ADTRAN Holdings, Inc. announced that South Central Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (SCRTC) is using its ALM in-service fiber monitoring solution to continuously probe its fiber network for faults and degradations. The comprehensive assurance platform empowers SCRTC to locate and resolve issues before they impact services for its customers across South Central Kentucky. With no need to engage in time-consuming manual fault isolation, SCRTC can leverage its maintenance resources more effectively to improve service delivery for its subscribers.

To enhance scalability, SCRTC has implemented Adtran?s ALM 96-port expansion unit at three of its hub sites. This enables efficient monitoring of up to 110 fiber links from a single hub location, significantly enhancing SCRTC?s capability to proactively detect and address faults. SCRTC is using the 16-port variant of Adtran?s ALM to continuously monitor its core fiber network and high-traffic routes alongside the 96-port extender at three hub sites.

A key component of SCRTC?s network management system is Adtran?s GIS-based tracking solution, Ensemble Fiber Director. This works with ALM to precisely track the location of issues and ensure optimized oversight of SCRTC?s full optical infrastructure. The system acts like a radar that continuously scans fiber optic cables to pinpoint the location of issues such as attenuation, water damage and breaks.

By identifying problems early and enabling maintenance teams to immediately track them down, ALM also helps reduce SCRTC?s operational and capital expenditures. What?s more, its fanless operation and low power consumption further contribute to network efficiency and cost-effectiveness.