EXFO delivering industry-first combination of Intellisense Systems weather tracking plus remote fiber testing, monitoring and AI analytics solutions to predict and prevent operational failures.
QUEBEC CITY - EXFO, the communications industry's test, monitoring and analytics experts, today announced that
For the first time in such an application, EXFO will also collect data from Intellisense Systems micro weather station (MWS®) Internet of Things (IoT) devices being deployed to measure the specific environmental impact of wind, humidity and meteorological events. EXFO's Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based analytics solution will amalgamate and correlate data from both the fiber optic network and weather system inputs, and dynamically predict, detect, and prevent outages and impairments in the network that might otherwise go unnoticed.
EXFO will measure, analyze, and report results from an 80 km span of the
Quick facts#
- EXFO's optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) fiber monitoring units are being deployed at key nodes on the fiber optic network to monitor its optical transmission characteristics and measure its health and condition.
- Data inputs from both the fiber monitoring units and the Intellisense micro weather station devices will feed into EXFO's SensAI platform which classifies, correlates and groups abnormal events affecting network performance.
- The
- The age of the system and environmental impacts makes faults and failures harder to detect.
- In the long term, improved operational communications networks will be critical for control and protection systems in the transition to renewable energy power stations and the
Quotes:
"EXFO is pleased to support a national-level provider like the
"Operational telecommunications networks are an important part of our critical national infrastructure and play a key role in enabling our transition to a net zero economy by 2050. Large parts of our fiber network are reaching an age where failures may become more frequent and more difficult to address. We are therefore exploring new ways to monitor and model fiber health and its evolution over time to enable optimized planning of refurbishment and replacement interventions," said
About EXFO
EXFO develops smarter test, monitoring and analytics solutions for the global communications industry. We are trusted advisers to fixed and mobile network operators, hyper-scalers and leaders in the manufacturing, development and research sector. They count on us to deliver superior visibility and insights into network performance, service reliability and user experience. Building on over 35 years of innovation, EXFO's unique blend of equipment, software and services enable faster, more confident transformations related to 5G, cloud-native and fiber optic networks.
More about EXFO's Adaptive Service Assurance solutions is available here. https://www.exfo.com/en/solutions/service-assurance-solutions/
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