Solution brief
The DSX solution
Designed with value in mind
CommScope’s DSX products are designed with features that will improve your company’s profitability over
alternative DDF technologies. When comparing the DSX and DDF solutions, it is important to assess the
total costs of the equipment over the life of the product. In the graph below, the initial purchase price of
the DDF solution is significantly less than DSX. However, over the life of the product, the DSX is the lower
cost solution. To accurately assess the total costs of owning equipment, the following must be evaluated:
initial capital investment, operation and maintenance costs, and customer revenue lost during maintenance
activities. This case study shows how the DSX improved a carrier’s operation and helped them become
more competitive and more profitable.
DDF Soluon
Your decision is about much more than
buying equipment. It’s about improving your
company’s profitability.
TOTAL COST
This template is the basis of the Total Cost
Model and outlines the areas that are used
to evaluate the DSX against alternative DDF
technologies.
DSX
Soluon
PRODUCT LIF
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Designed with value in mind
Telecommunications service providers face a fiercely competitive
market. Issues and questions surface regarding expansion, network
flexibility, new service deployment, improved operations and
cost reductions. This competitive market places heavy demands
upon service providers. The key to success is a seamless network
migration that provides customers with transparent service
evolution. That begins with CommScope’s Digital Signal CrossConnect (DSX) Solutions.
Let's examine one example of how DSX can aid network evolution
and help service providers remain competitive. A service provider is
planning several new central offices and wants to increase network
flexibility, improve operations, and reduce costs to meet the
demands of the customer. They have recently issued an RFQ/RFP
for various equipment, including a DDF, for these new offices.
The network services approximately 3,000,000 subscribers. Key
subscribers include large financial institutions that will not tolerate
service outages, day or night. The current DDF consists of a crossconnect solution using soldering to wire-wrap terminal blocks.
The existing network
Limitations with DDF
This solution has a number of limitations:
• No simple means of accessing the circuit for testing or
monitoring purposes. Instead, the wires must be disconnected
from the terminal blocks interrupting the service in order to
conduct testing.
• No patching capabilities for temporary rerouting of the circuit.
Instead circuits must be re-jumpered to an alternate path
(causing service interruption) and then re-jumpered back to the
original path (causing service interruption again).
DSX
• Limited cable management. All cross-connect circuits must be
manually traced to find the corresponding circuit.
The above limitations have caused the following conditions:
• Increased operating and maintenance costs due to labor
intensive activities
• Unnecessary circuit downtime impacting subscribers and
reducing revenues
• Lower reliability and quality of service
CENTRAL OFFICE
Wire-Wrap
Network
Element
DDF
DDF
Network
Element
Solder
Terminaon
(No Circuit Access)
Current Configuration
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Migrating to next generation networks
CommScope’s DSX solution offers the following benefits:
Unparalleled reliability through significantly reduced service
outages.
As your vehicle for increasing profitability, improving operations
and raising customer satisfaction, DSX will:
Monitor ports on the DSX allow for non-intrusive testing; IN and
OUT ports allow for quick and easy access for patching; future
upgrades to new equipment can be made without interruption of
service.
Decrease annual maintenance costs
Significantly reduced operating and maintenance expenses.
Reduce/eliminate lost revenue and lost customers
IN, OUT, and Monitor ports allow fast and easy access to circuits
for testing, monitoring and patching. No longer will wires have to
be disconnected for testing.
Facing a deregulated market, you’re vulnerable to the competition.
Service affecting outages previously tolerated by end-users can
now drive them to your competition.
Unsurpassed cable management
CommScope’s DSX gives you the competitive advantage by
decreasing service outages and helping you maintain your customer
base.
Adopting CommScope’s DSX solution provides the greatest savings
per circuit over the life of the product.
Cross-connect circuits are identified via the lighted LEDs (no
manual tracing of circuit is needed). Cable rings, skeleton bays, and
other accessories ensure effective cable management which will
help reduce maintenance costs, facilitate the fast deployment of
new services and technologies, and accommodate future growth
with minimal impact to ongoing operations.
Improve time to ROI
Extraordinary savings allow companies to recover their investment
faster than with any other alternative DDF solution.
CommScope’s DSX solutions improve a company’s competitiveness
and profitability.
Flexibility through modularity
The DSX system gives the flexibility to grow as cards, chassis and
bays can be added as needed.
Network
Element A
LED
Tracer
Wire
DSX
MON
MON
Tx OUT
Rx IN
OUT
IN
PERMANENT
EQUIPMENT
CABLE
X-OUT
OUT
IN
X-IN
X-OUT
SemiPermanent
Cross
Connect
Jumper
Network
Element B
DSX
X-IN
OUT
IN
M
O
I
OUT
IN
Tx OUT
Rx IN
PERMANENT
EQUIPMENT
CABLE
DSX Configuration
Circuit Access Available for Monitoring, Testing, and Patching
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Everyone communicates. It’s the essence of
the human experience. How we communicate
is evolving. Technology is reshaping the way
we live, learn and thrive. The epicenter of this
transformation is the network—our passion. Our
experts are rethinking the purpose, role and usage of networks to help our customers increase
bandwidth, expand capacity, enhance efficiency,
speed deployment and simplify migration. From
remote cell sites to massive sports arenas, from
busy airports to state-of-the-art data centers—
we provide the essential expertise and vital
infrastructure your business needs to succeed.
The world’s most advanced networks rely on
CommScope connectivity.
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