Iranian Researchers Save Hefty amount of Funds by Locally Manufacturing Telecommunication Equipment

An Iranian knowledge-based company which operates at the science and technology park located on the campus of Sharif University of Technology has achieved the world-class knowhow to locally manufacture optical communication equipment to save Iran millions of dollars by preventing the imports of similar equipment from overseas.

“Our company started operation in 2002 through the efforts of professors, graduates and distinguished students of Sharif University of Technology and the University of Tehran. Our mission is to help organizations, companies and businesses to create optical communication infrastructure and sound and data transmission equipment. The company helps the professors and students put into practice their plans and ideas,” said Mohammad Reza Pakravan, managing director of that company who is also a professor at Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Sharif University, according to a report by the Sharif’s public relations department.

“The optical fiber technology is very important due to the high speed of data transmission through it. Optical fiber lays the ground for high-speed data transmission from one place to another remote place at a very high speed. 99.5% of the telecommunications networks across the country's provinces and the Internet network operate with optical fiber, which has special infrastructures, cables and devices that are used by telecommunication companies. Construction of those equipment, which is a very difficult and complicated job, is done by our company. These devices are produced in a limited number of countried. Due to Iran's sanctions, it was impossible to import them over the past years, but we were able to produce them and give them to companies and organization that have fiber optic cables after holding numerous consultations and meetings with them and getting acquainted with their needs,” the professor said.

Pakrovan continued to say that optical fiber can also be used in industries such as electricity, oil and gas. For example, optical fiber is used in the electricity industry in the communication between substations and commands to control and collect substation information.

Fiber-optic communication is a method of transmitting information from one place to another by sending pulses of infrared light through an optical fiber, online studies define the material.

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