FiberZone

The telecommunications industry is undergoing tremendous change to meet the increasing complexity of today's electronic systems. The global demand for more bandwidth to support mobile applications such as smartphone usage for accessing data and video online is driving this change. As network capacity and customers' dependence on advanced service availability grow, ensuring high service availability in both developed and developing markets becomes critical. To take advantage of deployment flexibility and lower management costs, datacenter and network operators are aggressively deploying infrastructure to support new cloud services. Critical to the cost-effective and successful rollout of these services is Automation.

The last manually-operated portion of these new infrastructures, are the Fiber network. Faults in the physical fiber infrastructure cause severe adverse impact on network operators. Network downtime damages customer satisfaction, results in significant disruption in network operations, and reduces profits through loss of revenue and payment of service level agreement (SLA) penalties.

FiberZone's AFM automates fiber infrastructure by facilitating remote and automated end-to-end provisioning, troubleshooting, maintenance, and record keeping. FiberZone's AFM not only significantly reduces operational expenditures, it allows datacenter and network operators to offer new differentiated cloud services, while eliminating the cost of downtown associated with the manual operation of the fiber infrastructure.

Automated Fiber Management

The FiberZone Automated Fiber Management (AFM) family of automated connectivity solutions enables facility operators to deliver new services, design and operate networks efficiently and flexibly, improve customer service and network performance, and quickly recover from equipment port and fiber faults. The FiberZone AFM product line is the first of its kind to deliver the attributes and reliability of a manual connectivity product while offering the benefits of remote control and automation.

Based on FiberZone's Latched Optical Coupling (LOC™) technology, the AFM delivers superb optical performance and complete traffic protection in a carrier-class platform. The AFM can be deployed globally in fiber-rich environments and is completely transparent to transport protocol, wavelength and signal speed, and supports a low insertion loss.

AFM transforms the manual fiber infrastructure into a fully automated and managed layer, enabling network operators to remotely provision optical connections while automatically maintaining accurate inventory records. Operators can perform remote testing, monitoring and troubleshooting of any fiber with AFM value-added modules (VAMs) that integrate with test and monitoring equipment for Remote Fiber Test System (RFTS), Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) , Bit Error Rate (BER) test access, and Automated Fiber Recovery (AFR).

AFM Features

  • High-Density Non-blocking Switching
  • In-service Scalability
  • Superb Optical Performance
  • Reliable Passive Connectivity
  • Protocol and Bit-rate Agnostic
  • Carrier-Class Certification
  • Flexible Connectivity Options
  • Powerful Management Software with Graphical User Interface
  • Synchronized Database and Auto-Discovery
  • Value-Added Module (VAM)


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