Self-tunable Transceivers: Maximum Ease of Operations, Flexibility and Lower Costs

HFR Networks has innovated by adding Smart Tunable Optics into their flexiHaul solutions, including 25G T-SFP28 duplex and 10G bidirectional products. Smart Tunable Optics are intelligent, plug-and-play, wavelength self-tuning transceivers that eliminate the need for time-consuming tasks, such as wavelength planning, manual fiber tracking, and wavelength programming.

Each Smart Tunable transceiver on a DWDM optical link can automatically self-tune to the correct wavelength within ~5 minutes determined only by its physical connection to the passive mux/demux infrastructure without intervention by the host system or a field technician.

Smart Tunable transceivers use integrated firmware to determine the proper wavelengths to connect each host port to its remote end of the link. This reduces provisioning time from hours to minutes and results in significant OPEX savings for service providers in DWDM metro and access applications, such as mobile fronthaul, remote PHY, and data center interconnections (DCI).

Smart Tunable Optics allow service providers to standardize RAN or access transport across a diverse ecosystem of suppliers which reduce costs while ensuring consistent performance across the network.

HFR Networks’ Smart Tunable solutions offer service providers significant operational benefits with the ability to work over a wide range of fiber channels using flexible self-tunable optics versus sourcing many different channels of fixed optics.

With built-in diagnostics to ensure carrier grade operations, Smart Tunable Optics offer a variety of other key features, including electrical loopback and effortless plug-and-play installation.

These solutions help service providers quickly and economically add capacity and new services to their networks, while also providing full visibility to important portions of the access or xHaul networks for efficient ongoing operations.