Company Announcement - Molex Incorporated announced today the expansion of its fibre optic technology platform following the recent acquisition of Oplink Communications. A wholly-owned subsidiary of Koch Industries, Molex will now manage Oplink, a leading provider of optical communication components, intelligent modules and subsystems for a wide variety of customer applications.

“Molex collaborates closely with customers to address their fibre optic design challenges directly through innovative electronic solutions,” says Doug Busch, vice president and general manager of the Molex optical solutions group. “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.”

Molex is a leading supplier of advanced fibre optic interconnect systems, including connectors and adapters, optoelectronics, optical assemblies, backplanes, optical circuitry and integrated systems for telecommunications, datacom, medical, aerospace and defence, and other industries. Oplink’s notable record in supplying passive optical products, OMS (Optical Manufacturing Solutions) and active optoelectronics adds breadth and depth to the Molex portfolio of optical connectivity products.

Oplink specialises in creating total solutions using advanced optical transport and transmission technologies for customers in the wireline, wireless telecom and datacom 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.