Original Broadcast Date: October 28, 2025
Duration: 1 hour
Summary
As fiber demand accelerates across campuses, industrial sites, and other mid-size projects, network builders are under pressure to deploy quickly while preparing for future growth. Air blown fiber (ABF) technology offers a flexible, cost-effective way to install optical networks with minimal disruption, allowing capacity to expand as demand increases, without costly overbuilds or downtime.
This webinar will explore how ABF helps overcome today’s supply chain challenges and tariff-driven price pressures, enabling faster deployment and long-term scalability for diverse network environments.
Speakers
Yuko Agano
Project Manager
Sumitomo Electric Lightwave
Yuko Agano is the Product Manager of FutureFLEX Air Blown Fiber for Sumitomo Electric Lighwawave (SEL). Yuko was born and raised in Japan, moved to the United States when she was 19 years old to receive a higher education. Upon completion of her Bachelor of Science from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and Master of Business Administration from University of Phoenix, she returned to Japan and worked as a U.S. government contractor and Japanese government employee at a U.S. military installation in Japan for over five years supporting military operations. Yuko returned to U.S. in 2014 to work for Sumitomo subsidiary, Innovation Core SEI in Silicon Valley to research into next generation technologies. In 2018, Yuko relocated to North Carolina and joined SEL in her current role.
