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Fusion Splicer Solutions

When it comes to optical fiber fusion splicers, no other company in the world can match Sumitomo Electric Lightwave for innovation, speed, and performance.

FutureFLEX® Air-Blown Fiber® Solutions

Sumitomo Electric Lightwave’s FutureFLEX® Air-Blown Fiber offers unprecedented ease of installation, flexibility, and cost savings for current and future network requirements. As the first to introduce the air blown fiber technology in North America, the FutureFLEX® solution offers competitive features and benefits to make it compatible with any network infrastructure design.
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Connectivity Solutions

Sumitomo Electric Lightwave Connectivity Solutions feature Lynx-CustomFit™ Splice-On Connectors enabling quick, easy, and reliable customized FTTx, outside-plant, and inside-plant permanent field terminations without the shorts, excess slack, and logistic delays of preterminated cables.
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Optical Fiber Solutions

Sumitomo Electric Lightwave’s vast portfolio of optical fiber ribbon cables ensure that any network can run on the reliability and flexibility that Sumitomo’s products offer. Ranging from inside riser rated ribbon cables to interlocking armored jacketed cables, the optical fiber cables offered by SEL are sure to fit any application.
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4th Level® Data Center Solutions

4th Level® Data Center Solutions simplify the complex by offering the latest innovations in the fiber optic industry. By providing a complete end-to-end solution, Sumitomo Electric Lightwave ensures that your network is capable of providing for future bandwidth capacity.
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Maximizing data center floor space is critical to efficiency, flexibility, and cost savings! Discover SEL's innovative 3RU Rack-Mounted Splice Enclosure - saving space while supporting up to 5,184 f of UHFC passive DC in a single rack. https://bit.ly/48vJjnK

Enhance your ribbon splicing toolkit with Sumitomo Electric’s newly launched Q102-M12+ Ribbon Fiber Splicer and JR-7 Thermal Jacket Remover. Learn more about the improvements and new technologies featured in these next generation solutions: https://bit.ly/3PHtCCr

Sumitomo Electric Lightwave (SEL) is honored as a 2023 Innovators Awards Gold Level Honoree by Cabling Installation & Maintenance @cablingmag for our 3RU Rack-Mounted Splice Enclosure - 1,728-f capacity in a 3RU space. https://bit.ly/3R7lHzs

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