The Market for Fiber Automation in Datacenters and NetworksThe telecommunications industry is undergoing tremendous change to meet the increasing complexity of today's electronic systems. The global demand for more bandwidth to support mobile applications such as smartphone usage for accessing data and video online is driving this change. As network capacity and customers' dependence on advanced service availability grow, ensuring high service availability in both developed and developing markets becomes critical. To take advantage of deployment flexibility and lower management costs, datacenter and network operators are aggressively deploying infrastructure to support new cloud services. Critical to the cost-effective and successful rollout of these services is Automation. The last manually-operated portion of these new infrastructures, are the Fiber network. Faults in the physical fiber infrastructure cause severe adverse impact on network operators. Network downtime damages customer satisfaction, results in significant disruption in network operations, and reduces profits through loss of revenue and payment of service level agreement (SLA) penalties. FiberZone's AFM automates fiber infrastructure by facilitating remote and automated end-to-end provisioning, troubleshooting, maintenance, and record keeping. FiberZone's AFM not only significantly reduces operational expenditures, it allows datacenter and network operators to offer new differentiated cloud services, while eliminating the cost of downtown associated with the manual operation of 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) fiber-switching technology. Leveraging LOC 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 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. |