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Gateway upgrade

Medical acquisition

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.”

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.

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

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.

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