Clearfield® FastPass™ Accelerates Fiber Broadband Operators Ability to Move from Homes Passed to Homes Connected
November 08 2022 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
With nearly a 40% speed of deployment advantage
as operators rapidly expand fiber broadband, Clearfield customers
demonstrate the ability to nearly double the rate of homes
connected
Clearfield, Inc. (NASDAQ:CLFD), the specialist in fiber
management for communication service providers, today shared
information learned during a recent customer deployment study to
measure the time savings achieved using FastPass™ as part of its
efforts to move from fiber homes passed to fiber homes connected.
Homes passed and homes connected are the first two steps critical
to help close the digital equity gap and achieve the ultimate goal
of homes served.
“In this once-in-a-generation opportunity to connect more
customers with fiber than ever before, the FastPass method is
proving to deliver unmatched time-to-market advantages for our
customers to connect homes faster,” said Kevin Morgan, chief
marketing officer at Clearfield. “Homes passed is just the first
step. Our innovative, labor lite product development at Clearfield
is just as focused on the metric of homes connected to enable our
customers to optimize their workflow, so that everyone, everywhere
has access to the broadband services needed to thrive and
grow.”
A total of 159 residential installations were included as part
of the study. The results were compared to a previous baseline
survey. Highlights of the findings include:
- Outside installation time was reduced to an average of 1 hour
and 5 minutes, a savings of 39 minutes or 38%
- Inside installation time was reduced to 35 minutes, a savings
of 19 minutes or 35%
- Cumulative time savings enabled this operator to add one and
sometimes two additional installation appointments per day for each
technician
Clearfield products used in this study included Clearfield’s
Small Count Delivery (SCD) Test Access Point (TAP) Wall Box with
FLEXdrop® Fiber Deploy Reel and Pushable Connectors. Clearfield
delivered pre-connectorized cable products for both the drop cable
and the house cable. The house cable was supplied on Clearfield’s
FieldShield® FLEXdrop Fiber Deploy Reel, a 4-1/2” reel that can
contain up to 100-feet of FLEXdrop optical cable. The Deploy Reel
minimizes pre-engineering because there is no need to specify the
exact length of cable needed and the reel allows FLEXdrop to be
pulled directly to the access point. Once the pushable connector
has reached its destination, the connector assembly is completed
with the supplied connector housings and the connector is mated to
the adapter.
“The ability to connect more homes, with fewer field resources,
is critical to our operations for two key reasons – it allows us to
get more customers onto the fiber network and to do so more
efficiently with our available team,” said Jeremy Billings, Central
Construction Planning and Engineering Manager for Midco
Communications. “Fiber broadband delivers too many advantages and
any technology or partner that allows us to reach our goals faster,
at a lower cost, as Clearfield has done, provides a level of value
that cannot be underestimated.”
More information on Clearfield’s FastPass™ can be found in this
whitepaper and video, available at
https://www.seeclearfield.com/fastpass.html
About Clearfield, Inc.
Clearfield, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLFD) designs, manufactures, and
distributes fiber optic management, protection, and delivery
products for communications networks. Our “fiber to anywhere”
platform serves the unique requirements of leading incumbent local
exchange carriers (traditional carriers), competitive local
exchange carriers (alternative carriers), and MSO/cable TV
companies, while also catering to the broadband needs of the
utility/municipality, enterprise, data center and military markets.
Headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, Clearfield deploys more than a
million fiber ports each year. For more information, visit
www.SeeClearfield.com.
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