Amphenol Network Solutions Offers Faster Fiber Management for Data Centers with FiberVault

Amphenol Network Solutions has launched FiberVault™, a hyperscale Optical Distribution Frame engineered to solve some of the most difficult challenges facing modern data centers: soaring fiber counts, limited space, complex maintenance workflows, and rising pressure to protect uptime while deploying capacity faster than ever.

AI and GPU clusters require dense mesh topologies, driving fiber counts into hundreds of thousands per site. With 5,760 splices per frame (11,520 back-to-back), tracing and validating fibers manually becomes unrealistic at scale. FiberVault addresses this by:

• Ensuring supply chain reliability: Frames are manufactured in North America for faster delivery and greater availability.
• Supporting true mesh networks with single-fiber splicing: Operators can map any fiber to any other while maintaining the low loss, low reflection, and long-term reliability of fusion splices.
• Reducing risk during Day-2 moves, adds, and changes: Pivoting shelves and organized splice capacities improve access and protect adjacent circuits to avoid service disruptions.
• Speeding installation with pre-assembled frames: Shipped fully welded and ready to deploy, FiberVault can be placed and used immediately. Factory-installed shelves eliminate assembly labor and can cut weeks from large rollouts.

FiberVault introduces a new tracer fiber system that enables light-guided circuit identification in high-density, splice-only environments, which is something traditional connector-based labeling cannot support at scale.

Instead of relying on cable labels, FiberVault uses a three-fiber jumper: two fibers carry live traffic, and a third tracer fiber routes to an accessible window on the front of each shelf. Technicians connect a standard VFL to one end, and the light appears at the corresponding window on the far side, instantly confirming the correct circuit. This allows teams to validate live connections without interruption, perform Day-2 moves, adds, and changes with confidence, and replace time-consuming manual tracing with a fast, repeatable process.

Unlike competing systems that simply store excess fiber, FiberVault makes the tracer path fully usable and visible from the front, an industry-first approach to circuit identification with tracer fiber and VFL technology.

Looking ahead, Amphenol Network Solutions is evolving the platform to support mass fusion splicing and connectorized patch-and-splice options, allowing customers to grow with the system as their architectures and densities change.

Key Features

• Each frame accommodates 120 Single Fusion or 64 Mass Fusion
• shelves, resulting in a capacity of 5,760 single splices or 2,304 Mass
• Fusion splices for 36,864 fibers per frame
• Shelves pivot from open to closed positions in a way that minimizes
  fiber movement, and splice trays nest together to protect spliced
  fibers that are carrying critical data traffic
• New to the industry, each circuit path has provisions for a “tracer”
  fiber to enable circuit identification through use of a simple visual
  fault locator
• The fiber tracer signals are visible at the front of the shelf in
  individual windows for easy identification even when the shelf is in
  the closed position
• Trunk cable breakout kits utilize split-sleeve tool enabling unprecedented speed and protection of bare
  ribbon during insertion, trimming and re-access (eliminates challenges created by feeding fiber through
  enclosed tubing or webbing).

Key Benefits

• Efficient installations are enabled by fully assembled racks shipped from the factory
• Racks are shipped pre-loaded with shelves to dramatically reduce installation time and reduce the
  inconvenience of excess packaging waste in the field
• Racks are built with integrated forklift slots in the base of the frame to enable easy placement of the
  racks on site using a forklift or pallet jack
• Universal breakout kits utilize split sleeve mesh and felt tape such that any type of cable construction
  can be addressed with a simple and uniform kit of materials in a fast and efficient manner
• Blocks of shelves and cable management supports are color coded to help technicians identify the
  proper routing paths quickly and easily

Key Quote

“FiberVault was born directly from hyperscale customer challenges,” said Harley McAllister, Senior Product Manager at Amphenol Network Solutions. “AI-driven networks are deploying four to five times more fiber than traditional environments, and old approaches to frame design and labeling simply don’t work anymore. With FiberVault, we’re giving operators extreme density, lower-loss splicing and, most importantly, a simple, light-guided way to confirm exactly which circuit they’re working on, without taking traffic down.”

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More information about the FiberVault™ Hyperscale Optical Distribution Frame from Amphenol Network Solutions

FiberVault data sheet