Business Description
Optical Cable Corporation was incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia
in 1983. We are headquartered at 5290 Concourse Drive, Roanoke, Virginia 24019
and our telephone number is (540) 265-0690. Optical Cable Corporation, together
with our wholly owned subsidiary, Applied Optical Systems, Inc. (“AOS”),
has offices, manufacturing and warehouse facilities located in Roanoke, Virginia,
near Asheville, North Carolina and near Dallas, Texas.
Optical Cable Corporation and its subsidiaries is a leading manufacturer of
a broad range of fiber optic and copper data communication cabling and connectivity
solutions primarily for the enterprise market and various harsh environment
and specialty markets (the non-carrier markets), offering integrated suites
of high quality products which operate as a system solution or seamlessly integrate
with other providers’ offerings. OCC also manufactures and sells a significant
amount of products in the wireless carrier market.
OCC’s product offerings include designs for uses ranging from enterprise
networks, datacenters, residential and campus installations to customized products
for specialty applications and harsh environments, including military, industrial,
mining, petrochemical, wireless carrier and broadcast applications.
OCC products include fiber optic and copper cabling, fiber optic and copper
connectors, specialty fiber optic and copper connectors, fiber optic and copper
patch cords, pre-terminated fiber optic and copper cable assemblies, racks,
cabinets, datacom enclosures, patch panels, face plates, multi-media boxes,
fiber optic reels and accessories and other cable and connectivity management
accessories, and are designed to meet the most demanding needs of end-users,
delivering a high degree of reliability and outstanding performance characteristics.
The OCC team seeks to provide top-tier integrated communication solutions by
bundling our products into systems that provide our customers and end-users
with integrated cabling and connectivity solutions that are well-suited for
their individual data communication and application requirements.
OCC® is internationally recognized for pioneering the design and production
of fiber optic cables for the most demanding military field applications, as
well as of fiber optic cables suitable for both indoor and outdoor use, and
creating a broad product offering built on the evolution of these fundamental
technologies. OCC® is also internationally recognized for its role in establishing
copper connectivity data communications standards through its innovative technologies.
OCC manufactures its fiber optic cables at its ISO 9001:2008 registered and
MIL-STD-790F certified facility located in Roanoke, Virginia, its enterprise
connectivity products primarily at its ISO 9001:2008 registered facility located
near Asheville, North Carolina, and its harsh environment and specialty connectivity
products at its ISO 9001:2008 registered and MIL-STD-790F certified facility
located near Dallas, Texas.
OCC designs, develops and manufactures fiber optic cables for a broad range
of enterprise, harsh environment and specialty markets and applications. We
refer to these products as our fiber optic cable offering. OCC designs, develops
and manufactures fiber and copper connectivity products for the enterprise market,
including a broad range of enterprise and residential applications. We refer
to these products as our enterprise connectivity product offering. OCC designs,
develops and manufactures a broad range of specialty fiber optic connectors
and connectivity products primarily for use in military and other harsh environment
applications. We refer to these products as our harsh environment and specialty
connectivity product offering.
OCC markets and sells our harsh environment and specialty connectivity product
offering through AOS under the names Optical Cable Corporation and OCC®
by the efforts of our integrated OCC sales team.
Optical Cable Corporation owns 70% of the authorized membership interests of
Centric Solutions LLC (“Centric Solutions”). Centric Solutions is
a business founded in 2008 that provides turnkey cabling and connectivity solutions
for the datacenter market. Centric Solutions operates and goes to market independently
from Optical Cable Corporation; however, in some cases, Centric Solutions may
offer products from OCC’s product offering.