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FEATURE:
CommScope’s High-Speed Migration Platform
The challenge
You are under increasing pressure to
support faster data speeds, lower latency
requirements and future changes that
are hard to predict. New optics, fiber and
standards provide promising individual
tools, but what is your strategy? How do
you ensure your infrastructure remains?
Agile
Flexible
High density
Easy to manage
Scalable
The strategy
CommScope’s high-speed migration
platform is a unified, end-to-end channel
approach to your infrastructure’s
evolution. It consists of modular fiber and
connectivity building blocks, infrastructure
intelligence and network planning tools.
Working together, they guarantee your
infrastructure continues to adapt, evolve
and scale—efficiently and manageably.
Platform components
Patch panels: High-density (HD) and
Ultra-high density (UD) panels provide
up to 72 duplex LC or 48 MPO ports per
RU— singlemode or multimode—to enable
today’s leaf-and-spine networks. The unique
split-tray design offers open access to all
fibers and secures them to protect active
links during modifications. A full line of
fiber modules and adapter packs supports
multiple shelf platforms for more agility.
Fiber cabling: A complete array of
fiber cables, including OM5 wideband
multimode, enables shortwave division
multiplexing, so you can use low-power,
low-cost VCSEL technology to quadruple
duplex fiber capacity. Ultra-low loss,
pre-terminated components enable
longer link spans that can support more
attenuation-sensitive applications. For new
short-reach singlemode optics, G.657.A2
SM maximizes performance and provides
lowest bend losses.
Connector modules: With 24-fiber MPO,
CommScope ensures your lowest “first
cost” duplex deployment with only one
connection. 12-fiber MPOs support QSFP
technology and seamless expansion of
legacy 12-fiber infrastructure. In addition,
8-fiber MPOs are available to provide
flexible, scalable breakouts for customers
utilizing parallel optic configurations.
Intelligence: To manage the growing
infrastructure complexity, the core of the
high-speed migration platform supports
Automated Infrastructure Management.
CommScope’s imVision ® , enables you to
monitor and manage your infrastructure
at port level and in real-time. imVision
automates the process of planning,
implementing and documenting moves/add/
changes, accelerates mean-time-to-repair
and alerts you to unplanned or unauthorized
changes in your physical layer.
Network planning tools: CommScope’s
Application Performance Specification
and Link Loss Calculator make it easy
to determine link support for new
applications. The Application Performance
Specification calculates the maximum
supportable distance for any link design
while the Link Loss Calculator provides
the exact target performance for the
link. For all compliant links—based on
targeted versus measured performance—
CommScope guarantees support for
applications running within the maximum
reach.¹ For more information on
CommScope’s Application Performance
Specification and Link Loss Calculator, visit
commscope.com.
CommScope: your long-term
migration partner
To keep up with the accelerating changes in
your data center, your infrastructure must
be agile, and fiber dense and support your
evolving network strategies. CommScope’s
high-speed migration platform delivers.
More than innovative infrastructure
solutions, it’s a long-term strategy that can
take you from where you are today to
where you need to go tomorrow.
¹ See CommScope Network Infrastructure System 25-year Extended Warranty and Application Assurance for important details and conditions.
commscope.com
Visit our website or contact your local CommScope representative for more information.
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