HUNT VALLEY, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TESSCO Technologies Incorporated (NASDAQ: TESS), a leading provider of the product and value chain solutions required to deploy and support wireless systems, and Corning Cable Systems LLC, part of Corning Incorporated’s (NYSE:GLW) Telecommunications segment, have announced that Corning’s innovative fiber connectivity solutions are now available through TESSCO.
This new relationship supports the increasing utilization of fiber optic technology to improve reliability and lower total deployment costs for next-generation wireless base stations and remote radio heads (RRH). TESSCO has expanded its fiber offering to include Corning Cable Systems’ line of industry-leading fiber solutions, which facilitate faster, more efficient deployments.
“Our collaboration with Corning Cable Systems is an important one for TESSCO as we continue to enhance our fiber-to-the-antenna offering,” said TESSCO Senior Vice President Jerry Garland. “With our new line of Ventev® power-to-the-antenna options, complemented by the Corning Cable Systems’ fiber-to-the-antenna solution, our customer base of network operators can now realize rapid deployments of next-generation base stations at the lowest total cost.”
“We have adapted fiber optic connectivity to wireless applications that involve new technology needed to support the growing demand for high-speed bandwidth,” said Bill Burnham, Corning Cable Systems’ Vice President, Global Marketing, Carrier Networks. “Our goal is to enable faster and more efficient RRH installations, both at initial deployments and for scalability.”
TESSCO’s expanded fiber offering now includes Corning Cable Systems’ industry-leading Evolant® Solutions for fiber-to-the-antenna for tower and roof-top applications and the Wireless Networks line of innovative optical solutions, aimed to reduce deployment cost and time for fiber in the last mile, fiber to the cell site for backhaul applications, indoor distributed antenna systems (DAS), and outdoor DAS.
About TESSCO
TESSCO Technologies, (NASDAQ:TESS), is Your Total Source® to build, use, and maintain wireless systems. The convergence of wireless and the Internet is revolutionizing the way we live and work. New systems and applications are unlocking human potential at an unprecedented rate. TESSCO is there, thinking in new ways for exceptional outcomes. TESSCO architects and delivers, with innovation, productivity and speed, the product and value chain solutions to organizations responsible for building, operating, and maintaining wireless voice, data and video systems.
About Corning Incorporated
Corning Incorporated is the world leader in specialty glass and ceramics. Drawing on more than 160 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications and life sciences. Our products include glass substrates for LCD televisions, computer monitors and laptops; ceramic substrates and filters for mobile emission control systems; optical fiber, cable, hardware & equipment for telecommunications networks; optical biosensors for drug discovery; and other advanced optics and specialty glass solutions for a number of industries including semiconductor, aerospace, defense, astronomy and metrology.