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Corning ClearCurve® Multimode Fiber Passes 750,000 Kilometers Sold  to Worldwide Customers  

CORNING, N.Y., September 29, 2011 -- Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) announced today that it has sold more than 750,000 kilometers (km) of Corning® ClearCurve® multimode optical fiber. Broad market acceptance of ClearCurve multimode optical fiber is evident by the more than 4 million terminations globally deployed. ClearCurve multimode optical fiber has been sold to more than 80 customers in 20 countries around the world.

“Reaching the 750,000-km milestone demonstrates broad customer acceptance of the ClearCurve multimode product,” said Barry Linchuck, division vice president and director, worldwide marketing, Corning Optical Fiber. “We are pleased to offer ClearCurve multimode fiber as our standard 50-micron product to our customers. ClearCurve multimode fiber withstands tight bends and challenging cabling routes with up to 10 times less signal loss than traditional multimode fibers.”

ClearCurve multimode fiber is the world’s first laser-optimized, high-bandwidth, fully standard-compliant multimode fiber to withstand tight bends down to 7.5 mm radius with substantially less signal loss than traditional multimode fibers. Superior bend performance enables efficient optical cable routing and installation and additionally provides spare operating margin.

Traditionally, when an optical cable experiences tight bends, some of the light can escape from the fiber core and part of the signal can be lost. Corning ClearCurve multimode fiber is designed to keep the light within the fiber core, even under tight bends, and better maintain the integrity of the optical fiber signal.

Corning ClearCurve multimode fiber meets or exceeds the ISO/IEC 11801 OM2, OM3, and OM4 product standards for high-bandwidth, laser-optimized multimode fiber.

   

About Corning Incorporated

 
Corning Incorporated  is the world leader in specialty glass and ceramics. Drawing on 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