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• Thomson Reuters 2011 Top 100 Global Innovator Award

  02-01-12

  Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. has received the Thomson Reuters 2011 Top 100 Global Innovator Award from Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading intelligent information service company (Headquarters: New York, U.S.; Japan Office: Tokyo). 

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• 2011 Top 100 Global Innovator organizations

  11-15-11

  Thomson Reuters announced the world’s 100 most innovative organizations today with the launch of the Thomson Reuters 2011 Top 100 Global Innovator^sm program, an initiative that analyzes patent data and related metrics in a proprietary methodology to identify the companies and institutions that lead the world in innovation activity. More information is available at top100innovators.com.

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• Sumitomo Electric Lightwave Launches New Quantum Fusion Splicer with Industry 1st Advancements

  08-17-11

  The new Quantum Fusion Splicer is the industry’s smallest and lightest core-alignment fusion splicer and is the only splicer with a fully navigational touch screen monitor; SD port, plus video, audio, and software uploads; remote maintenance; and longest electrode life for better optical fiber splicing efficiencies in the data center, enterprise network, FTTx, and outside plant environments.

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• FutureFLEX Air-Blown Fiber Awarded Qualified Product Listing (QPL) for Military and Navy Shipboard Contracts

  01-25-11

  Sumitomo Electric Lightwave’s FutureFLEX Air-Blown Fiber Awarded Qualified Product Listing (QPL) for Military and Navy Shipboard Contracts

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• Sumitomo Electric Lightwave Unveils Industry’s First MPO Connector for Fusion Splice- On Connectivity

  01-13-11

  The Lynx2 CustomFit Splice-on Connector product line has expanded with the introduction of the industry’s first MPO field installable, fusion splice-on connector, meeting the demand by customers for faster deployment and costsavings for customized field terminations in data center, FTTx, enterprise network, MDU, government and military, and other network applications.

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• Sumitomo Electric Launches Its Next Generation Lynx2 Splice Connector, Enabling Cost Effective SC, LC, & FC

  03-24-10

  Sumitomo Electric Lightwave (www.sumitomoelectric.com), a leader in fiber optic product manufacturing, announced today the introduction of the Lynx2 CustomFit® Splice-On Connector, the first splice connector in the industry to offer the three leading connector types, SC, LC, and FC for single-mode, 50 and 62.5 micron multimode, and gigabit laser optimized multimode fiber types.

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• Sumitomo Introduces Next Generation Termination Equipment for Its FutureFLEX Blown Fiber System

  01-17-10

  Sumitomo Electric Lightwave, a leader in fiber optic product manufacturing and developer of the FutureFLEX Air-blown Fiber Cabling System announced today the introduction of FutureFLEX’s new fiber termination equipment that yields higher fiber packing density in smaller and lighter weight fiber termination units for savings in rack space, time, and labor costs.

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• Sumitomo’s FutureFLEX Air-blown Fiber Assists National Library of Medicine (National Institutes of Health)

  03-10-09

  Sumitomo Electric Lightwave today announced the deployment of its FutureFLEX® Air-Blown Fiber® system ( www.futureflex.com ) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest medical library and the information and research arm of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in all areas of biomedicine and health care.  
  

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• Sumitomo’s FutureFLEX Air-blown Fiber Infrastructure Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY® Product of the Year Award

  01-19-09

  INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine (www.itmag.com) has named Sumitomo’s FutureFLEX® Air-blown Fiber® (www.futureflex.com) as a recipient of its 2008 Product of the Year Award.

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