Telect recently announced the retirement of co-founders Bill and Judi Williams from the company’s Board of Directors.

Today’s high-speed networks thrive on optical fiber connections … perfect fiber connections. But those connections are finicky. Fiber cable connections must be clean on both ends, they require gentle handling and they need to be installed with proper bend radius, end to end, to prevent any induced loss issues.

One member of the fiber optic cable family has a new name. TIA-492AAAE was issued in July 2016 for multimode fiber that supports transmission of multiple wavelengths including and beyond 850nm.

When he’s not in the field talking with network engineers and executives, you can probably find Fred Serna in the gym, working out with Randy White, the nine-time Pro Bowler and NFL Hall of Famer from the Dallas Cowboys.

Did you know that young adults listen to 4,503,417,453 minutes of music each week? That’s 1.28 billion songs. To keep up with consumers’ insatiable need for more speed and bandwidth, communications service providers are “under massive pressure to increase bandwidth, speed up delivery,” says Spencer Williams, Telect Vice President of Marketing, Sales and Product Strategy.