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ABS Cables Limited is
one of Bangladesh's
leading Optical Fiber
Cable manufacturing
companies. The core
strength of the company
traps the light in the core. ABS has no intention of slowing lies in its manufacturing
There is one Bangladeshi company down; they are dedicated to achieving
that has taken the challenge head-on bigger goals. ABS has set its sights to process, it uses Fourth
and has been delivering international become the benchmark global Generation German
right signals lose less energy as it is standard optical fibers for various manufacturing company for the fiber Technology Machineries
transmitted; therefore, low powered projects across the country for several industry. They want to achieve this
transmitters can be used instead of the years. ABS Cables Limited is one of goal by providing world-class for production, and its
high-voltage transmitters needed for Bangladesh's leading Optical Fiber products which upholds the standard quality has been hailed
copper wires. These qualities make Cable manufacturing companies. The of quality and reliability of the
optical fiber a cheaper and more core strength of the company lies in company. The vision of ABS is as even better than the
effective option. its manufacturing process, it uses continuous improvement through imported foreign
Over the past decade, Bangladesh has Fourth Generation German Technolo- innovation, integrity, teamwork and products.
experienced a strong surge of growth in gy Machineries for production, and creativity.
most of the development indices-span- its quality has been hailed as even
ning from the economy to human and better than the imported foreign
social development. It has been made products. The fact that sets ABS apart
possible by the Government's Vision from its contemporaries is its
2021, which aimed to turn Bangladesh dedication to maintain standard and
into a middle-income country by 2021. heavily on imported optical fiber cables. quality. The company manufactures
One of the critical tools for achieving Importing such massive amounts of it fiber cables under the aspect of
Vision 2021 was the earmarking of the meant our country was losing foreign reliability, productivity, process
'Digital Bangladesh' approach, as a tool reserves and it was heavily dependent on repeatability and hence, quality
for development and sustainability. The the international supply chain for an assurance is supported by a broad
aim is to transform Bangladesh into a essential tool of development. However, range of measuring and control
Across our World, hair-thin beyond the communication or at a much higher speed than technologically advanced nation by locally manufactured optical fibers were technology. Every single variant of
optical fiber carries vast data transmittance sectors. The copper wires. It is possible 2021. The adaptation of fiber optic virtually absent in the market as the their cables are certified by Bangla-
quantities of information. Its fiber optic cable has been used because the speed of light is cables has been pivotal in digitalisation production required advanced technical desh Standards & Testing Institution
ability to transmit data using for the advancement in such greater than the speed of of the country. It is faster, cheaper and knowledge and support. Manufacturing (BSTI), ISO 9001 and certification
pulses of light has opened the diverse areas as Medicine, electrons. As they are thinner, has more capacity to carry information optical fiber is a precise, highly techni- process is going on for Environmental
door for many world-changing Mechanics, and Quantum more fibers can be put into the required for the digital age. Rapid cal, and specialised process, both Management System ISO 14001. They
innovations in medicine, Computing. same size cable as the tradition- adaptation of optical fiber has played a single-mode and multimode fiber are are the primary suppliers of fiber
manufacturing, and communi- It has some distinct advantages al copper cable. It results in crucial role in turning the dream of composed of two concentric glass optic cable for some of the most
cations. However, the advan- over traditional copper wires. more phone lines or TV Digital Bangladesh into reality. structures--the core, which carries the renowned ICT companies in Bangla-
tages of fiber optics go well Fiber optic cables transmit data channels per cable. Also, the In the past, Bangladesh used to rely light signals, and the cladding, which desh.

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