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UK NATIONAL GRID SELECTS EXFO FOR INNOVATIVE FIBRE HEALTH MONITORING PILOT SCHEME
National Grid has deployed an overhead fibre optic operational telecommunications network across its electricity transmission infrastructure that carries critical information essential for secure and efficient utility operations. EXFO's technology will help assess the operational condition of the fibre network, while predicting its remaining technical lifespan and identifying potential points of weakness or failure.
For the first time in such an application, EXFO will also collect data from Intellisense Systems micro weather station (MWS®) Internet of Things (IoT) devices being deployed to measure the specific environmental impact of wind, humidity and meteorological events. EXFO's Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based analytics solution will amalgamate and correlate data from both the fibre optic network and weather system inputs, and dynamically predict, detect, and prevent outages and impairments in the network that might otherwise go unnoticed.
National Grid anticipates that EXFO's proactive monitoring and fault detection can deliver a net benefit of as much as £2.9m derived from failure avoidance and extending the lifespan of the existing network.
EXFO will measure, analyse, and report results from an 80 km span of the National Grid network -- in one of the most challenging areas of the UK for weather issues – over a 12-month period. Deployment of test equipment and Intellisense devices got underway in October 2022 .
"EXFO is pleased to support a national-level provider like the National Grid. Our remote, proactive fibre testing and monitoring solution provides complete visibility across the fibre network, with capabilities to predict and detect potential outages in real time. Coupled with weather sensing equipment, we can help ensure network reliability so the lights stay on for everyone," said Wim te Niet, Vice President, EMEA, EXFO.
"Operational telecommunications networks are an important part of our critical national infrastructure and play a key role in enabling our transition to a net zero economy by 2050. Large parts of our fibre network are reaching an age where failures may become more frequent and more difficult to address. We are therefore exploring new ways to monitor and model fibre health and its evolution over time to enable optimised planning of refurbishment and replacement interventions," said Tom Charton , Senior Innovation Engineer at the National Grid.
EXFO develops smarter test, monitoring and analytics solutions for the global communications industry. We are trusted advisers to fixed and mobile network operators, hyper-scalers and leaders in the manufacturing, development and research sector. They count on us to deliver superior visibility and insights into network performance, service reliability and user experience. Building on over 35 years of innovation, EXFO's unique blend of equipment, software and services enable faster, more confident transformations related to 5G, cloud-native and fibre optic networks.
More about EXFO's Adaptive Service Assurance solutions is available here.
Contact: Priscillia Chun , CCgroup PR, +44 734 2034 262, EXFO@ccgrouppr.com
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