How to innovatively solve the pain points of optical cable operation and maintenance?

Optical cable operation and maintenance pain points

Pain point 1: The optical cable is interrupted. Natural disasters, engineering accidents, tree growth, etc., can easily cause interruption of optical cable lines. Every time the fiber optic cable is interrupted, various emergency calls are made to limit the number of hours to repair the fiber optic cable.

Pain point 2: Daily manual inspection. Every time I do an inspection, I carry the equipment with a lot of record data, run a line, and test a fiber optic cable. In general, low efficiency, low accuracy, time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Pain point 3: The huge number of fiber cores, especially the idle fiber cores as spare resources, lack effective monitoring methods and cannot grasp their health status. Every time you want to enable a new fiber core resource, you need to re-test it again and again.

traditional solution

In the face of the above pain points, the current traditional solutions mainly include the following:

Solution 1: Configure the optical line protection device OLP to realize automatic switching of fiber breakage. But the shortcomings are also obvious: the fault point cannot be located, and the health status of the fiber core cannot be grasped at any time.

Option 2: Use a manual handheld OTDR tester for inspection and fault location. The disadvantages are also obvious, requiring a lot of manpower, material resources and time costs.

Option 3: Configure optical cable monitoring equipment. However, a single detection device cannot locate the fault point, there is no service protection switching, and the monitoring method is very simple.