Arcom Labs is a privately held, full service manufacturer of traps and filters in the cable television industry. It is a vertically integrated company with five manufacturing operations and daily filter production between 40,000 and 50,000 units. The company has developed scrambling systems such as SAWDEC, and invented tools such as the return step attenuator to battle problems with noise in the return band. Arcom also produces all types of single and multiple channel traps and band segmentation filters, many types of return band noise suppression filters, cable equalizers, addressable switches, addressable converters, NICAM and A2 Stereo Encoders and custom designs suited to the needs of OEMs. Arcom Labs has headquarters in Syracuse, N.Y.
Visual Technologies Corporation, established in 1954 as Visual Aid Equipment Corporation, received its current name in 1996. Based in Syracuse, N.Y., the firm is an audio/visual equipment dealer and provider of telecommunications services. It offers a diverse range of equipment, such as slide projectors, data projectors, audio cassette players, auditorium sound systems, camcorders and nonlinear video production systems among others. Some of the firm s professionals are recipients of the Certified Technology Specialist (CTS) recognition. It caters to a host of clients, including Allen Tate, American Red Cross, Carrier Corporation, Cornell University, Hamilton College, Make-A-Wish Foundation and New York State Manufactured Housing. Visual Technologies Corporation represents manufacturers, such as SHARP, Pioneer, HP, Toshiba, etc.
