UTEL’s innovative technologies for fibre & copper systems at CommunicAsia2016

UTEL, a leading research and development company for telecommunications systems, showcased its latest technology at CommunicAsia 2016, Singapore, earlier this year. It exhibits the Robo-Cab--an innovative, fully managed automatic direction finder system, designed for the management of copper networks--and its innovative fibre-testing technology, Fast Light.

As a complete copper network management system, Robo-Cab fully automates the whole cabinet, including copper cross connect, VDSL splitter jumpering, copper line testing, VDSL DSLAM port testing, and cross connect testing.

“Robo-Cab takes speed and efficiency to the next level and has revolutionised the operation and management of FTTC,” said Frank Kaufhold, Managing Director of UTEL. “By automating the interconnect technology, Robo-Cab gives control back to operators by enabling them to deliver new services to customers on an almost on-demand basis.”

Robo-Cab allows for connection changes to be made and tested from remote locations, therefore significantly reducing OPEX. “By using Robo-Cab, costs, number of call-outs and the risk of human error are all drastically reduced,” Kaufhold added.

Also on display was UTEL’s unique Fast Light technology, which is used as the basis for a centralised G-PON fibre management system, and is the only existing technology in the world able to reliably detect ONT reflections through 128 split PONs, without expensive wavelength dependent reflectors.

In addition to Fast Light and Robo-Cab, delegates attending CommunicAsia also saw the latest Copper Test Access Solutions, which have already been implemented by a number of customers, including BT. Copper test heads, ETSI racks, Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) TASMs, Test Access Switches and Custom TASMs, were among these technologies on show at UTEL’s stand.

United Technologists Europe Limited (UTEL) is a founder-owned UK company, incorporated in 1993, by two R&D engineers, Frank Kaufhold and Paul Grafton.