ExceLight Communications Inc
ExceLight meets the evolving demands of the telecom, CATV, and broadband markets with a wider range of products, greater flexibility in meeting customer requirements, improved customer service, and higher levels of integration. ExceLight not only services the largest OEM's, but ensures special attention to smaller players and startups as well.
ExceLight offers analog and digital lasers for telecom, CATV, and broadband applications, ITU lasers for dense and coarse wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM and CWDM) applications, pump lasers for fiber amplifier applications, and a complete line of optical data transmitters, receivers and transceivers. Passive products include, DWDM/CWDM mux/demux modules, optical add/drop modules, splitters, and fiber Bragg gratings. In addition, ExceLight's design center facilitates customers' needs for specific requirements.
ExceLight is led by a management team with more that 60 years of experience in optical communications. Mr Yuji Hamasaki, President and CEO, joined Sumitomo Electric after receiveing a master's degree in electrical enginering from University of Tokyo. He was very active in defining communication component specifications with the FDDI standards committee and has held various engineering and marketing management positions in both Japan and the United States while with Sumitomo Electric. Before taking the helm at ExceLight, he most recently was a general manager in Japan developing digital communication systems for cable industry and telecommunication providers.
Mr. Tim Yamada, Manager of Business Planning and Technical Operations, began working in optical transmission at Sumitomo Electric after receiving a degree in electrical telecommunications from Waseda University. After further experience as a senior engineer in charge of developing optical devices and data links, Mr. Yamada joined Sumitomo Electric Lightwave in 1999 in his current position.
Mr.Ed Miskovic, Director of Marketing, was a marketing director for Sumitomo Electric Lightwave. With a degree in physics from John Carroll University and graduate work in optical communications at San Diego State University, Mr. Miskovic brings over 25 years' experience to fiber optics in corporate management, business development, component and system engineering, research and development, and sales and marketing. Previous to his position at Sumitomo Electric, he founded Optic Logic Corporation, which manufactured the first commercially-available diode laser reliability test system. Mr. Miskovic also served as a product marketing director at E-Tek Dynamics.
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., ExceLight's parent company, traces its roots back almost 400 years to the founding of the Sumitomo family of Companies. Established in 1897 to manufacture bare copper wire, SEI has advanced to become one of the world's leading edge forces in the research and development of high-technology products and systems to the communications, electronics, energy, automotive, and materials industries. With over 200 subsidiaries and affiliated companies worldwide, Sumitomo had sales of $13 billion last year.