KEEPING AMERICA UP TO SPEED™
Why OFS?
We support Electric Membership Cooperatives (EMC) to bring high-speed internet to rural areas and communities. We will work with you from a project’s inception by providing professional fiber network design through to its long-term sustainability. Our fiber services for electric cooperatives are positioned to build and deliver next-generation abilities to your customers.
As an original inventor of fiber technology, OFS has a deep understanding of fiber networks and have been involved with utility-based fiber networks for decades. As a partner and participant in large scale FTTH deployments, we know how to efficiently engineer, furnish, and install networks on both small and large scale.
What We Do
OFS Professional Services will design, furnish, and install all material and labor required to install fiber from central office/substation locations to the Optical Network central office/substation locations to the Optical Network Terminal (ONT). For more information please download our Fiber Services for Electric Cooperatives Solutions Guide.
What We Provide
We understand the special challenges in building rural fiber networks and have fiber optic cables and associated products specifically designed for these applications.
Our History
Emmy® award-winning OFS is an original inventor of fiber. From the legacy of Bell Labs fiber development, we’re responsible for inventions as important to the fiber optic industry as the LC connector, gel-free cables, and zero water peak fiber. We have decades of experience with utility fiber optic applications, including a 30+ year deployment history with ADSS cables. We manufacture fiber in Norcross (Atlanta) Georgia, and cable in Carrollton, Georgia. You can trust your network to OFS.
AT&T acquires the assets of American Bell. AT&T breakup. Lucent Technologies, a spin-off of Bell Labs and AT&T’s manufacturing operations, is created. Furukawa Electric Group acquires Lucent’s optical fiber business. OFS is created.
