Interactive component to map fibre breaks (OTDR)
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Added an OTDR trace component as the latest in my component library for datacentre/network apps. Mainly for my own use in rackout.
HN · launched Aug 16, 2026 · 9 upvotes (top 47%) · 0 views
Niche: technical data visualization tools · 49 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -57% · Explore this niche →
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- Logistics
- Analytics & BI
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Partial While standard chart components are vibe-codeable, accurately parsing proprietary binary OTDR files (Telcordia Bellcore GR-196 / SR-4731 SOR) and rendering interactive optical events requires specialized domain algorithms.
What it would actually take: Building this requires a React/TypeScript charting component (using Canvas, SVG, or WebGL) integrated with a parser for Telcordia SOR binary formats. The hard piece is correctly implementing optical signal processing logic to identify reflectance, Rayleigh backscatter slope, splice losses, and optical return loss (ORL) event markers from noisy optical time-domain reflectometry traces.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 21 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #9 of 22 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 249 days after the earliest competitor.
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