Leading US POF Distributor Makes Full Line of Firecomms Fiber Optic Transceivers Readily Availabl

AUSTIN, Texas - Dec. 4, 2013 - PRLog -- Firecomms is pleased to announce that U.S. plastic optical fiber (POF) distributor FiberFin has added the company’s line of LC and RedLink® POF transceivers and cable assemblies to its product portfolio, enabling customers to quickly and easily order sampling, prototyping and production launch quantities of Firecomms OptoLock®, LC and RedLink transceivers and cable assemblies.

Already a distributor for Firecomms unique OptoLock transceivers, which allow for extremely fast field termination due to its plugless interface, FiberFin now will carry Firecomms’ full line of RedLink and LC products.  All Firecomms products are available on FiberFin’s new on-line store on its updated website (http://www.fiberfin.com).

“With a long-term presence in the plastic optical fiber market, FiberFin brings extensive experience that complements Firecomms innovative products,” says Lawrence Thorne, Firecomms VP of Sales and Marketing, Americas.  “Now in addition to offering Firecomms’ complete line of POF transceivers, FiberFin can leverage its POF cable expertise to provide standard and custom length Firecomms POF cable assemblies.”

Designed to be drop-in compatible with the Versatile Link range of components from Avago Technologies, Firecomms’ rugged RedLink devices offer improvements including enhanced EMI immunity, lower power consumption, and other performance enhancing features.

Firecomms LC transceivers, with solutions for a range of applications, including power, industrial, medical, transportation and home networking, offer a 66% reduction in footprint when compared to SFP-based solutions.  Housed in the company’s LC sockets, Firecomms’ LC products are designed to work with either POF or Hard Clad Silica (HCS) fibers for distances up to either 50m or over 100m making these transceivers ideal solutions for use in networking factory floor equipment, wind tower communications, and other industrial applications.

“By adding the full line of Firecomms transceivers to our product portfolio, we can now provide our customers with complete end-to-end POF solutions for industrial and other applications,” says Paul Mulligan, CEO of FiberFin.

About Firecomms Ltd.

Firecomms, a global leader in the provision of fiber optic solutions and optical transceivers, skillfully combines state-of-the-art compound and silicon semiconductor technology with inventive small-scale integration to develop products that drive communications networks in power and energy, industrial, transportation, medical and consumer markets.

A global multinational company, Firecomms is jointly headquartered in Cork, Ireland and Tongxiang, China with additional facilities in the USA, Japan and Southeast Asia.  To learn more about how Firecomms can help your business, please visit http://www.firecomms.com.

About FiberFin

FiberFin, a full line distributor of polymer optical fiber, offers the largest variety of plastic optical fiber (POF) products in the world.  By offering every major brand of polymer optical fiber available on the market, FiberFin is one of the largest, custom assembly manufacturers.

FiberFin carries a large inventory to serve its customers in the industrial, factory automation, sensing and medical markets.  As an industry leader in POF termination technology, automation and standards work, FiberFin provides one stop shop for POF.  Additional information about FiberFin is available at http://www.fiberfin.com.