Clearfield, Inc. (Clearfield), incorporated on March 7, 1979, manufactures, markets and sells fiber management and enclosure platform that consolidates, distributes and protects fiber as it moves from the inside plant to the outside plant and all the way to the home, business and cell site. The Company's products include Clearview Cassette; Connectivity and Optical Components; FieldSmart; FieldShield; CraftSmart, and Cable Assemblies. The Company's products are sold across broadband service providers, including traditional telephone companies, competitive local exchange carriers, multiple service operators (cable television), wireless service providers and municipal-owned utilities that utilize fiber in their service offerings to businesses and consumers. The Company also sells fiber and copper products to commercial and industrial customers.
Clearview Cassette
The Company's Clearview Cassette is the building block of the Company's product platform. Clearview Classic and Clearview Blue is a system of approximately five parts that nest together in the cassette's main housing to support a range of applications. Its parts can be added or removed as needed to support the environment in which it is deployed. Clearview Blue is compatible with Clearview Classic, which is designed for modularity. It builds upon the Clearview Classic by offering a smaller footprint, and integrated slack storage and splicing functionality. Clearview xPAK is engineered to land small port count fiber terminations and optical components, the xPAK is shipped flat and unassembled. Its application environments include cell back-haul, business class service delivery, node segmentation, fiber exhaust scenarios, utility sub-stations or fiber-to-the-desk deployment. All types of fiber cable construction can be integrated within the cassette to support all patch only, patch and splice (in-cassette), passive optical component hardware and multi-fiber push on plug-and-play scenarios.
Connectivity and Optical Components
The Clearview system consolidates, distributes and protects fibers as they move from the inside plant to the home and business. These fibers are either connectorized directly for cable-to-cable deployment or are connectorized onto optical components that divides the signals they carry. It offers Cable-to-Cable Deployment and Optical Components. Clearfield packages optical components for signal coupling, splitting, termination, multiplexing, demultiplexing and attenuation for an integration within its fiber management platform. This packaging allows the customer to source from a single supplier.
FieldSmart
Utilizing the Clearview Cassette and xPAK as building blocks, FieldSmart is a series of panels, cabinets, wall boxes and other enclosures that house the Clearview components to provide a design from the inside plant of the telco's central office or cable television's head-end, all the way through the outside plant to the access network and through to the home. At each leg of the network, the FieldSmart platform delivers a modular architecture. The FieldSmart Fiber Crossover Distribution System (FxDS) and FieldSmart FxHD provides fiber management modularity across the fiber network. Using the Clearview building block approach, each fiber management element provides modularity of physical fiber protection in the environment in which it is placed. It can be configured for initial placement and scaling from 12-ports to a rack of 1,730 ports, the FieldSmart FxDS requires approximately four blocks to configure initial deployment. The user then places what is needed on the frame as subscriber take rates dictate. The FxHD is an integrated fiber management solution delivered through the Clearview Blue Cassette. With access to various cassettes, adapters and jumpers, the frame is designed as a front access frame, in which installation is done from one side of the frame. The FxHD can be placed against a wall, cage in data center co-location environments, or back to back.
The Company's FieldSmart Fiber Scalability Center (FSC) is a modular outside plant cabinet that allows rollout of Fiber-to-the-Premise services by communication service providers. Each outside plant cabinet stores feeder and distribution splices, splitters, connectors and slack cable, utilizing field-tested designs to bend radius protection, connector access, cable routing and physical protection. FieldSmart Fiber Delivery Point (FDP) is a series of enclosure systems that incorporates the delivery of fiber connectivity to the neighborhood or business district. This family of wall-mount enclosures provides 12 to 144 ports of connectivity for multi-dwelling unit fiber deployments, fiber demarcation, security systems (closed-circuit television (CCTV)), telecommunications room needs and horizontal/intermediate cross-connects.
The Company's FieldSmart Small Count Delivery (SCD) is a series of enclosure systems. This family of wall-mount enclosures, panels and drop cable cases provide up to 12 ports of connectivity. The FieldSmart SCD is targeted for application environments, such as cell backhaul, business class service delivery, node segmentation, fiber exhaust in a field pedestal, sub-station turn-up or fiber-to-the-desk deployment.
FieldShield
The Company's FieldShield is a fiber delivery method for broadband deployment. FieldShield is designed to support aerial, direct bury and inside plant last mile needs. FieldShield Microduct is placed using methods of boring and plowing, and technologies, such as micro trenching or saw cutting. FieldShield Pushable Fiber slips through the microduct's inner wall. Utilizing bend-insensitive glass, FieldShield Pushable Fiber is available in a range of fiber counts. The FieldShield YOURx platform consists of hardened terminals, test access points and multiple drop cable options designed for the access network, the fiber drop to the customer. FieldShield YOURx delivers drop cable options for various first build desire, such as FieldShield Flat-SC, FieldShield D-ROP, FieldShield FLEXdrop and FieldShield StrongFiber. The hardened FieldShield YOURx terminal provides a single product use approach at the drop for below grade, pedestal and pole mount options. The FieldShield YOURx-TAP provides a demarcation between the service provider and customer equipment.
CraftSmart
The CraftSmart is a line of optical protection field enclosures. The CraftSmart Fiber Protection Pedestals (FPP) and CraftSmart Fiber Protection Vaults (FPV) are integrated solutions. CraftSmart is a solution for the deployment of passive optics from the central office/head-end to the customer premise.
Cable Assemblies
The Company manufactures fiber and copper assemblies. It offers various assemblies, including single mode fiber, multimode fiber, multi-fiber, Community Access Television (CATV) node assembly, Digital Signal 1 (DS1) Telco, DS 3 (734/735) coax, Category 5e and 6, Small Computer System Interface (SCSI), Token Ring and V.35. In addition, Clearfield's engineering services works alongside the engineering design departments of its original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers to design and manufacture custom solutions for both in-the-box, as well as network connectivity assemblies specific to that customer's product line.
The Company competes with Corning Cabling Systems, Inc., Furukawa Electric North America, Inc., Fujikura Ltd., Nokia, Commscope, Inc., Emerson Electric Co., Charles Industries, Ltd. and PPC Broadband, Inc.
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The company trades on NASDAQ exchange. The company headquarter is located in Minnesota, MN. The company was established in the 1979.| Ticker | CLFD |
| Long Name | Clearfield, Inc. |
| Short Name | Clearfield |