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As the Sports Video Group blog notes, our fellow sponsor Gepco International was recently acquired by General Cable. You probably aren't aware that General Cable actually made the first commercial low loss fiber optic cable back in 1974. When I was at Corning back in the early days we were just making multimode fiber (50/125 micron step-index, with an acrylate coating), but we had no way to ruggedize it. We teamed with General Cable, the largest independent telephone cable manufacturer, while our partner/rival AT&T were designing their own cable at Western Electric. The cable was a rather large steel armored telco design, and it was installed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and at Arnold Research Organization in Tennessee. That partnership dissipated as we at Corning went on to develop our own cable, the tactical (PU/Kevlar) Corguide-6, in 1975 for the Army.
General Cable was also the manufacturer of what Steve Nelson named Kermit, the small, green, friendly duplex patchcord cable used by CBS at the second Space Shuttle landing.
Our congratulations go out to both Gepco and General Cable on finding and teaming with such esteemed partners.
Working with SVG has been valuable to us and the sports video industry. We are a proud sponsor of their efforts.
