Stake

Broadband

Cable operators, phone companies and other Wi-Fi providers are launched in a race for catching market shares and bundling new services. Future revenues will greatly depend on number of subscribers they can gather. They all need fast deployment rate and low entry cost

Powering

Strategy in broadband deployment will impact the power requirements. Installing power units in remote cabinets spread out all over the country raises new technical challenges. Environmental conditions and maintenance issues become of paramount importance. Equipments must be designed for outdoor conditions and to lower maintenance costs

Development

Each site differs from the others. Constrains vary with local technical data, regulation, climatic conditions and available resources. Everyone dreams to universal killer solution. Reality shows that we have to rely on a panel of technical solutions flexible enough to be selected at the latest moment in the deployment process. Equipments must be easy to install and to configure with total safety for working personnel

"What makes our product really unique is that it has been designed after careful listening to telecom operators and compilation of their recommendations. The result is not a product but a solution. A way of doing things supported by an equipment. We have identified four main objectives:

With serval thousands sites in operation worldwild BPS has set a new leadership at the leading edge of the technology.

1.Make the installation fast and easy because there is no time to waste and “Time to Market” is essential. 2.Lower the cost of ownership. Having hundredths or thousands outside plants spread all over the country can rise the costs exponentially if care is not taken to MTBF, efficiency, easy repair and maintenance free. This includes also special handling of faulty TP. 3.Monitor the installation and provide extended reporting of operations. Continuity of service is essential since the Telco is bounded with a Service Level Agreement. Better to anticipate any problem and in case of disruption being able to troubleshoot quickly and accurately. 4.Keep the system very safe because reluctances from unions will jeopardize the deployment and no telco can afford to make the headlines in the newspapers.

RFT-V is generally considered as unsafe compared to RFT-C. According to IEC 479, RFT-V is qualified as: “Usually no organic damage is expected. Increasing with current and time, reversible disturbances of formation and conduction of impulses in the heart may occur”.
RFT-C can be qualified as safe according to IEC 479: “Usually no harmful physiological effect”.
Furthermore limitation of leakage to the earth to 2mA in RFT-C “Usually (does not induce any) reaction. (Just) slight pricking pain when switching ON or OFF”.

Since RFT-V is not intrinsically safe additional safeguards have to be added and technicians have to be trained. This is common practice in countries where RFT-V is in use. Some national standards such as GR1089 CORE specify accessibility to circuits or wiring.
Consequently RFT-V circuits have to be separated from SELV circuits.

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