When fiber goes dark, business stops. High availability (HA) fiber solutions ensure a single cut or device failure doesn’t take down your operations. The approach blends smart physical design with fast network convergence, monitored power, and clean documentation.
We engineer separate conduits and routes that don’t share the same risks—rail crossings, bridges, or excavation zones. Entry points terminate in different rooms or opposite sides of a building to avoid common-mode failure.
Rings and meshes provide alternate paths. Layer-3 designs with fast reroute minimize impact; SD-WAN can add carrier diversity for Internet-bound traffic. Inside buildings, dual-homed IDFs with redundant uplinks maintain local service during partial failures.
HA requires more than paths. Dual UPS feeds, generator integration, and temperature/humidity monitoring protect optics and active gear. Smart PDU telemetry alerts teams before conditions cause failure.
Commissioning includes OTDR baselines, loss budgets, and failover drills. Ongoing monitoring watches light levels and error rates; as-built documents and labels help field teams recover quickly when incidents happen.
If connectivity is mission-critical, your fiber must be built for failure—and recovery. SpecOp Secure delivers HA fiber from design to validation, with the monitoring to keep it that way. Want an HA readiness assessment? We’ll identify single points of failure and fix them.