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When setting up a network, planning for the future is arguably just as important as catering to the needs of the present.
Advances in technology have ensured that connection speeds are faster and more reliable than ever before, but also prove that today's technology is always likely be in the rearview mirror of tomorrow's.
Service providers have found the process of predicting what their infrastructure will look like in the future a particularly challenging proposition, but luckily there could soon be a solution.
CommScope a leader in creating communications network infrastructure solutions, has announced that it is to enhance it range of fibre products and services with a view to helping communication service providers to deal with customer demand and plan for the future, offering speed, simplicity, and perhaps most crucially, financial savings.
With the recent acquisition of TE Connectivity's telecom, enterprise and wireless business, CommScope has significantly expanded its fibre connectivity solutions.
Werner de Wolf, senior vice president of Service Provider Solutions, CommScope, said: "The past decade brought disruption and diversification for service providers as they faced new competition and demands from consumers.
"Driving fibre deeper in the network can help address the need for speed, simplicity and savings.”
During a demonstration at the 2016 FTTH Connect in Nashville, CommScope offered an insight into its innovative solutions for reducing the time and cost to roll out extensive fibre deployments for fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) and fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) networks.
The company outlined two main ways of helping providers achieve their ambitions. The first includes allowing daisy chain service terminals, rather than star configuration, to use plug-and-play connectors, which it claims will help reduce labour costs and increase deployment speeds.
The second, adding pre-connectorised cables that aid faster deployment and reduce the amount of cabling needed.
Commscope estimates that these approaches can get fibre networks deployed up to 70 percent faster, creating major savings for operators , but speed is of course just one factor important to building out a new network.
Key to its new portfolio is the easy-to-install Rapid Fibre System, which reduces fibre cable congestion and offers easy installation. For further simplicity, CommScope recently added Rapid Fibre solutions for multi-dwelling units with pre-terminated connections and integrated over length management to help minimise issues as well as speed up deployment.
Another way of maximising investments is to implement a fibre distribution hub (FDH), the latest being the FDH4000, which features a sealed closure designed for use in underground locations.
Not only is it scalable for up to 144 distribution and 12-72 feeder ports, but it also allows service providers to rapidly increase capacity with a minimal financial outlay.
