Centralized Fiber Testing and Monitoring Solutions
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OTDR are commonly known to network operators as portable units, but EXFO also integrates them in rackmount equipment along with optical switch and controller units. These are used to perform on demand troubleshooting of any fiber connecting to the equipment, whether it transports live traffic or not, and whether it is connected permanently or temporary. Routine maintenance tests can therefore be schedule and automated to dramatically simplify this process.
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Optical Fiber Maintenance at a Lower Cost
EXFO offers various optical testing instruments and system configurations to help you reduce support and maintenance related expenses. Here are some of the available configuration and options:
- Dark fiber testing and monitoring for any fiber cable network
- In service, in band CWDM testing and monitoring
- In service, out od band 1625 nm or 1650 nm testing and monitoring
- Stand alone, fully autonomous test equipment
- External 1xn optical switch (up to 128 ports)
- Doubel stage m x n test port (expansion capablities)
- Remotely controlled optical switch unit
- Distributed client server application with central management
- Reporting engine based on alarm duration and fiber downtime
- Network documentations on GIS platform with fault on map
- Water/humidity sensors to be located into splice enclosure
- Integration with fault or work ticket management system(s)
- Integration with network inventory/GIS solutions
- Integration with BSS/OSS in general
Fiber Monitoring Topology, In-service and Dark Fiber Monitoring
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With an OTDR set in one location, shared among your technical staff and also accessible through other systems, you can change the way you support your network and your customers. Web access is standard on all EXFO platforms; from any location and from any computer linked to a VPN in your corporate network. You are therefore able to perform OTDR testing of define and start a preventive test cycle in order to identity recurrent issues on your fiber network.
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In additional to boositng the efficiency of your technical workforce, tou can speed up link failure root cause analysis and save two to five hours per event, therefore accelerating time to repair with better quality information about the nature and location of the reported fiber/cable fault.
Other benefits and application include:
- Notification of fiber/cable outages big or small within minutes through e-mail or sms
- Correlation of network alarms generated from any application or equipment and rooted to the optical layer
- Faster dispatching of repair teams to the exact location
- MTTR and fiber availability measurement, and higher KPIs
- Faster impact analysis with proper inventory of service relations
- Pre-activation test of a new link or before switching traffic to an unknown fiber route
- Continuously updated inventory as the OTDR explores your network
- Better field staff support through remote testing, e.g : after restoration is complete
- Up to date health status for specific regions or the entire network
- Assessments of your network aging process through yearly measurement comparisons
Example of a real-life cable-attenuation trend analysis
( For more information about Fiber Monitoring, Click here )
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