Patent ID: 8264355

Claim:
A radio-frequency identification (RFID) method of deploying and/or maintaining an optical fiber network (OFN), comprising: providing a plurality of RFID tags associated with a corresponding plurality of OFN components that constitute the OFN; writing to two or more of the plurality of RFID tags using at least one RFID reader, OFN component data relating to at least one property of the corresponding OFN component; recording and storing the OFN component data in an OFN-component-data database unit; and automatically updating the OFN-component-data database by reading OFN component data from the two or more of the plurality of RFID tags using the at least one RFID reader, wherein the OFN component data is read from the two or more of the plurality of RFID tags and shows a relationship among two or more of the plurality of OFN components corresponding to the two or more of the plurality of RFID tags.