Fiber-Conn assemblies and LoDan's optical division merge

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson, is merging its Fiber-Conn Assemblies Inc. division and the optical division of LoDan International to form a consolidated opticalinterconnect assembly group.

The new Optical Connectivity (www.conn-solutions.com) division will be headed by Michael Dahan, currently president of Fiber-Conn. The division will operate two product lines: Fiber-Conn Premise Products, headed by John Ehrenreich, and Enterprise Products, headed by Matthew Mannell. Fiber-Conn Premise provides products for LAN and WAN applications; Enterprise provides products for SAN and enterprise computing markets. The Optical Connectivity division will report to Harold Bevis, president of Emerson Telecommunication Products and group vice president of Emerson.

Optical Connectivity will be headquartered near Baltimore, MD and will have manufacturing operations in Maryland and New Jersey as well as Casablanca, Morocco.