Test Labs and Production Floors - Test Efficiency through Lab Automation

Managing fiber connectivity in network regression test and interoperability labs and on production floors is becoming increasingly more complicated. It can take several days to change configurations, and skilled technicians spend most of their time running fiber cables and maintaining them due to wear and tear. Under the time constraint of a product release deadline, the only possible alternative is to spend more human/capital resources or reduce the test coverage, resulting in a risk of negatively impacting the product quality.

The use of scalable and stable fiber optic cross-connection systems solves this challenging dilemma. Now it is possible for technicians to spend more time testing than setting up tests.

With support from our partners, the application can be even more compelling with automated scripts and test processes that allow engineers to work remotely via software control. The software-controlled test-bed can run regression tests overnight while manually testing new features during the day. Fundamentally, the use of CALIENT’s FiberConnect decouples four tightly related parameters in regression testing:

• Time
• Quality
• Human resources
• Capital resources

All lead to real economic value in laboratory or production-test automation.