Firecomms Ltd of Cork, Ireland and Tongxiang, China has signed a representative agreement for Victory Sales to offer its fiber-optic transceiver products to key industrial automation, transportation, and medical businesses in north central USA.

“Firecomms’ resonant-cavity LED fiber-optic technology delivers major improvements in performance and cost over competing fiber optic products,” comments Dan Triplett, corporate line manager, Victory Sales.

As an extension of Firecomms’ in-house sales team, Victory provides a sizable team, employing 26 sales engineers out of a total staff of 36, and serving customers in 14 states within the north central region. “With a proven consultative selling technique, the company is very successful in working with key accounts in the north central USA,” comments Lawrence Thorne, Firecomms’ VP of sales & marketing, The Americas.

In mid-November, Firecomms announced full production and shipping of its new RedLink line of fiber-optic transmitters and receivers for the industrial command, control and communications markets. The RedLink series of DC-capable transmitters and receivers are drop-in compatible with the Versatile Link range of products. RedLink devices are suited to low-speed and DC-capable applications, such as IGBT/thyristor control and fault feedback or field I/O, in areas where immunity from harmful electro-magnetic interference (EMI) or high-voltage signals is required.