ST. LOUIS -- Graybar, North America's largest distributor of telecommunications, networking and electrical products, is adding Corning Cable Systems to its VIP Fiber assurance program, the company announced today. The VIP Fiber program is the distribution industry's first, independent comprehensive laboratory test for multimode fiber optic cabling systems. VIP Fiber's impartial pass-fail data is designed to identify product failures, allowing Graybar to always offer customers only the best-performing solutions.Corning Cable Systems, a leading Graybar supplier of fiber opticcable, including its LANscape® Solutions, has passed VIP Fiber's rigoroustesting and certification procedures, which screen components for theirperformance and interoperability in advance of installation anddeployment."With the addition of Corning Cable Systems to the VIP Fiber roster offirst-in-class suppliers, we can work with our customers to assure them ofeven greater performance reliability when purchasing and deployingmultimode fiber for network offices and industrial facilities," saidDennis DeSousa, senior vice president, Comm./Data Business, Graybar."Corning Cable Systems' leadership in the fiber optics market givesGraybar's VIP Fiber program an even better competitive edge during thisperiod of market growth - raising the bar for performance in providingcabling solutions for our customers deploying high-speed fiber networks,"DeSousa added.Corning Inc.Graybar