Don’t count the space, make it count!
It was a lazy Sunday morning when Antonio met his colleague Davide browsing the aisles of a very famous Swedish furniture shop. It was the first time they met face to face in a couple of months – the “new normal” of working from home and visiting the office only occasionally meant that they seldom bumped into each other anymore, so they gladly stopped for a quick chat. Given the recent rise in the electric bills, Antonio was on a hunt for solutions to save energy, while Davide was looking for ideas on how to maximize the use of space in the small new house he had bought. They decided to join forces in their quest for innovative solutions, making small talk as they went.
Strategic Product Manager, BNEW PAN TP Optical Transport
System manager and Expert in Photonics, DNEW PDU TP OS&FH
Strategic Product Manager, BNEW PAN TP Optical Transport
System manager and Expert in Photonics, DNEW PDU TP OS&FH
Strategic Product Manager, BNEW PAN TP Optical Transport
System manager and Expert in Photonics, DNEW PDU TP OS&FH
The showroom was full of clever designs that would optimize every inch of space. Davide spotted modular furniture that could transform his new home, providing hidden storage compartments and maximizing the use of limited areas by using loft beds with built-in storage and folding tables with compact chairs for the dining area. Antonio browsed a broad range of options to reduce the power consumption in his home, from smart lighting solutions to create a cozy ambience to energy-efficient appliances and smart home devices that would enable him to control lighting and temperature with a minimum of effort.
As they browsed, Antonio and Davide realized that the store was literally teeming with solutions to save valuable floor space and to minimize energy waste. At first glance they hadn’t noticed it - when you’re not looking for something specific, a table is a table and a lamp is a lamp - but when looking more closely, these items on the shelves and in the showroom revealed themselves to offer so much more.
But engineers will be engineers, and it wasn’t long before Antonio made the connection to how the need for effective utilization of space and energy is growing well beyond households and into a variety of industrial activities – such as the mobile networks they were using check prices and send pictures to their partners as they sought to find the optimal solutions for their needs.
While deploying radio networks following the Centralized RAN paradigm, telecom operators have similar needs when it comes to space and energy efficiency, and they are also concerned about the footprint for their network hubs.
For customers who need a handle a single big C-RAN, the Fronthaul 6681 is the perfect solution. In just one rack unit, this passive unit serves efficiently the Baseband with its build in mux demux functionality, granting up to 24 services (from a pole or an antenna) to be connected to the Baseband hotel. Thanks to its design with pluggable expansion cassette, it can also integrate an optical line protection unit able to protect the connectivity even when one of the two DWDM lines gets faulty.
Fronthaul 6681
For customers who need a handle a multiple small C-RAN (up to 8), the Fronthaul 6683 hits the target, and again it does it in just one rack unit. This passive filter box offers leading modularity and great scalability, allowing for the connection of multiple remote sites (antenna or poles) and serving up to 72 radio services. It can scale towards supporting many fibers, either going to different sites or in parallel, to increase point-to-point capacity towards a single site while saving precious space thanks to the architecture based on four independent pluggable cassettes that can be added at any time, without restrictions.
Fronthaul 6683
Whether you’re trying to effectively and efficiently furnish a small house, or to squeeze a CRAN hub into a small central office, even a small space can be rendered both functional and environmentally friendly if you look closely enough at the available solutions and make the right choices!