Acquisition enhances Molex's fibre optic offerings

Doug Busch, Vice President and General Manager, Optical Solutions Group, Molex, commented: “Molex collaborates closely with customers to address their fibre optic design challenges directly through innovative electronic solutions. Oplink’s capabilities, expertise and proven technologies combined with our optical product portfolio and global engineering and manufacturing platform will put Molex in a unique position to deliver complete fibre optic solutions to our customers worldwide.”

Oplink specialises in creating total solutions using advanced optical transport and transmission technologies for customers in the wireline, wireless telecomms and datacomms infrastructure markets and data centre applications, as well as serving adjacent sectors of CATV, government and optical sensing. As bandwidth intensive applications continue to drive upgrades and expansion across customers’ networks, Oplink products deliver the needed solutions by addressing DWDM/CWDM bandwidth creation, bandwidth management, optical amplification, switching and routing, wavelength conditioning, monitoring and protection, connectivity and system-level integration of active optoelectronics and passive optical components. These leading optical solutions are supported fully by vertically integrated design and manufacturing services.

“As our customers confront increasingly complex challenges, Molex is committed to creating more customer value by offering integrated solutions that leverage a broad range of high quality optical products and technologies,” adds Busch.