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Reducing FTTH OPEX with the Intelligent Optical Link Mapper (iOLM)

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Reducing FTTH OPEX with the Intelligent Optical Link Mapper (iOLM)

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  • Author: Mario Simard
Since bandwidth demand is growing much faster than revenues, providers have no choice but to massively and rapidly shift toward FTTH deployments, and hire numerous new technicians, many of which are migrating from a copper background to fiber-plant testing. These moves can initially be costly for two main reasons. First, former copper technicians generally lack fiber-testing knowledge, which increases training time. And second, there are fewer experienced technicians who can efficiently test and troubleshoot fiber. With the number of fibers to be tested, chances are that some will be misdiagnosed or wrongly characterized, leading to turn-up and troubleshooting failures, and ultimately additional truck rolls- which have a nagging, upward effect on OPEX.

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