After helping design and build passive optical networks (PON) for 10 towns since 1999, Vince Smith has learned a thing or two about fiber to the premises (FTTP) projects. By the time he was hired in 2003 by Texas-based NTS Communications as an outside plant engineer, Smith had acquired good experience with different architectures as well as with products from different vendors. Just four or five years of experience made Smith an “old hand” in the business—and a valuable part of the NTS business plan for delivering POTS, cable TV and high-speed Ethernet services to residential and business customers in west Texas....

The CopperTen® Augmented Category 6 Angled Patch Panel optimizes 10 Gb/s transmission performance with offset jack positioning to counter the negative effects of alien crosstalk. The angled port design improves all aspects in managing horizontal cable and patch cables while improving density when used with Glide Cable Management. It also makes modifications easy, avoids unintended disconnects and cable damage, and protects bend radius to avoid violations that result in signal degradation.

ADC produces a wide variety of fiber cable assemblies and accessories designed to meet the specific application needs of our customers. From patch cords, multifiber assemblies and connectors to adapters and attenuators, ADC is the choice for the essential products necessary to meet the requirements of today’s high-speed networks.

ADC‘s FL1000 customer premises fiber termination products include a variety of one and two door wall mount panels. These products are designed specifically to act as part of the fiber distribution system as the demarcation point for the service provider at the customers location. Recent improvements to labeling grommets, door latches and ribbon pigtail routing reinforce the value these products bring to the physical layer of any network with higher quality and reliability, greater operational efficiencies and network simplification....

There are three predominant schools of thought regarding how to meet the everincreasing bandwidth needs of consumers and businesses. Fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) architectures take optical fiber all the way to the home or office and offer the most future-proof solution in terms of pure bandwidth capabilities. But in some cases, FTTP may not be the optimal solution in terms of overall cost and the value of existing infrastructure.

Limited floor space and smaller fiber counts often dictate that multiple pieces of communications apparatus share common equipment racks. The FL1000 panel is a more economical solution designed to be mounted within standard 19- or 23-inch EIA equipment racks. Standard flushmount capability is also a key feature.

ADC’s OmniReach™ FTTX Solutions are the industry’s first infrastructure solutions designed from the ground up to meet the unique requirements of FTTX networks. Designed for operational efficiency and scalability, OmniReach solutions simplify FTTX network installation, maintenance and management from the central office/headend to the outside plant.

This product family is a complete line of modular panels developed for rack and wall mounting. The system is fully adaptable to small distribution frames, telephone closet (TC) applications, or active equipment racks. FL2000 panels are designed for both 19- and 23-inch EIA rack or cabinet environments. FL2000 products provide termination, splicing and storage capabilities for in-building cables, outside plant cables and fiber optic terminal (FOT) equipment.

HighBand® 10 Category 5e termination blocks utilize the silver plated, world renowned LSAPLUS ® contact principle. This technology has become the industry standard in over 140 countries. The gas-tight contacts ensure a reliable and long lasting connection. The frequent rewiring that occurs in today’s deployments can quickly degrade the quality of wire terminations. ADC products maintain superior connectivity during hundreds of re-terminations and deliver the best electrical performance in the industry. The HighBand 10 block is available in both preterminated units and field-terminated kits....

Current outside plant (OSP) networks, particularly those deploying fiber, were designed primarily with transport and backhaul in mind – a means to carry telecommunications traffic on and off a larger transport system and usually over long distances. There was little demand for actual service delivery to multiple end users, although an occasional large business customer might require as much as an OC-3 or OC-48, Megabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, or other connection for day-to-day business operations....

In today’s and tomorrow’s fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) architectures, the best solution for offering multiple services to subscribers will be the one that is the most cost effective, flexible, and scalable. With its 65-year history of innovative solutions for managing the physical cable plant, ADC is bringing all its experience to bear in the outside plant (OSP) and fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) markets. Driven by the customer’s need for overall affordability and operational flexibility, ADC is designing and building the first true FTTP solution – from the ground up....

Over the years, more and more people have become experienced in working with optical fiber, particularly in the central office (CO) environment. One bit of knowledge obtained quickly through experience is the importance of fiber cable management and how it can dramatically affect the operational costs of a network. ADC has a wealth of experience in the areas of cable management and slack storage systems that are time-tested and continually improved – but it all begins with pure awareness.

Making cost-sensitive decisions about deploying FTTX architectures requires service providers to not only look at initial installation costs, but to also peer into the future regarding operational and maintenance expenses following service turn-up. Cost modeling allows the deployer to review the financial benefits of their design choices before deployment begins. This paper specifically addresses the cost comparisons between using hardened connectors vs. splices in two basic areas of the FTTX network – the distribution plant and drop cable portions....

FTTH Communications is an integrated provider of voice, video and Internet services in Minneapolis. Delivering services to residential and business customers on an all-fiber network, the FTTH Communications business plan depends upon a combination of low costs, exceptional service, and leading-edge technology to increase both the number of subscribers and overall subscriber satisfaction.

Deploy proper planning to deliver campus infrastructures that can support a technologically rich learning environment, extensive campus construction projects, and customer service while matching technology needs to budgets at Florida State University.

Cable management is an essential consideration in any successful fiber communications network. ADC’s FMT series fiber optic panel enables termination, termination/splicing, termination/ storage, splicing only and slack storage for optical fibers in a compact 1 or 2 RU panel.

Guadalupe Valley Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc. (GVTC) was formed in 1951 and today is the largest telephone cooperative in the state of Texas. Spanning 2,000 square miles in eleven counties to the north and east of San Antonio, GVTC serves over 30,000 customers with more than 43,000 access lines.

The HiGain HXU-358 DS3 multiplexer leverages the benefits of imbedded asynchronous networks by enabling cost-effective direct insertion of DS1s or E1s onto any network via an economical DS3 interface. ADC’s M13 asynchronous multiplexer and T1 testing technology is the highest service density multiplexer available. Space, power and heat dissipation requirements are all minimised. Additional capital costs for T1 testing equipment can be eliminated. All HiGain multiplexers can be used in either the Soneplex Wideband System 3190 (WBS-3190) chassis or the ACE chassis. Upgrading is as simple as replacing the HiGain multiplexer – no costly and time consuming physical changes are required....

ADC’s fiber mux cabinet allows carriers to provide DS1 services to customers previously unreachable due to distance limitations from the central office (CO). By extending fiber into the loop, the Soneplex-equipped cabinets can deliver up to 84 lines of DS1 service using multiple transport technologies like HDSL, HDSL2, HDSL4 and T1, offering carriers a cost-effective solution for delivery of T1 based services.

El crecimiento sin precedentes en la industria de las telecomunicaciones ha llevado al uso extensivo de la fibra óptica en los últimos años. Como resultado de ello, muchos proveedores de servicios descubren que sus bastidores se están sobrepoblando con grandes cantidades de cables con conexiones provisionales de fibra óptica. Además, el rápido desarrollo de SONET e iniciativas de fibra en redundancia y vídeo, ha creado una demanda cada vez mayor de una densidad de terminación en el bastidor repartidor de fibras. Los proveedores de servicio deben construir una infraestructura de red estable que brinde una base sólida para proporcionar los nuevos servicios mejorados de banda ancha...