Communication Markets Division

Automated Fibre Management

for cost control and increased uptime in data centres
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Speakers

Rosemary McGlashon – European Product Manager

rmcglashon1@mmm.com

Gady Rosenfeld – VP Marketing & Business Development

gadyr@fiberzone-networks.com

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3M for Data Centres

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3M’s Strategic Alliance with FiberZone

3M has entered into a strategic business alliance with
FiberZone to help bring their Automated Fibre
Management (AFM) system to the data centre markets, as
an authorized sales representative

The FiberZone Networks AFM is a perfect complement to

3M growing portfolio of solutions for data centres

3M’s global reach, combined with FiberZone Networks’

industry-first fibre management system will help data
centre operators worldwide facilitate the transition to cloud
data management while delivering operational efficiencies
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The Operation of Fibre in Data Centres Today

Fibre is Still Managed Like Copper was 100 yrs Ago

Today’s Environment

Prone to Human Error (50% of outages)

Lower Reliability

Security Risk

Higher Cost of Operation

Difficult to Manage

Inability to easily Grow Services and Scale New Business
Opportunities

Downtimes and their Cost

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Downtimes in Data Centres – Occurrence and Cost

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Downtimes in Data Centres – Occurrence and Cost

On Average:
9 partial/device
outages per yr

The Cost of a Single Data

Centre Outage is
Thousands of $ per
Downtime Minute!

Not all Data Centres

7 are created Equal
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What is Automated Fibre Management (AFM)?

Combining the Best of Both Worlds

Remote Software Passive

Controlled Connectivity

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How Automated Fibre Management (AFM) Works?

Two High Precision, Software-controlled robotic arms move Fibre

Optic connectors along upper and lower planes

Once in position, the connectors are latched (locked) physically
together to form a perfectly aligned Passive connection

Please view our video on Robot

Matrix

Fibres
Chassis
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Why Automated Fibre Management (AFM)?

Combining the Best of Both Worlds

Remote Software Passive

Controlled Connectivity

Remote control when needed
Always-on connectivity. No added
point-of-failure

Automated recovery

Best & consistent optical

Scheduled changes
performance

Access from any browser client

In earthquakes & vibrations

Alarms, logs and reports

Wavelength/bitrate agnostic

Logical partitioning of ports

Low Cost

Remote testing w/ OTDR
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Why AFM for Colocations and Data Centres

Reduce Cost of Operation

Move/Add/Change for intra-cage connections no longer
require dispatch or dependency on “Smart Hands”

Downtimes shortened from hours to minutes

Cost of human errors

Improve Control and Time to Provision New Connections

Turn-up new connections in minutes

Schedule changes to automatically take place during
maintenance windows

Improved physical security

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Use cases for DCs

Floor Enterp1
IDF
Enterp2 Enterp3

Floor Carrier1 Carrier2

IDF
Carrier3

Managed Cage/Suite

Meet-Me-Room Automation Managed Cage
Cage ODF

Inter-floor Backbone Mgmt Floor
IDF Si

Automated Fibre Recovery Si CarrierB

Expedited Cross-Connect
Services MDF
Meet-Me-Room

Carrier-Exchange Service
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Sample ROI: Colocation Cage with AFM

Eliminating the cost of a single outage pays for
the capital investment

Number of Managed Duplex Ports per Quad 180

Reduce ongoing opex Number of Planned Fiber Connectivity Changes per Yr 20
Number of Unplanned Outages (Partial or Equipment) per Yr 9

Minimize cost of downtime Percentage of Outages that can be fixed with Fiber Management 10%
Change Turnaround time by dispatching in hrs 2.5

Reduce occurrence of outages Change Turnaround time with AFM in minutes 10
(remove hands in the plant) Average cost of change per change $1,000
Average cost of downtime per minute $1,000

Reduce cost of corrective action
AFM Savings per Yr
(no longer real-time) Cost of Planned Fiber Connectivity Changes per Yr $20,000
Cost of Unplanned Downtime per Yr $126,000

Automate record keeping Total Savings per Yr $146,000

Approximate ROI in months for purchase 8

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Case Study:
GlobeNet Automates Colocations with AFM

The Strategy

Fully automate fibre connectivity in cages and
eliminate the manual fibre patch panels & ODF at all
sites

Initial deployment at main colocation sites and
submarine cable landing stations in U.S., Central
and South America

The Result

Reduced cost of operation

Improved control and security

Improved SLA for new connections

Improved customer satisfaction

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Summary

Fibre connectivity is the last manually managed part in
Datacentres

AFM combines the reliability of passive connectivity with the
ability to control via software

It allows operators to

Minimize downtime

Reduce OPEX

Improve security

3M integrates FiberZone AFM in its innovative solution for
datacentre performance, reliability and security
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