This comprehensive 2-day course has been designed for telecommunications engineers who have an understanding of the role of copper in telecommunications however are looking to learn how to install fibre optic cabling into their network for the first time.

From uses and maintenance issues through to termination practices and procedures, those attending will gain an in-depth overview associated with optical fibre.l and analogue

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Duration
2 days

Who should attend?
Commissioning engineers, maintenance personnel, project managers or anyone wanting to gain an insight into optical fibre testing and commissioning

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

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Course Content (40% Theory, 60% Practical)

Introduction
• Advantages of fibre optic links
• Telecom network applications for use of fibre optic cable
• Gigabit transmission fundamentals, 100 base-f
• Core & cladding sizes

History of the telephone
• Principles of telephony
• Analogue to digital conversation
• Basic telephone theory

Brief theory of light
• Optical windows, infra-red, dBs measurement, dB loss versus distance
• Optical fibre transmission theory
• Overview of silica fibre parameters

Topologies
• From the telephone exchange to the home, the last mile
• How telephony line reaches the subscribers property
• Fibre to the Mux
• FTTH (Fibre To The Home)
• Blown Fibre

Basic construction of an optical fibre cables
• External fibre cable construction
• Connector types
• Fibre safety, general safety procedures for working with fibre

Commissioning and testing procedures
• Loss parameters & measurements
• Transmission budgets, end-to-end loss, continuity testing techniques
• Testing with the optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR)
• Fault finding techniques
• Bending losses splices losses, connector losses
• Documentation