South Central Rural Telecommunications Cooperative uses Adtran’s ALM to rapidly detect fiber faults
March 07 2024 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
News summary:
- Kentucky service provider needed a proactive fiber monitoring
solution to boost availability and enhance network operations
- Adtran’s ALM continuously and non-intrusively monitors SCRTC’s
network, enabling fast fault resolution
- Real-time assurance platform locates fiber issues with pinpoint
accuracy, shortening repair cycles and reducing operational
costs
Adtran today announced that South Central Rural
Telecommunications Cooperative (SCRTC) is using its ALM in-service
fiber monitoring solution to continuously probe its fiber network
for faults and degradations. The comprehensive assurance platform
empowers SCRTC to locate and resolve issues before they impact
services for its customers across South Central Kentucky. With no
need to engage in time-consuming manual fault isolation, SCRTC can
leverage its maintenance resources more effectively to improve
service delivery for its subscribers. To enhance scalability, SCRTC
has implemented Adtran’s ALM 96-port expansion unit at three of its
hub sites. This enables efficient monitoring of up to 110 fiber
links from a single hub location, significantly enhancing SCRTC’s
capability to proactively detect and address faults.
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SCRTC is using Adtran’s fiber monitoring
solution to reduce network downtime and cut operational costs.
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“The moment we plugged ALM into our infrastructure, it notified
us of an issue affecting one of our protected routes. We’d been
told to expect a quick return on our investment, but to get an
immediate demonstration of what it could do for us was a surprise,”
said Lonnie Meredith, network manager at SCRTC. “The ALM’s ability
to detect, identify and locate fiber faults in real time has had a
profound impact on our operations, minimizing network downtime and
cutting operational costs. It only becomes clear just how essential
the Adtran ALM is once it’s operational in your network. For our
subscribers, it means receiving high-speed broadband with
unbeatable reliability. And for us, it translates into daily
operations that are more efficient and more cost-effective. It’s a
tool you can’t afford to be without.”
SCRTC is using the 16-port variant of Adtran’s ALM to
continuously monitor its core fiber network and high-traffic routes
alongside the 96-port extender at three hub sites. A key component
of SCRTC’s network management system is Adtran’s GIS-based tracking
solution, Ensemble Fiber Director. This works with ALM to precisely
track the location of issues and ensure optimized oversight of
SCRTC’s full optical infrastructure. The system acts like a radar
that continuously scans fiber optic cables to pinpoint the location
of issues such as attenuation, water damage and breaks. By
identifying problems early and enabling maintenance teams to
immediately track them down, ALM also helps reduce SCRTC’s
operational and capital expenditures. What’s more, its fanless
operation and low power consumption further contribute to network
efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
“When a service outage occurs, subscribers expect rapid
resolution. That’s because broadband has become such an essential
utility. Businesses, people working from home and families who
regularly access entertainment streaming demand consistent,
always-on connectivity. That’s why service providers like SCRTC are
seeking solutions that take network resiliency to the next level,”
commented John Scherzinger, GM of Americas sales at Adtran. “It’s
often not until our customers experience the benefits of ALM’s
proactive monitoring firsthand that they fully appreciate its
critical role in operations. The SCRTC team is now well aware of
the advantages it brings in minimizing efforts, bolstering network
resilience and ensuring customer satisfaction.”
About Adtran ADTRAN Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN and FSE:
QH9) is the parent company of Adtran, Inc., a leading global
provider of open, disaggregated networking and communications
solutions that enable voice, data, video and internet
communications across any network infrastructure. From the cloud
edge to the subscriber edge, Adtran empowers communications service
providers around the world to manage and scale services that
connect people, places and things. Adtran solutions are used by
service providers, private enterprises, government organizations
and millions of individual users worldwide. ADTRAN Holdings, Inc.
is also the largest shareholder of Adtran Networks SE, formerly
ADVA Optical Networking SE. Find more at Adtran, LinkedIn and
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