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Summary
FiberSmart Robotics, formerly Wave2Wave Solution, makes software-directed robotic fiber switches that reconfigure optical patch connections in datacenters and carrier facilities without a technician handling cables. The flagship ROME (Robotic Optical Management Engine) comes in sizes from about 200 fibers (ROME Mini) to up to 2,000 fibers in a single bay (ROME MAX), with a mobile robot, ROMER, listed as “expected to launch soon” and a cloud digital twin, DC Twin. The company shows logos for Microsoft, Vodafone, KPN, NTT, Salesforce, Juniper, Ciena and others and states a lights-out datacenter goal. Revenue, headcount and funding were not found in any source reviewed; the company’s own figures (100+ customers, $500,000 annual savings per unit) are unaudited.
Key Facts
- Name history: Wave2Wave Solution (David Wang, President and CEO in 2018), now FiberSmart Robotics; founding year not stated on the company’s About page
- HQ: San Francisco, CA per the company’s website; Napa, CA (1300 1st St., Suite 368) per CB Insights
- Type: Private; no funding disclosure found
- Products: ROME (robotic optical switch), ROMER (mobile datacenter robot, not yet launched per the website), DC Twin (cloud 3D digital twin with port-level visibility)
- ROME models (per company):
- ROME Mini: 7RU, 200 fibers
- ROME 500: 10+1RU, 512 fibers
- ROME Q: 64Q or 128Q, MPO interfaces for QSFP devices
- ROME MAX: up to 2,000 fibers in one bay
- Company-stated performance: 1 µm positioning accuracy; 50–150 W power; 3 million connect/disconnect cycles; passive mechanical latching keeps circuits up during power loss; single-mode and multi-mode fiber
- Customer logos shown: Hitachi Vantara, Virgin Media, Vodafone, KPN, Ciena, Salesforce, Fujitsu, NTT, Booking.com, Juniper Networks, Microsoft
- Company-stated outcome: $500,000 savings per ROME unit per year (the website attributes it to Microsoft in one place and Juniper in another)
- Competitors named by CB Insights: SENKO Advanced Components, Telescent, Summit Infrastructure Group
What It Is / How It Works
Fiber patch panels connect servers, switches and optical transport gear through manually placed jumpers. Changing a circuit means a technician finds the ports, moves the jumper and reseats the connectors, which is slow in dense panels and a common source of errors.
ROME replaces that step with robots inside a rack-mounted unit. Per the company, two robots in each unit handle hundreds of fibers, and a software interface lets an operator or automation system request a connection that ROME makes physically. The system keeps a live record of what is connected to what, and passive latching holds circuits when power is lost. The company says ROME is protocol agnostic and works with both single-mode and multi-mode fiber.
ROMER is described as a mobile robot for cabling, equipment swaps and diagnostics across a datacenter. The website says it is “expected to launch soon”; the About page calls it recent without a date. It remains unlaunched in sources reviewed.
DC Twin is a cloud-based 3D model synchronized to port-level connection data.
Context. ROME manages existing patch-panel plant and complements approaches that remove patch cables, such as the blind-mate optical connections in the SoftBank Robot Rack. Connector makers such as Senko address the same layer from the connector side.
Notable Developments
- 2025-09: Company website last updated; positions ROME as part of a “lights-out” datacenter goal and lists ROMER as expected to launch soon. (FiberSmart)
- 2025-03: Company blog post describes ROME as protocol agnostic, citing 800G and beyond, with no named customers or measurements. (FiberSmart blog)
- 2024-08: Lightstorm launches the Polarin DCI Wave, a Layer 1 product built with FiberSmart that lets enterprises self-provision optical connections across more than 60 datacenters in India in about 10 minutes (per CB Insights). (CB Insights)
- 2018-11: Wave2Wave adds ROME 64Q and ROME 128Q with MPO interfaces (512 and 1,024 fiber connections). (Converge Digest)
- 2014: Wave2Wave acquires a company in Israel, according to the company’s About page. (FiberSmart)
Key People
David Wang — President and CEO (as of November 2018)
- LinkedIn: not found
- Role: President and CEO of Wave2Wave Solution in 2018 per Converge Digest; current title not confirmed on the company’s website, which lists no leadership
- Source: Converge Digest
No other people were confirmed from fetched sources.
People — Last Reviewed: 2026-10-23
Supply Chain Position
| Layer | Detail |
|---|---|
| Hardware (ROME unit) | Servo-driven robots, encoders and fiber-compatible end effectors; component suppliers not disclosed |
| Connectors supported | MPO interfaces on ROME Q; other connector types not stated on the product page |
| Software | Connection management, analytics and DC Twin; details not published |
| Customers (downstream) | Hyperscale, carrier and enterprise logos listed; NTT says testing and deployment at select facilities per FiberSmart |
| Competitors | Telescent, SENKO and others per CB Insights |
⚑ Shared theme: Robotic fiber patching is one of several approaches to removing manual cabling in this section; see SoftBank Robot Rack for the blind-mate alternative.
Claim Verification
Claim: $500,000 annual savings per ROME unit
Status: Unverified
Supporting sources:
- FiberSmart website — states the figure and attributes it to Microsoft in one section
Refuting / questioning sources:
- The same page attributes the figure to Juniper Networks in another section. No customer statement or audit was found.
Summary: A company-published number with inconsistent attribution.
Claim: Human error causes 70–75% of network downtime
Status: Unverified
Supporting sources:
- FiberSmart website — cites the Uptime Institute for 70–75%; the ROME page cites “industry studies” for 70%
Refuting / questioning sources:
- The underlying Uptime Institute figure was not retrieved. The figure covers human-caused downtime generally, not only patching.
Summary: A third-party statistic repeated by the company; it does not show how much downtime ROME removes.
Claim: 1 µm positioning accuracy and 3 million cycles
Status: Unverified
Supporting sources:
- ROME product page — 1 µm from servo control and encoders; 3 million connect/disconnect cycles
Refuting / questioning sources:
- The same page elsewhere describes accuracy as “sub-millimeter,” and the page gives no insertion loss, switching speed or test data.
Summary: Specifications are claims without published test results.
Claim: Earthquake and cyber resilience
Status: Unverified
Supporting sources:
- ROME product page — claims shake-table tests to magnitude 7.0 with no signal loss afterward
Refuting / questioning sources:
- No test report or third-party certification found.
Summary: Marketing claim only.