Draka Announces Non-Zero Dispersion Shifted Large
Effective Area Fiber Available in All Cable Designs
NZDS-LA readily available in a wide variety of cable designs for applications ranging from metropolitan to long haul networks.
Claremont, North Carolina, October 27, 2009 (NYSE EURONEXT: DRAK) – Draka Communications – Americas, a leader in fiber and fiber cable solutions, today announced the availability of non-zero dispersion shifted, large effective area (NZDS-LA) fiber into all outside plant cable products for a variety of applications ranging from metropolitan to long haul networks.
Introduced in 2007, Draka has expanded the application of this fiber into all loose tube, ribbon, and central tube cable product families. “It is important for us to offer customers a broad range of options when building or restoring metropolitan, regional and long haul networks. Customers win by having a full compliment of cable designs plus a wide variety of choices for fiber types, to adapt to the diversity of legacy and newly built optical fiber cable infrastructure”, states Greg Williams, Director of Marketing at Draka.
NZDS-LA joins Draka’s flagship Teralight fiber, a high performance, non-zero dispersion shifted long haul fiber that has been available for 10 years in loose tube, ribbon or central tube cable types. Teralight long haul fiber was introduced in 1999 and meets ITU G.655 and G.656 industry standards.
In addition to meeting the ITU G.655 performance standard, Draka’s NZDS-LA fiber cable product offers several unique features and benefits:
• A high quality glass with sharp refractive index design manufactured using Draka’s industry leading, proprietary PCVD and APVD processes.
• The EzPrepTM advantage – Draka’s unique cable design recognized by installers as the most craft friendly in the industry.
The new product is available immediately. For more information contact Draka Customer Care at (800)879-9862.
About Draka Communications – Americas
Draka, headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is a €2.7 billion, publicly listed (Euronext) company with 9,500 employees worldwide. Draka is divided into three Groups: Energy & Infrastructure, Industry & Specialty and Communications.
Draka Communications is a world leader in the development, production and sale of optical fiber, cable and cable systems. The Draka fiber advantage is rooted in the superiority of the trench assisted core profile and Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition (PCVD) process. This process is inherently more flexible than other processes and, because it is Draka’s standard manufacturing process, it ensures the compatibility of the fiber with existing networks. Research shows that other bend insensitive fibers with unproven designs may exhibit significant variations in performance and impact their use in the field.
Draka Communications clients in North America are served from Draka's unique site in Claremont, North Carolina which is home to a 125-acre corporate campus & Americas headquarters, over 1 million square feet of manufacturing space and the only integrated optical fiber and cable facility in North America.
For more information please visit www.drakaamericas.com or call 1-800-879-9862.
Draka Communications - Americas Media Contact
Kim Hudson, Marketing Communications Manager
Phone 828.459.8443
Fax 828.459.8444
Kim.Hudson@draka.com
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