. He called back in less than ten minutes and said he could make it happen so I gave him a purchase order and payment information still thinking to myself there is no way we will get this the next day.
Well, thanks to the efforts of Brian and whoever does the shipping in your company, we received the product the next day early am, without missing any production time. Brian and the shipping person should be commended on their efforts and the great customer service. Again, thank you for the effort you put out to ensure we received what we needed.”
Rick Lucas
Leupold & Stevens
“We encountered an unexpected problem during the last step in our process development and the FOC was quick to help us find an effective solution. I contacted the FOC to discuss our options and they had their recommended product in my hands the next day.”
Jonathan Goettler
Avo Photonics, Inc.
“I approached Fiber Optic Center because we were having a problem getting consistent results with our connector polishing process. Paul, who handles my account, told me that he would see if he could get one of the outside guys to stop by and take a look. Within a week, Dan was in my office, working hand in hand with our operators to figure out the problem. Dan stayed late that evening, and even came back the next morning to put a process in place that greatly improved our process and yield! We saw an immediate improvement in both quality and efficiency.
The one thing I like about working with FOC is the ability that they have to explain the technical aspects of fiber optics to all levels of my work force. Whether it’s a seasoned veteran, or a new hire, every time they come out our team improves. They are easy to work with, and always eager to help out. I would recommend FOC to everyone except my competition!”
Chris Foy
Lynn Electronics Corporation
“An Edmund stage for adjusting the height on our Sagitta Laser cleaver broke. Erwin stripped down his demo machine back home in the Netherlands and expressed the part up to us with instructions from the manufacturer on how to replace it. We were up running again faster than we really could expect. That kind of service and support is what makes me keep coming back to FOC.”
Tomas Ekström
Production Manager
TD Fiberoptik Sweden
“StellarNet, Inc. has been a customer of Fiber Optic Center for over 15 years and in my experience, purchasing couldn’t be made any easier! I have had the best customer service, when dealing with Fiber Optic Center and will continue to be a loyal customer.”
Debra Persell
StellarNet, Inc.
“Rosenberger Brazil has had FOC as a supplier for many years. They have an excellent team and excellent product quality. Everything that we need we go first to them: consumables, equipment, tools. But their support in process, information about new consumables or technologies in the market is the quality we love more. It’s very easy to deal with them. After many years of excellent relationship, we got more than a good supplier, we have good friends. Thank you FOC team for all these years of relationship!”
Débora Zani
Production Manager
Rosenberger Domex Brasil
“My experience with Fiber Optic Center has been supportive and value added in the challenges that we encounter at AFSI. The product listing and knowledge base of the staff of FOC has established a quality organization.”
Phillip Herman
Advanced Manufacturing and Test Manager
Amphenol Fiber Systems International
“I have had a long, wonderful relationship with the personnel at FOC. They are extremely professional and customer service minded. On one occasion we had difficulty with a particular machine’s performance. We contacted them, and they were quick to respond and to advocate for us with the factory to remedy the issues. Mario and David especially were attentive to our needs, and were not satisfied till we were happy with the results. Their competency and knowledge of the industry is also superb. They are my ‘go to’ default for equipment technology and industry trends.”
Michael Strawn
Cablcon
Carrollton,TX
“We at Power Technology greatly appreciate your candor and follow-up with our problem. It was very refreshing to add a vendor (to a very short list) that was straightforward with a problem resolution, instead of offering up a magical solution to an imaginary problem. Well done”
Tom Jackson
Production Engineer
Power Technology, Inc.
…we consider FOC a valuable partner for helping with our rigid ramping requirements and providing the highest quality products…
“When it comes to grading a supplier, one must evaluate Quality of the product, response time, knowledge of the products and processes, customer support, and most of all – Trust. Fiber Optic Center gets an A+ for all of these. We consider FOC a valuable partner for helping with our rigid ramping requirements and providing the highest quality products and ongoing customer support. Thanks again!”
Jim Henschel
MFG Director
Clearfield
…we can count on very quick feedback and support…
“On behalf of company Sylex I have to openly say that FOC is our valuable partner which gives us very strong support. In case of any device, technology, or problem which we would like to discuss with the experts, we can turn to Erwin and his colleagues. We really appreciate the positive approach especially in the case of testing and evaluation of new manufacturing and testing equipment. Based on the fact that Erwin is located in Europe we can count on very quick feedback and support. With this cognition, we know that in the future, we will have a mutually beneficial cooperation.”
Eduard Koza
Engineering Manager, Fiber Optic Interconnections
SYLEX, s.r.o., Slovak Republic
“CommScope has sincere appreciation for the help and support FOC’s entire team as provided us over the past few years. FOC has gone out of their way to help us not only with excellent advice on selection of equipment, accessories and consumables, but also with process development, yield improvement and failure analysis. The FOC team has gone above and beyond anything that can be expected from an equipment vendor and goes to the core of FOC’s dedication to customer focus and service. I value not just the professional relationship that FOC has developed with CommScope but also the personal friendship that my colleagues and I have developed with all of you.”
Atit Mashruwala
Principal Engineer, Process
CommScope
…it is not common to get customer service at the level Fiber Optics Center has provided…
“Schedules in the CM industry can become hectic and the ability to get quick support when issues arise is key. We want to take a second and thank you for the diligence you have shown supporting us during this start up. I have personally worked in the electronics industry for almost 30 years. These days it is not common to get customer service at the level Fiber Optics Center has provided. We look forward continuing our business relationship!”
David Molyneux
M.E. Technician-Specialist, Global Manufacturing Solutions
TT Electronics
“My sales rep at FOC is one of the most helpful individuals I have come across when trying to order fiber optic components. I have quit trying to order from anyone or any other company except my rep at FOC in a long time. You always have the best price and you get it to me as timely as possible. You have yet to disappoint me! Thanks for all the hard work and making my job 1000 times easier.”
Christopher Mullins
Harris Corporation
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.
