The industrial fiber optic networking product line of Weed Instrument was established through the acquisitions of Apec Electronics in 1991 and the EOTec business of the 3M Company in 1994. Over the years we have continued to invest in the development of these products by adding new protocols, features and capabilities. We were the first company to receive Factory Mutual (FM) hazardous area certification for fiber optic converters. In addition, we pioneered the development of Self-Healing Ring technology which provides high reliability, media redundant PLC/DCS communications (Patent #6,307,652). Recently, we introduced the EOTec 2104 Ethernet Ring Switch which provides an economical solution to the combination of high performance ring redundancy with Ethernet communications.