The Sky Is the Limit With New StreetSmart Aerial Fiber Distribution Hub From Clearfield
May 28 2020 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Designed to streamline aerial FTTx deployments
in both rural and urban neighborhoods, reducing overall
installation time from days to minutes
Clearfield, Inc. (NASDAQ:CLFD), the specialist in fiber
management for communication service providers, today introduced
the Aerial Fiber Distribution Hub (FDH) to its StreetSmart
portfolio. Purpose built for strand mount applications in all
Outside Plant (OSP) environments, the StreetSmart Aerial FDH can be
placed directly on a strand in the same space as other aerial
enclosures, eliminating the bulk of the engineering, permitting,
construction and material time and costs associated with ground or
pole mounted FDH options.
“Service providers are rapidly increasing their investment in
fiber infrastructure and FDH’s play an integral role in delivering
broadband services to consumers,” said Kevin Morgan, Chief
Marketing Officer, Clearfield. “At Clearfield, we are continuously
working to remove obstacles for fiber deployments and provide cost
saving tools. This solution showcases our commitment to engineer
solutions that meet the needs of service providers to deliver
unmatched services to their subscribers.”
To answer the growing demand for broadband services, network
designers and operators are continuously evaluating more cost
effective, practical, and less disruptive deployment techniques as
they actively plan for new fiber rollouts. Aerial fiber deployments
pose an attractive advantage as it eliminates the need for network
planners and engineers to design and build the network around
available ground or pole mounted PON cabinet locations. With
Clearfield’s Aerial FDH, network designers and engineers can build
efficient and cost-effective networks more quickly, delivering
faster time-to-market and time-to-revenue potential for fiber
services.
“More than ever, broadband connectivity is playing a vital role
in stimulating economies and enabling communities to remain
connected regardless of location,” said Patrick Pierce, Senior
Network Engineer, Mid-State Consultants. “Clearfield clearly
understands the challenges we face in advancing our fiber network
goals. Having a cost-effective, craft friendly aerial deployment
option will enable us to move more quickly through the network
planning and deployment stages, to service activation.”
The craft friendly Aerial FDH includes four individual hinged
covers that allow fiber technicians to easily access and manage up
to 288 fiber ports. The feeder cables are pre-terminated and housed
separately and securely away from the ports located in the front of
the enclosure, providing an ideal level of security and separation.
The Aerial FDH is a sealed, free-breathing enclosure, compact in
design and able to withstand the harshest OSP environments. It is
Telcordia GR-3125, GR-326, GR-20 and GR-409 compliant and able to
hold up to nine ruggedized splitter modules, allowing the service
provider to add splitters as needed and to grow-as-they-go,
minimizing investment in capital equipment related to the turn-up
of revenue-generating circuits.
Clearfield’s StreetSmart Aerial Fiber Distribution Hub is now
available for shipment. More information can be found on this
introductory video, white paper, the associated data sheet 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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