This 1-day course is designed for engineers who are looking to install plastic fibre for the first time.

Through theoretical study and practical hands-on exercises those attending will benefit from gaining and understanding of plastic fibre uses and maintenance issues through to termination practices and procedures. Design rules, cabling distances and transmission rates of plastic optical fibre will also be examined. analogue

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Duration
1 day

Who should attend?
Fibre installers, commissioning engineers, maintenance personnel, project managers or anyone wanting to gain an insight into plastic fibre

Prerequisites
No previous experience is necessary

Course objectives
Delegates gain the knowledge, skills and terminology of plastic optical fibre installation and testing

Qualifications
BTEC applied for, CableNet certificate

Related Training
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Fibre in an Internal Environment
Design & Advanced Testing of Fibre Systems
Introduction to Laser Safety
Testing & Commissioning of Fibre in Telecomm Networks

Course Content (80% Theory, 20% Practical)

Introduction
• Explanation & advantages of plastic fibre optic links
• Network applications for use of plastic fibre
• Plastic fibre & gigabit transmission
• Core & cladding sizes

Brief theory of light
• Optical windows
• Infra-red light
• dB’s

Optical fibre transmission theory
• Overview of plastic fibre parameters
• Brief overview of silica fibre parameters

Plastic optical fibre cables
• Plastic fibre cable construction
• Internal plastic fire
• External plastic fibre

Connectors
• Plastic fibre connector construction & termination

Plastic fibre safety
• General safety procedures for working with plastic fibre
• Laser safety
• Fibre safety

Plastic optical fibre practical
• Fibre connector set-up
• Practical fibre termination methods