Recognized for their capacity of innovation, the Walloon companies are more and more involved in the framework of major sporting events. For example, numerous cutting edge technologies developed in Wallonia will  be used during the Football World Cup in Brazil. Let us take a closer look at SKYLANE OPTICS, located in Fraire.

Skylane Optics was established 2 years ago to the south of Charleroi and operates in the field of telecommunications. The company now employs 28 people and exports 95% of its expertise around the world.

Skylane Optics will provide telecommunications equipment to convert electrical signals into optical signals at four Brazilian football stadiums during the World Cup. The company was in fact contacted by a Brazilian operator to fit transceivers at the stadiums in Recife, Natal, Fortaleza and Salvador, in north-east Brazil.

These transceivers were designed at the Skylane Optics laboratory in Fraire and are in fact small boxes which convert an electric signal into an optical signal to speed up and optimise data exchange using fibre optics linking the different continents. The product enables television stations to broadcast live matches and private individuals can send photos and videos from their smartphones.

And there is more good news for Skylane Optics: its new Brazil production site has just been opened in Campinas. It already has another one in China and hopes to be able to open another one in Belgium shortly.

Skylane has vast experience with major events as it has already participated in the London Olympics, the World Cup and the Winter Olympics.