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wiredInUSA - November 2014
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Carlisle Companies Incorporated
has acquired the Shenzhen cable
assembly producer LHi Technology.
With annual sales of over $100 million,
LHi sells its customized, high-reliability
wire, cable and components
to
leading
medical
device
manufacturers around the world.
The business will operate as part of
Carlisle Interconnect Technologies,
a global provider of wire, cable
and
interconnect
components
for
commercial
and
military
aircraft, medical applications, and
communications systems.
The acquisition will strengthen Carlisle’s
successful launch of its medical cable
and cable assembly product line by
adding newproducts, newcustomers,
and complementary technologies to
better serve the global healthcare
market.
David A Roberts, Carlisle’s chairman
andCEO, said: “We are excited about
the acquisition of LHi, which helps
us further penetrate the targeted
healthcare market by adding scale
and
technological
capabilities
while broadening service ranges to
our customers in this very attractive
market sector.”
Medical
acquisition
The Asia America Gateway (AAG)
consortium has selected Ciena’s
GeoMesh
submarine
solution,
including the 6500 packet-optical
platform, powered by WaveLogic
coherent optics with Flexible Grid
technology, for a 100G expansion to
its AAG trans-Pacific cable network.
AAG is a 20,000km submarine
communications
cable
system,
connecting Southeast Asia with
the US mainland, across the Pacific
Ocean via Guam and Hawaii. It
provides
connectivity
between
Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei
Darussalam, Vietnam, Hong Kong
SAR, Philippines, Guam, Hawaii and
the US west coast.
The system was designed to serve as
an alternative connectivity and as
a complementary solution for links
between southeast Asia and the USA.
The AAG cable system is designed to
offer a more secure and diversified
route that avoids the hazardous
Pacific Ring, so mitigating the effects
from natural disasters including
earthquakes and tsunamis.
Ciena’s converged packet optical
solutions will add multi-terabit data
capacity, and enable AAG’s network
to meet the demands of on-demand
data networking services and traffic
growth driven by mobile applications,
high definition video and cloud
computing.
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