The trusted leader for high-performance UV-curable fiber optic materials...

In the fast-paced world of optical fiber and cable manufacturing, DSM has been a trusted leader for more than four decades. We were there at the inception of the industry, designing the very first UV-curable fiber coatings that would make mass fiber production possible, and we’ve been there ever since— working with leading fiber and cable manufacturers to bring the latest material advancements to the world’s telecommunications market.

Today, DeSolite®, Cablelite® and Bufferlite® materials are the industry standards for fiber protection and identification worldwide. Around the globe, DSM is protecting network investments for the future.

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Join DSM at FTTH 2010 in Las Vegas - Booth 612

DeSolite Supercoatings™ comprise a premier class of fiber coatings designed for “future-proofing” today’s optical fiber networks with low microbending attenuation performance. Visit DSM at this year’s FTTH show in Las Vegas, NV (September 13-15) to learn how this latest-generation technology is improving the economic viability of FTTx in Europe—enabling a reduction in fiber coating thicknesses that can increase compact cable fiber count by more than 30%. This can reduce operator investment costs, accelerate payback time, and potentially increase ROI by as much as 30%.

Fiber Coating Innovation: The Road to More Reliable Networks

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Video-streaming, new Web applications and connected devices are fueling consumer demand for content anytime, anywhere, and creating a tsunami of bandwidth demand for today’s fixed and mobile network...
Optical fiber coatings are one of the critical, if least well-known, components of high-speed fiber networks. There would be no high-speed Internet today without the high-performance coating systems...
Today’s optical fiber networks are expected to last as many as 20-30 years in the field, while handling increasingly greater through-put demand. Because fiber coatings play an important role in...