Central office, or head-end, is a hub or centrally located point in a service provider network at which a conglomerate signal is distributed to optical nodes in neighborhoods or premise locations, carrying voice, data and/or video services to end users.

For most service providers, fiber optics represent a larger segment of the network infrastructure in and out of the central office. This technology allows for a larger amount of bandwidth to be fed in to the central office and processed, redirected, and/or distributed to the downstream network.

D-CONNECT central office products are designed and manufactured to provider superior performance and durability for a multitude of applications from switch interconnects to outside plant.

Racks

Sub-Racks or Patch Panels

Rack Mount Splitter Panel

Fiber Raceway System

As the need for broadband networks increases, fiber deployments will continue to accelerate globally. Large-scale outside plant fiber optic backbone and fiber-to-the-x (FTTx) deployments can be very challenging, though, as they are extremely complex, the cost/investment is considerable, accessing buildings/homes is complicated, skilled/experienced fiberlabor is difficult to find, competitive time-to-market pressures are great, and there are financial, legal and technical risks.

The D-CONNECT OSP solution addresses these challenges by designing and building the physical infrastructure for your outside plant fiber optic backbone routes and FTTx access networks. This service solution helps to ensure your outside plant designs are optimized and your deployment projects are implemented seamlessly, according to technical specifications and schedule and budget constraints, by reducing deployment intervals, costs, complexity and risks.

Fiber Optic Cables

Joint Enclosures

Manholes and Handholes

Street Cabinets

Inside Plant refers to communications network that resides on the customer's premises whether it is a home or business.

Riser Cables

Drop Cables

Optical Splitters

Wall Mount Boxes

Fiber Rosette

Patch Cords and Pigtails

The concept of Smart Cities – or in a broader sense Smart Regions – relies on the availability of analysed information that triggers certain actions. For example, this includes but is not limited to traffic or energy management or the provision of public services in health and education. This idea is usually associated with industry buzz words such as Industry 4.0, Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT), ie. the idea that everything is connected and everything creates data that can be utilised in some way.

However, what seems to be frequently ignored is the fact that collecting data alone does not make a city or region smart. It is the application of algorithms that turns collected data into valuable information and requires significant computing power and storage capacity. As a consequence, data must be transported to the available computing power and storage capabilities, which could be universities, offices or data centres, for instance, or more generally, the "Cloud". Thus, being smart necessitates data networks which have the following features:

• High reliability, Availability and stability
• Low latency
• Capable of providing scalable, Symmetric Gbps-bandwidth

The network becomes the proverbial nervous system of a community. It would not be acceptable if a nervous system transmitted information about body functions with an incorporated time delay. Thus, the network must have the highest degree of fibre densification. There is no alternative.

In this context, one can argue that FTTH (aka Fibre-to-the-Home) deserves a new and more comprehensive title. Fibre-to-the-Hub is probably a more appropriate description. Fibre-to-the-Home carries the connotation of a primarily consumer-market oriented network. This would be too narrow and would jeopardise financial viability and investor interest. In contrast, Fibre-to-the-Hub stresses the multiservice aspect of the network: the Hub can be a (Wifi-) router in homes, a mobile base station, a Hotspot that connects sensors or beacons, an in-building DSLAM etc. etc. It is becoming clear that an FTTH network is much more than just a last mile access technology for internet entertainment services. It is rather a system that provides data connectivity with the right quality and speed.

This perspective has important ramifications for the business case. Network capacity can be monetised in several ways as various customer groups will utilise the network. These can be larger corporates with redundant lines, SMEs which have an interest in SLAs, mobile service providers, utilities, media companies, public administration agencies, housing associations, individual consumers etc. Regardless of whether the network provider operates the network on a wholesale-only basis or prefers an integrated approach: the value of network assets increases with the desire to make cities and regions smart.

Apart from the above mentioned solutions we also offer the below products for FTTx networks:

1. WDM Modules or Co-existence Elements
2. CWDM OADM Module
3. DWDM OADM Module
4. DWDM Mux Demux Module
5. Three window / Dual Window / Single Window FBT Coupler
6. Pre-terminated cable assemblies
7. SFP and Media Converters