Onshore fibre optic telecoms networks are an essential tool for modern life. So, operators need to guarantee connectivity uptime 365 days a year.
Fotech’s global customers choose LiveDETECT®, our Distributed Fibre Optic Sensing technology, as the solution they trust to monitor their networks, detect issues within minutes, and alert to the location and nature of the disturbance.
You can then act before the problem becomes a business-critical issue.
LiveDETECT® also offers the opportunity to add value to onshore and subsea fibre optic cables. It turns your cable into a sensor that monitors co-located infrastructure, including pipelines, perimeters, borders and traffic and railway systems.
LiveDETECT II® is a modular system that is fast to install and integrates with your own security systems and maintenance infrastructure to protect against:
LiveDETECT® II is a fully configurable solution. As well as integrating with your own telecoms monitoring systems (such as CCTV or UAV integration), Fotech’s Distributed Fibre Optic Sensing (DFOS) telecoms cable monitoring technology consists of three powerful modules installed along the length of the fibre optic cable. As your network grows, more modules can be added. The result is a tailor-made solution that monitors every inch of your telecoms network, day and night, all year round. The three powerful modules are:
Combining a single or multiple Helios® interrogators and a Panoptes alarm server, co-located in a rack.
LiveDETECT II® is designed to expand along the length of your fibre optic cables, by networking multiple Helios® modules together.
The Panoptes Alarm Management Server facilitates remote monitoring of telecoms cables, operating a risk severity analysis so that you are alerted to not just the disturbance, but also the likely severity of the event.
Customers across the globe depend on Fotech LiveDETECT II® to safeguard the integrity, connectivity, and performance of their onshore telecoms cable networks. They know that LiveDETECT II® provides a value-adding solution to constantly monitor the entire length of the telecoms cable asset, intelligently, accurately, and in real time, so that you can: