HARDWARE EQUIPMENT

HARDWARE EQUIPMENT. Means the business unit of Corning that deals with: (a) fiber optic hardware including without limitation fiber optic connectors, adapters, the purchase and resale of variable attenuators, fixed attenuators, fiber optic cable assemblies, joint wrappers/covers, splitters and taps (fused fiber), and filters; (b) cable installations including without limitation inside or outside plant, or premises networks installations, data, CATV, or... telephone network electrical or fiber optic joints or terminations including without limitation electrical circuit connection or protection, distribution frames and components, digital subscriber lines and splitters, housings, network interface devices, measurement devices (i.e., OTDRs, hand-held optical meters for testing optical circuits such as for wavelength and power measurement and optical traffic and throughput and traffic indication, fault locators), testers and test units; (c) aerial network transmission products including without limitation lashing, fastening, jointing, terminating or insulating; (d) splicing equipment including without limitation optical fusion splicing equipment; and (e) fiber optic hardware and equipment for marine or submarine networks. View More