- CEO
- Philippe Morin
- Full Time Employees
- 1,814
- Sector
- Technology
- Industry
- Communication Equipment
- Address
- 400 Godin Ave Quebec City QC Canada G1M 2K2
- IPO Date
- Aug 20, 2001
- Business
- EXFO Inc. designs, manufactures and markets test, monitoring and analytics solutions for fixed and mobile network operators, hyperscalers, webscale companies, data centers, network equipment manufacturers and service providers in the global telecommunications industry; its core products encompass fiber optic testing instruments including OTDRs such as the OTDR D-series and high-resolution models for metro core, FTTx and PON applications, Optical Xplorer fiber multimeters, photonic integrated circuit testers, high-density optical switches, FTBx-88811 modular platforms supporting 1G to 800G Ethernet, OTN, Fibre Channel and coherent optics like 800ZR, copper testing, 5G and RF testing solutions, Ethernet and network protocol testing, dispersion analysis, light sources, live fiber detection, network synchronization tools, optical spectrum analyzers and benchtop kits; services include field network testing, training, customer care, simulator test services and IP assurance for 2G through 5G networks. Founded in 1985 and headquartered in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, the company operates through direct sales, representatives and distributors across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific, with approximately 1,900 employees supporting customers in over 120 countries. In November 2025, EXFO sold its Adaptive Service Assurance division to Teleo Capital, which relaunched it as NumoData while EXFO retained a minority stake to sharpen focus on test and measurement for AI-driven fiber expansions; recent innovations feature the industry's first hollow-core fiber optimized bi-directional OTDR in September 2025, PON-optimized power meters in early 2024 and ongoing advancements like the Exchange cloud platform for automated field data reporting.