Openserve Turns to AI Fibre Sensing to Catch Cable Damage Before It Happens

Openserve is adding AI and machine learning to its network operations centre to detect threats to fibre cables before they cause outages, as Telkom’s wholesale arm moves toward more autonomous network management. The core technique is fibre sensing: the network learns over time what normal vibration around a cable route looks like, and flags anything unusual. “So, we know that if a car is going over the bridge and a fibre vibrates in a certain way it’s normal traffic.