Last year, AFL celebrated its 30th birthday. The company has come a long way since 1984 when Alcoa, formerly the Aluminum Company of America, joined forces with Fujikura of Japan to form Alcoa Fujikura Ltd., better known today as AFL.
Anritsu was founded in 1895, the year in which Marconi successfully demonstrated the world’s first wireless telegraph, as a company providing electronic components for the communications industry. Since those early days, the development of Anritsu has traced the emergence of modern communications, and its history has run concurrently with the evolution of information and communication networks.
In 1964 Renato De-Massari and Hans Reichle developed what was, at the time, a revolutionary telephone outlet. Little did they know, but this development laid the cornerstone for Reichle and De-Massari (R&M), which these days employs 750 people in more than 30 countries. The company’s stated goal remains largely the same five decades later: to offer customers top-quality solutions for excellent communication networks.
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January of this year saw Jerry Rawls step down as chief executive of Finisar, a company he had grown from obscurity to worldwide success. He talks to Rebecca Pool about building his empire, the firm’s new CEO and a future that could include Oclaro*