Clearfield Delivers Home Deployment Kits to Streamline FTTH Connections as Fiber Services Flourish
April 07 2020 - 08:00AM
Business Wire
Home Deployment Kits provide easy-to-use
connectivity solutions that reduce installation time by nearly 30
minutes per connection
Clearfield, Inc. (NASDAQ:CLFD), the specialist in fiber
management for communication service providers, today announced the
introduction of Home Deployment Kits. Designed to streamline and
ease the task of FTTH deployment, Home Deployment Kits include
everything you need to connect a home to fiber -- all in one box.
Clearfield’s Home Deployment Kits can reduce install time by 30
minutes per install. For carriers looking to deploy a fiber network
to 1,000 homes over the next year, this equates to a time savings
of 500 hours with a lower-cost per install team. For those
consumers willing to take a do-it-yourself approach, the Home
Deployment Kit enables a contactless installation keeping residents
and fiber technicians at a safe distance.
Engineered to address one of the most common scenarios in FTTH
deployments, Clearfield’s new Home Deployment Kits complete the
fiber connection from outside the home to the point where the
customer equipment is located inside the home. Because homes vary
greatly in size, shape, and building material, technicians
previously needed different types of fasteners to attach fiber.
Clearfield simplifies this by packaging all the necessary materials
in one convenient kit.
“At Clearfield our priority is to accelerate cost-effective
fiber fed deployments. Our customers are eager for a product
package that includes all the necessary materials to easily install
fiber and feed it all the way to the customer equipment no matter
the varying scenario,” said Kevin Morgan, Chief Marketing Officer,
Clearfield. “With everything needed for a home installation all in
one box, not only are truck rolls reduced, but service providers
will have everything from fasteners to the correct length of patch
cord right at their fingertips. We anticipate service providers
will save time and money for any deployment model, suiting even the
most challenging home installations.”
Home Deployment Kits include four choices of an Outside Plant
(OSP) Test Access Point (TAP) as follows:
- NEW CraftSmart® TAP-Base – splice only, limited slack storage,
NEMA 4
- NEW CraftSmart® TAP-Flex – plug-and-play, 25’ incoming slack
storage, NEMA 3S
- YOURx™ TAP – plug-and-play, 50’ incoming/100’ outgoing slack
storage, NEMA 4
- FieldSmart® TAP – plug-and-play, 100’ incoming/200’ outgoing
slack storage, NEMA 4
In addition, every Home Deployment Kit includes a NEW
consumer-friendly CraftSmart Fiber Outlet for inside wiring, fiber
patch cords and FieldShield® drop fiber as needed. The components
of the Clearfield Home Deployment Kit can be used with any types
while being optimized for FieldShield FLEXDrop® pre-terminated
entrance fiber. Configured with a Clearfield pushable connector,
FieldShield simplifies entrance into the home. After installing the
entrance fiber, the CraftSmart Fiber Outlet terminates the fiber
inside the home.
Home Deployment Kits are available for shipment May 2020. More
information can be found on this introductory video, the associated
data sheets or at www.SeeClearfield.com.
About Clearfield, Inc.
Clearfield, Inc. (NASDAQ:CLFD) designs, manufactures and
distributes fiber optic management, protection and delivery
products for communications networks. Our “fiber to anywhere”
platform serves the unique requirements of leading incumbent local
exchange carriers (traditional carriers), competitive local
exchange carriers (alternative carriers), and MSO/cable TV
companies, while also catering to the broadband needs of the
utility/municipality, enterprise, data center and military markets.
Headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, Clearfield deploys more than a
million fiber ports each year. For more information, visit
www.SeeClearfield.com.
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