First City-Scale Deployment of DASs with Satellite Imagery and AI for Live Telecom Infrastructure Management

Publication Date: 7/1/2025

Event: OECC/PSC 2025

Reference: PDP-A-4; 1-3, 2025

Authors: Ming-Fang Huang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Tingfeng Li, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Shaobo Han, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Biplob Debnath, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Eric Cosatto, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Tina Zheng, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Scott Kotrla, Verizon; Glenn A. Wellbrock, Verizon; Tiejun J. Xia, Verizon; Jeffrey A Mundt, Verizon; Ting Wang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Yoshiaki Aono, NEC Corporation; Koji Asahi, NEC Corporation

Abstract: We demonstrate real-time fiber risk assessment and dynamic network routing in live metro networks using deployed DASs, satellite imagery, and large-scale AI, achieving the first significant reduction in fiber failures in four years

Publication Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11111070