Business Summary
The management and maintenance of the growing fiber infrastructure has become one of the most critical and costly elements of the telecommunications business. In response to competitive pressure to fulfill customer demands while minimizing costs, network operators are deploying a new generation of flexible and efficient equipment. However, carriers are still installing manual, inflexible fiber distribution frames and patch panels in the middle of the next-generation networks being deployed today. Because fiber network operating costs directly impact the bottom line, carriers are seeking solutions to automate one of the last bastions of manual operation – the fiber infrastructure itself.
FiberZone AFM brings next-generation flexibility, reliability, and automation to the fiber infrastructure. By automating end-to-end provisioning, maintenance, inventory documentation, and troubleshooting, FiberZone AFM significantly reduces operating costs, minimizes network faults and human error, and improves overall quality of service. In short, AFM transforms the physical fiber infrastructure into a managed layer.
AFM Applications
FiberZone's AFM provides highly scalable, remotely managed, automated solutions throughout the fiber infrastructure:
Innovative, Purpose-Built Technology
FiberZone AFM was developed from the ground up for fiber management and is optimized for connectivity applications. At the heart of FiberZone's solutions lies its patented Latched Optical Coupling (LOC)TM fiber-switching technology. Leveraging LOCTM high precision coupling, active-passive structure, and latching mechanism, FiberZone AFM delivers superior optical performance, scalability, high reliability and repeatability, and connection reliability.
FiberZone's LOC technology fulfills these requirements and offers unmatched price-to-performance without utilizing any exotic materials. All components have been deployed for years in high-volume applications and are easily manufactured.
Company Background
FiberZone is led by a team of executives with wide-ranging experience in building global communications product companies. The Company’s highly-specialized engineering team has multidisciplinary expertise in developing systems that integrate electro-optics, lasers, material sciences and micro-mechanics. FiberZone was founded by Yossi Arol and Zohar Avrahami.
FiberZone is a privately-held Delaware C-Corporation with offices in the United States and Israel. The Company is backed by international, communications-industry focused venture capital firms Novak Biddle Venture Partners, Portview Communications Partners and StageOne Ventures.
The company has attracted a team of industry luminaries from leading global communications companies to its advisory board.
Building on its breakthrough technology and products, FiberZone is poised to become the market leader in the growing fiber management marketplace.
