US Conec and SANWA Technologies strike VSFF connector licensing agreement
US Conec and SANWA Technologies have entered a license agreement enabling SANWA Technologies to produce and supply MDC VSFF (Very Small Form Factor) duplex optical connectors, MDC VSFF duplex adapters and MMC VSFF multi-fiber adapters.
This agreement will be critical to helping SANWA deliver MDC and MMC connectivity solutions and ensure a robust supply chain for emerging and future optical link architectures.
US Conec and SANWA Technologies will showcase their MDC and MMC solutions at OFC 2025 in San Francisco from April 1 to 3, 2025.
Aki Ishikawa, COO and CSO of SANWA Technologies said that its partnership with US Conec will help it "commercialize our MDC and MMC connectivity solutions.”
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Sean is the Editor-in-Chief of Lightwave. He establishes and executes Lightwave's editorial strategy across its website, email newsletters, events, and other information products. Before coming to Lightwave in July 2023, he served as editor of Broadband Communities. Earlier, he served as senior editor of FierceTelecom and the editor of the former Telecommunications Magazine. He got his start in the optical industry in 1998 when he became the editor of enterprise and optical networks at Information Gatekeepers. He has a BA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and lives in Dracut, Mass, with his wife, two sons, and his cat, Dove.


