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Publication Date: July 2008
EVENT SPOTLIGHT
Japanese company Furukawa has announced a US$3m investment to produce fiber-optic cable in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for local, Chilean, Uruguayan and Paraguayan telecom carriers. The 4,000-square-meters plant started operations June 19, 2008, and will produce 200,000 kilometers of fiber optics (FO) in the first phase.
Furukawa, one of the largest FO manufacturers with revenue in excess of $10bn, provides telecom and data communications hardware, mainly fiber-optic and metal cabling, and also designs, installs and maintains networks. The company deploys optical system trunking networks, conventional access networks, broadband systems and structured cabling systems. Furukawa’s first operation in Latin America — upon acquiring assets from Lucent that divested the fiber-optic business globally — was their fiber-optic factory in Campinas, Brazil, in 2001. Pyramid Research expects that the trend of investing in telecom equipment and infrastructure will continue in order to meet the additional demand of 260m fixed and mobile accesses in Latin America from 2007 through 2013.
Author: Jose Mario Lopez
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