Point-to-point FTTH supervision using geographic information system tool

The new Fibre to Home (FTTH) technology provides very high-speed network since the optical fiber (OF) is extended to the final user. However, with the rapid development and growing interest for deployment of FTTH networks, it is becoming increasingly vulnerable to various failures and anomalies. Therefore, the network supervision becomes extremely important to guarantee an appropriate level of network reliability performance. In this paper, a simple and effective new solution is proposed to localize fiber defects and anomalies based on optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR) with Geographic information systems (GIS).