OTDR technology, or Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry, allows for the precise characterization of optical fibers by sending short pulses of light down the fiber and measuring the reflected signals that return. This enables technicians to detect faults, splices, bends, and measure the overall loss in the fiber, making it an essential tool for the installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of fiber optic networks.
Although OTDR technology is great, most of the time the analysis of these traces is still manual work for an engineer.
This is why Mampaey Engineering has developed Tracy. A SaaS product that automatically analyses thousends and even millions of OTDR traces to cover an entire fiber network.
Master your fibre network and keep an eye on the quality of your dark assets
Tracy is a know-it-all:
- Tracy gathers OTDR measurements of your fibres, giving you direct access to your inventory.
- She makes it easy to update those measurements and keep a history of that data.
- She also automates part of the validation of the new installed fibre by linking the design and the as-built measurements, enabling a quick inspection of the installation.
- She provides the data for further reporting on the quality of the installations and enables comparisons to the original measurements.
- She can show the trace of the fibre on a GIS system
Tracy is flexible:
- She can gather data from hand held measurements
- She can interact with automated systems to get the information from there
Tracy is everywhere:
- She can be on your premisses
- She can be in the cloud
Tracy is easy:
- She has an attractive and user-friendly web user interface.
- She shows you the history for the fibre you are inspecting and checks it to the specification.