Challenges: Fitzpatrick quickly recruited a world-class management team, rebuilt the company’s infrastructure, and reformulated a strategic plan. Together with Sanjay Subhedar, COO of E-TEK, he then proposed a new direction to the board. “We saw that E-TEK’s major products were becoming commodities, while a new technology called ‘Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM)’ held promise,” says Fitzpatrick. WDM technology allows network operators to increase the capacity of their existing fiberoptic networks. The only complication: E-TEK couldn’t buy several critical components, which were distributed only through a competitor, to complete the WDM process. Learn more about E-TEK Dynamics Inc
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