en.Wedoany.com Reported - The communications test and measurement solution provider officially announced on May 13 that it has been selected as a technology partner by German open wholesale fiber infrastructure operator OXG. EXFO will deploy its Remote Fiber Test and Monitoring (RFTM) platform, leveraging AI-driven automation capabilities to cover the entire process of OXG's nationwide FTTH network construction acceptance, service activation, and real-time operations and maintenance. The platform compresses fiber fault location time to minutes, providing a critical infrastructure layer foundation for OXG's strategy of achieving fully digital, highly resilient network operations.
OXG was founded in 2023 as a 50/50 joint venture between Vodafone and France's Altice Group, and is one of the main operators rapidly emerging in the German fiber access market. The company aims to provide fiber connections to seven million German households within approximately six years and has already built and delivered coverage to a large number of homes. Facing the continuous pressure of connecting and maintaining millions of home terminals, OXG's Head of Engineering, Phillip Burkey, stated in an official release that choosing EXFO was a straightforward decision. The team was particularly impressed by the technical depth of the solution, the user-friendliness of the interface, and the expertise of the EXFO team. The transparency and automation capabilities provided by the RFTM platform will help OXG simplify operational processes, accelerate fault detection and repair speed, and ultimately enhance the quality of service delivered to customers.
The core operational logic of the EXFO RFTM platform is to transform the traditional fiber operation and maintenance model, which relies on manual on-site troubleshooting, into remote, automated management based on cloud intelligence. By deploying intelligent OTDR monitoring units at key nodes of the fiber network, the platform continuously collects link performance data and uses its built-in AI engine to analyze fiber attenuation curves in real-time, identifying micro-bend losses, connector contamination, or breakage events. Once an anomaly is detected, the system automatically generates a geographical fault location and root cause inference. The operations and maintenance team can pinpoint the fault point without dispatching technicians for segment-by-segment inspection, significantly compressing the mean time to repair and simultaneously reducing the number of truck rolls.
EXFO's support spans the entire process, starting from the network construction phase. The official announcement revealed that EXFO will provide OXG with full-process deployment services, including solution design, system launch workshops, and end-to-end integration, and will continuously ensure the platform's performance, availability, and scalability after launch. This model allows OXG to embed the monitoring infrastructure synchronously from the very first kilometer of network deployment, avoiding the architectural fragmentation and retrofitting costs associated with overlaying a monitoring system later. Etienne Gagnon, General Manager of EXFO's Test and Measurement business, stated in the announcement that the RFTM platform is designed to help operators improve efficiency, enhance network stability, and reduce operational costs. This collaboration with OXG also confirms the industry's growing demand for intelligent, automated fiber monitoring solutions.
From an industry trend perspective, the German FTTH market is at a critical window where large-scale construction and operational capability upgrades are occurring simultaneously. The "2026 Telecom Market Watch" published by VATM in March 2026 shows that by the end of 2025, Germany's FTTH/B household coverage rate had risen to over 45%, with an annual net increase of more than five million homes passed. Among them, the combined homes passed by OXG, Deutsche Glasfaser, and Deutsche Telekom account for the majority share of the industry. As the pace of construction continues to accelerate, the operational pressure from activated users is accumulating exponentially, making remote automated monitoring a necessary capability for large-scale operations rather than an optional one.
EXFO has a long history of fiber operation and maintenance practices in Germany. Previously, its fiber monitoring solution was deployed by Kassel Public Utilities in Germany, helping the regional operator achieve proactive fault warning through intelligent OTDR and cloud-based analysis. At an earlier stage, Vodafone Germany used the EXFO Context platform to build a semantic digital twin of its network, serving zero-touch automation operational goals. OXG's selection of EXFO's RFTM platform continues the sustained adoption of EXFO's automated test and monitoring technology stack within the Vodafone ecosystem and also reflects a systemic shift in German fiber infrastructure operation and maintenance models from reactive response to proactive prevention.
OXG's network operates on an open access principle and currently provides wholesale access to multiple service providers, including Vodafone, 1&1, Bahnhof Nätverk, Thüringer Netkom, and Plusnet. The deployment of the EXFO monitoring platform will provide a unified network quality baseline for this multi-tiered access ecosystem, enabling different service providers to share quantifiable performance guarantees on the same physical network. This provides a credible operational foundation for OXG to continuously expand its partner scale.
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