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Your network begins where your visibility ends.

Every packet you inspect spent its life as light in a nine-micron core that nothing in your stack has ever measured. Mahlet measures it — power, protocol overhead and physical coding, continuously.

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If you can't see it, you can't
secure it, fix it, or optimize it.

A clamp-on coupler bleeds a fraction of a percent off a span and every tool you own keeps reporting green. The frames still arrive. The checksums still pass. The interface never flaps. What changes is the optical budget — and until now, nothing was watching the budget.

Cost of downtime

$300K / hour

Average cost of unplanned network downtime for an enterprise operator.

Dwell time

181days

Mean time to identify a breach — time an unseen tap keeps producing.

Root cause

33%

Of organizations never determine the root cause of a breach at all.

Fiber outage

8hours

Average time to detect and repair a fiber outage without layer-one telemetry.

The platform

Four readings,taken below the packet.

Core9 µmEvery packet you own
Cladding125 µmTotal internal reflection
Coating250 µmMechanical protection

Infrastructure

Optical

Transmit and receive power per wavelength, span loss against a characterised baseline, and utilisation — sampled continuously rather than polled on failure.

  • Rx / Tx power, dBm
  • Budget drift
  • Return loss
  • LOS / LOF

Optical Protocols

OTN · SDH

Overhead is where a transport network states who it is. Mahlet reads ITU-T G.709 and SDH/SONET overhead directly, and flags a path that stops telling the truth.

  • TTI / J0 / J1 trace
  • BIP-8
  • G.826 metrics
  • Tandem connection

Ethernet PCS

PCS

The physical coding sublayer sits beneath anything a packet broker can hand you. Block-level faults surface here hours before they become an interface counter.

  • 64b/66b sync headers
  • Invalid blocks
  • Lane skew
  • Pre-FEC floor

Integration

Egress

Layer-one evidence is only useful where your analysts already work. Mahlet emits normalised events into the stack you run — no new console to staff.

  • SIEM
  • NDR / XDR
  • Packet brokers
  • Streaming telemetry
Performance & Optimization

Utilization and headroom measured at the physical layer, before it becomes a capacity argument.

Security & Compliance

Evidence of physical-layer integrity, retained and auditable rather than assumed.

Resilience & Reliability

Degradation caught while it is still drift, not after it has become an outage.

How a tap is found

Four minutes, not a hundred
and eighty-one days.

01
Placement

A coupler is clamped to the span

No frame is lost. No interface flaps. No alarm is raised anywhere in your stack, because from layer two upward nothing has actually changed.

02
Signature

Received power falls 0.42 dB

Non-reflective, mid-span, and absent from the characterised baseline. Half a decibel that no splice, connector or bend on the route accounts for.

03
Correlation

It arrives in your SIEM as evidence

Not a link-quality warning buried in a NetOps tool — a first-class security event with the optical measurement attached, beside everything else your analysts already see.

04
Location

Resolved to a point on the fibre

26.3 km along the span. A team is sent to a place rather than to a route, and the window closes in an afternoon instead of half a year.

See it working

Two minutes ona live span.

A walkthrough of the platform against a real fibre route — baseline, event, correlation, and the loss resolved to a point on the span.

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Where it lands

Evidence, notanother dashboard.

Findings arrive as first-class events in the tools your analysts already have open, with the optical measurement attached.

Deployed through technology and channel partners into carrier, government and defense environments

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Find out what yourfirst layer has been doing.

A scoped assessment of one span, one site, or one route. We baseline the optics, characterise every event on the fibre, and show you what was never in your telemetry.

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