Solutions
As specialists in optical, packet and radio access transport technology, our technological leadership ensures that solutions are optimized to your specific needs. We have been delivering solutions to customers globally for over 20 years.
Our experience is based on working with some of the world’s largest carriers to help solve key networking challenges that open, multivendor, next generation networks face. Our open, standards-based architecture provides interoperability and seamlessly integration across a broad vendor ecosystem.
Our “pay-as-you-grow” solutions deliver high performance with unsurpassed scalability while reducing operational costs (fiber, power & space), simplifying network operations, and accelerating deployments.
• Proven reliability across a challenging set of access network use cases
• Maximizes fiber efficiency & capacity while supporting a mix of services
• Proven interoperability across leading vendors
• Centralize components and lower OPEX with rich OA&M features
• Expand mobile services quickly, especially when fiber is constrained
HFR Networks offers a complete portfolio of WDM interface options and topologies for deploying scalable, cost-effective and highly reliable services throughout the access network domain. Our WDM solutions support CPRI/cCPRI transport with low latency, low jitter and robust flexibility across both active and passive WDM and DWDM configurations. HFR Networks’ solutions have been field proven at large-scale within mobile use cases for leading Tier 1 customers such as SKT and Verizon. The HSN8000 solution enables service providers to expand mobile services quickly, especially when fiber is constrained and/or there is an urgent business imperative to turn up new services fast.
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HSN8000 Series
Data Sheet
• Solution to normalize operations across leading 3rd party RAN suppliers
• Encapsulated CPRI traffic with Radio-over-Ethernet (RoE)
• Significant performance and cost benefits
• RAN with Ethernet services on common infrastructure
Packet M6424 Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) Switch
HFR Networks delivered the industry’s first RAN packet transport solution with our M-Series products. We are working with Tier-1 service providers in the United States to reduce deployment and operational costs while facilitating a fast and smooth evolution to 5G wireless technologies. The provided solutions mark an important industry milestone with standards-based packet fronthaul to normalize operations across radio solutions from leading 3rd party suppliers. The M6424 solution is purpose built to enable an advanced mobile network with nanosecond timing – connecting cellular radios using Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) and eCPRI packet solutions supporting both traditional and cloud-based NFV mobile architectures. CPRI traffic is encapsulated using IEEE Radio-over-Ethernet (RoE) standards to realize significant performance and cost benefits. The M6424 offers investment protection across traditional CPRI radios and enhanced or eCPRI ones, including ORAN solutions. Operators are also migrating to a virtual RAN (vRAN) or cloud architecture which requires high performance xHaul with the economics of an M6424 TSN solution. The M6424 is an ORAN compliant solution with proven interoperability across a diverse set of RAN vendors to ensure operators can implement today while supporting a graceful network evolution over time.
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Packet M6424 TSN Switch
Data Sheet
xWave 400G for 5G Transport: Optimize Fiber Assets to Deliver Operational Flexibility With “Pay-as-You-Grow” Economics
HFR Networks engineered xWave to empower operators with valuable performance advantages, and cost control for capacity deployments and upgrades scaled over time. Powered by the M6424 platform, xWave solutions enable multichannel WDM capabilities over existing fiber. xWave delivers a high performance, cost-effective alternative to laying additional fiber infrastructure combined with the flexibility to scale capacity in increments of 100G as needed.
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xWave 400G
Data Sheet
5G: Stricter Timing and Synchronization
With the introduction of 5G, timing distribution becomes more complex and critical to ensure efficient and continuous network operations.
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• Significant benefits vs. sourcing many different channels of fixed optics
• Built in diagnostics to simply system bring up and operations
• Quickly add capacity to 4G in parallel with deploying new 5G services
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Smart Tunable Optics
Data Sheet
HFR Networks Announces Industry’s First 25G Smart Tunable Optics for 5G Transport
These self-tuning optical transceivers enable 5G applications, automate fast service turn-up, and include full operational visibility… Read the Press Release here
How are Smart Tunable Optics different from fixed wavelength and tunable wavelength optics?
Read our Smart Tunable Optics Overview for a complete comparison.
• Experience with large scale deployments globally
• Close working relationships across leading OEMs
• Ability to design and integrate components required
• Rich portfolio; muxes, filters, enclosures…
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flexiTester
Data Sheet
Passive Optical Products
HFR Networks can bring in additional components and make the required modifications to deliver the ideal design for our customers. HFR Networks, in combination with our parent company and a rich set of ecosystem partners, has access to many leading edge technologies. With our global deployment experience, we are skilled at integrating other best of breed components to provide high performance solutions with a rapid time to market, while always achieving superior economics to ensure the customer’s business case is met. We have a broad portfolio of components and can quickly deliver the modifications needed to meet a customer’s specific requirements.
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Passive Optical Products
Data Sheet
• Highly scalable, carrier-class EMS pre-integrated with HFR Networks’ solutions
• Offers full visibility and operational control for remotely deployed equipment
• Operates stand alone or integrated with other management platforms
• Seamless integration with NETCONF/YANG models
HFR Networks flexiHaul HiEMS Element Management System offers full visibility and operational control into remotely deployed transport and Ethernet access equipment. Easy to install and operate, HFR Networks’ HiEMS greatly simplifies network operations. Pre-integrated with HFR Networks’ solutions, this highly scalable, carrier-class software solution runs on commercial off-the-shelf hardware or in a cloud instance. This ensures operators can quickly install new services while also maintaining higher performance in order to exceed their customers’ service level agreements (SLAs). Highly intuitive, the flexiHaul HiEMS helps optimize operations across a range of xHaul and Ethernet access service use cases, including mobile fronthaul/backhaul applications and converged Carrier Ethernet offerings.
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Element Management System
Data Sheet
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Which OpenRAN is Best for You?
This Senza Fili technical brief looks at OpenRAN TCO for three scenarios that use different transport costs. HFR Networks was a contributor to the content of this brief. Read the Technical Brief…
