Lab & Test
Automation
Fiber Mountain’s Glass Core solutions allow unprecedented visibility and agility within the data center. Real-time, accurate documentation becomes an automated process, improving day-to-day management of data center operations and speeding up the resolution of unplanned downtime, security threats and conformance requests.
Lab & Test Automation
Fiber Mountain’s Glass Core solutions allow unprecedented visibility and agility within the data center. Real-time, accurate documentation becomes an automated process, improving day-to-day management of data center operations and speeding up the resolution of unplanned downtime, security threats and conformance requests.
Enterprise labs use expensive test equipment (TE) to perform various tests before implementing changes in their production networks. The high cost of this equipment necessitates optimizing the use of each unit, rather than simply purchasing new TE to fill new needs.
Several complications commonly arise out of this situation:
Expensive equipment is exposed in a rack for technicians to patch in/out of, risking error or damage that can set schedules back by days or weeks if equipment is brought down.
Technicians must manually patch their Device Under Test (DUT) to the equipment they want to use, and manually re-patch at the TE side to change the DUT, which runs the risk of damage to the TE.
The TE is a limited resource, requiring all teams involved in testing to book and schedule both test time and the time required to manually bring down the original connection and configure a new connection to their DUT.
Expensive equipment is exposed in a rack for technicians to patch in/out of, risking error or damage that can set schedules back by days or weeks if equipment is brought down.
Technicians must manually patch their Device Under Test (DUT) to the equipment they want to use, and manually re-patch at the TE side to change the DUT, which runs the risk of damage to the TE.
The TE is a limited resource, requiring all teams involved in testing to book and schedule both test time and the time required to manually bring down the original connection and configure a new connection to their DUT.
The Glass Core
Fiber Mountain’s Glass Core™ solution provides labs with unprecedented control and automation of their test configurations by introducing software control of the physical connections to their TE. Imagine the versatility of a lab that does not require scheduling a technician every time a connection change is necessary.
To tackle these problems, Fiber Port Aggregators (FPAs) can be utilized to aggregate all connections to TEs and DUTs. Connections can then be made from the FPAs to an Optical Path Exchange (OPX), which provides software-controlled cross connections in one-to-one or one-to-many configurations.
The Glass Core
Fiber Mountain’s Glass Core solution provides labs with unprecedented control and automation of their test configurations by introducing software control of the physical connections to their TE. Imagine the versatility of a lab that does not require scheduling a technician every time a connection change is necessary.
To tackle these problems, Fiber Port Aggregators (FPAs) can be utilized to aggregate all connections to TEs and DUTs. Connections can then be made from the FPAs to an Optical Path Exchange (OPX), which provides software-controlled cross connections in one-to-one or one-to-many configurations.
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Software Managed with
AllPath® Director
When deployed with the Fiber Mountain AllPath Director (APD) orchestration software, your whole data center can be discovered and managed by software. The software provides network-wide visibility and automatic documentation of your physical layer.
Fiber Mountain’s
Product Catalog
From software to hardware that can transform your physical layer, we have it all! Look through our product catalog to find what suits you best.
Sensus Patch Panel
Passive patch panel with active intelligence. Imagine if your patch panels can detect cable presence. How would that change your network?
Optical Path Exchange
An optical MUX except its software-controlled, low latency, protocol agnostic and scalable. What would you do with this ability?
Fiber Mountain’s
Product Catalog
From software to hardware that can transform your physical layer, we have it all! Look through our product catalog to find what suits you best.
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