Advanced Fibre Communications, Inc | Founding the Company in 1992
Founding the Company in 1992
AFC was founded in May 1992 by Donald Green, James Hoeck, John Webley, and Henri Sulzer. Hoeck and Webley were engineers with DSC Communications, who struck out on their own to design a product ultimately named the Universal Modular Carrier, or UMC 1000. The UMC 1000 was a variation on digital loop carrier technology (DLC) developed in the early 1980s, which used fiber to connect highly concentrated groups of customers, such as those found in a housing development or a rural community, to a telephone company's central office. Because fiber was not used in many locations, Hoeck and Webley developed the UMC 1000, which could use traditional copper wire to connect as few as six and as many as 672 subscribers.
Hoeck and Webley enlisted Donald Green, because of his reputation, management skills, and proven ability to attract venture capital. Green was regarded as the founding father of "Telecom Valley"—Sonoma County, California,...
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