The company claims the new product is the solution to the ‘low-cost, low-quality’ imported fibre optic transmission equipment on the market.
The ComNet FVT1C1B1 and FVR4C4B4 have been made with eight-bit digital performance and have been designed to transmit a single video and contact closure signal on individual multi-mode or single-mode optical fibre. According to ComNet, they have been “environmentally hardened to operate in the harshest conditions”.
“Our customers for traditional fibre optic products were facing enormous cost-pressure from low-cost fibre optic equipment importers,” Steve Clarke, ComNet Europe’s managing director, said. “Our customers were telling us they wanted the quality they had become accustomed to with an American-made product and the support they received from an US-based company. But the low cost product available from our competitors who had turned to PAC Rim suppliers required consideration.
“We challenged our Connecticut-based engineering staff to provide a solution, and the results are these new models. ComNet can now offer a highly cost-effective digitally encoded video product to the market, and our customers can get the performance, quality and support they demand,” he said.
Frank Haight,vice president of marketing, said: “Being able to provide solutions to market challenges quickly are one of the many benefits a company that designs and manufactures here in the US brings to the market.”
