ADC and Tyco Electronics, a global provider of engineered electronic components, network solutions, specialty products and undersea telecommunication systems, reportedly have reached FTTX licensing agreement.

 

Giving this information, ADC officials said that Tyco Electronics (News - Alert) has taken a license to certain ADC patents directed to fiber-to-the-premises technology.

 

Company officials said that the licensing agreement between the two fiber optic connectivity market leaders settles existing litigation between the companies.

ADC’s (News - Alert) patents relate to fiber distribution hubs, optical splitter modules and fiber drop terminals that are widely deployed in the FTTX environment.

 

The company officials said that for ADC, the license provides acknowledgment of the company’s FTTX patent portfolio by another industry leader in the FTTX market.

 

“ADC has an industry standard license available to our FTTX portfolio,” said Jaxon Lang, vice president Global Connectivity Solutions Americas for ADC, in a statement.

 

Lang said that with Tyco Electronics agreeing to take a license to ADC’s portfolio, it provides recognition of the value of the portfolio by companies making fiber distribution hubs and fiber drop terminals for the FTTX market.

 

ADC provides the connections for wireline, wireless, cable, broadcast and enterprise networks around the world.

 

ADC says that its network infrastructure equipment and professional services enable high-speed Internet, data, video and voice services to residential, business and mobile subscribers.

 

In June TMCnet reported that Duke University selected ADC’s FlexWave and InterReach Fusion distributed antenna systems to improve wireless coverage and capacity across its campus in Durham, N.C.

 

Duke University officials said that although served by traditional cell towers around the property, the campus has many buildings and outdoor areas that do not receive adequate coverage or capacity.

 

The university is addressing this challenge with a hybrid solution that uses ADC’s FlexWave outdoor DAS along with its InterReach Fusion in-building DAS to extend coverage to new areas, including the East and West campuses, the Law School addition, and the expansion of the Fuqua School of Business.

ADC officials said in a release that the hybrid approach allows for coverage ubiquity inside and outside buildings without sacrificing the visual integrity of the campus.