Fiberizer Cloud FAQ

Fore small and medium businesses the investments are really minimal, because Fiberizer Cloud comes in two flavors: SaaS and Corporate Server. The latter is available here on this website fiberizer.com, and to run it all you need to invest is less than 5 minutes of your work time needed to download the MS Silverlight plugin (see the detailed instruction how install it). As for hardware, you will most likely need the same equipment and operation system that you are already using at your PCs. The complete list of compatible operation systems and browsers can be found here at the System Requirements tab

If your business is big enough and you need the Fiberizer Cloud Corporate Server, please contact our Sales Dept.

Currently Linux-based systems do not directly support the Silverlight plugin on which Fiberizer Cloud is built. However, there is an indirect way to make it work for you, with a project named Pipelight. The project allows you to run Silverlight 5.1 application on Linux browsers supporting Netscape Plugin API (Firefox, Chrome / Chromium, Midori, Opera, etc). If you care about technical details you can read it here. In a not very technical nutshell, a Silverlight application starts as a Windows process which runs officially supported Silverlight 5.1 through the patched Wine.

Yes, the application was successfully tested on MacOS 10.5.7 and later, and we recommend Firefox 12+ or Safari 4+ browser. Roughly one out of ten Fiberizer Cloud users works from MacOS computers.

Our application is a cloud-based service compatible with Windows PCs and iOS and Android devices. It means that for specialized procedures like OTDR trace analysis, trace editing, and report generation, you can engage the computation power and usability of general-purpose computers and mobile devices. Besides, you can employ BYOD policy, with proper security measures, of course. Even more, the standard Fiberizer Cloud includes the unique functionality of virtual network modelling, which can help you make additional verification of installed fiber optic lines and train your personnel.

Fiberizer Cloud has not one, but three major groups of functions. They are: measurement data storage and management, OTDR trace analysis and editing, and generating a report for a batch of traces. Within each group there are options which help you automate and customize your measurement and business procedures. Besides, with Fiberizer Cloud you can run software simulations of network behavior, defining virtually any component parameters.

For the majority of business scenarios, cloud computing and storage is more secure than transferring your measurement data via an external data carrier, or even via email and instant messaging. With those older methods, files tend to get lost with a USB flash stick forgotten in a car, or get intercepted because of a non-secured ICQ transfer used in a hurry. Fiberizer Cloud utilises the HTTPS protocol, an international standard for secure communication, and files are transferred within the closed system, so you are well-protected from the majority of threats related to negligence or intentional hacking.