Without fiber monitoring, high-bandwidth services are always at risk of disruption, often with significant negative impact on customers. As soon as service providers invest in a proactive solution that measures the integrity of their fiber plant, they can efficiently isolate faults and take immediate targeted action. This dramatically shortens repair cycles and avoids unnecessary truck rolls. So why have many service providers been slow to implement in-service fiber monitoring solutions until now? In the past, fiber testing technology was designed for reactive measurement, while proactive solutions often failed to meet the cost and practicality requirements of many networks. Now a technology exists to address this urgent need.

With a pure Ethernet core, our Total Access 5000 (TA5000) Series is a 10Gbit/s fiber access platform that supports 10G Combo PON, GPON, XGS-PON, point-to-point, Active Ethernet and dedicated Carrier Ethernet services, among others. It easily scales to support even the most bandwidth-intensive applications. The TA5000 Series provides the bandwidth and Ethernet switching capabilities needed to deliver a highly profitable service offering and bridges the gap between existing and next-generation networks – like 10G PON.