 Our History
In 1995, Pamela Trefethen, a New Hampshire
native, began assembling cables at home when her husband, Bruce, took custom
cable orders from customers who had been turned away by the electronics
company he worked for. These first
cable assemblies were the catalyst for a new enterprise.
Since 1990, Bruce had been selling components of data communication
systems, including fiber optics. He
became a certified fiber optic trainer and he offered classes to customers
who purchased fiber optic termination tools. However, he discovered that many of his
customers decided that the work was too difficult due to the small size and
fragile nature of the materials.
Pamela found the fiber cables particularly interesting, and soon
discovered that she had the knack for attaching the connectors to the
cable. “It’s just like
threading a needle – only your thread is a piece of glass, so you have
to get it right the first try or it breaks,” says Pamela.
Bruce and Pamela soon had to hire part-time help to keep up with all
the orders. In 1997 Bruce decided to
leave his job and join Pamela full-time.
“It was a big step of faith, but it has been rewarding, and
I’d definitely do it again,” Bruce asserts.
By 1998, the employees began noticing that the basement workshop was
getting pretty crowded, with racks of cable, pegboard walls covered with
tools, and workbenches scattered with cables in progress. The Trefethens
began looking at their options.
Working with a local real estate office they found a building on Rte
202 & 9 in Barrington, New
Hampshire that suited their needs perfectly. After renovations, Quality Interconnect
Cabling moved to its new home in December of 1999.
The primary focus of Quality Interconnect Cabling is on fiber optic
cabling, creating cable assemblies in-house as well as terminating and
testing for customers at their locations.
Quality Interconnect Cabling still specializes in custom cable
assemblies, and just recently became approved to make the new DataMax 6, category 6, cable assemblies by Quabbin Wire and Cable.
Quality Interconnect Cabling has a strong commitment to customer
satisfaction, and works to give their customers the best quality possible by
testing every single cable with up-to-date, high-tech instruments and test
equipment, including an automatic fiber polishing machine and a brand new
interferometer for testing fiber optic assemblies.
Our Mission
To provide the communications market with Quality Interconnect
Cabling products. QIC has built a reputation of providing the best possible
products at a fair price, delivered when you need them.
Our Guarantee
Our work is guaranteed to meet or exceed all applicable standards of
each product at the time of manufacture. All of our cable products are
individually tested before shipping. Documentation is available upon request.
For
more information contact: info@q-i-c.com
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