Optical Fiber Network Testing And Maintenance

Course details

In a business, the network allows personnel to accomplish the necessary operational tasks. A failed network is not productive and hence the uptime and reliability are very important to even the smallest businesses. The most important part of a network is the people who support it - without the proper care and training, the best-designed networks can fail in their fundamental mission and ROI will be affected.

This course covers maintenance, troubleshooting and emergency restoration of a fiber optic network in an outside plant environment. It will also provide the safe and fast fault finding, restoration procedures and practices, and testing with minimum downtime

Expected Accomplishments

• Understand optical fiber technology, cable routing
• Identifying faults and maintenance
• Know the different types of optical fiber cablesComply with the safety requirements while handling cables and test equipment
• Learn to read cable plans and cable routes, signs and symbols.
• Use different types of test equipment to identify faults
• Practice emergency restoration techniques and persity procedures

Course Outline

Introduction to optical fiber networks 

• Advantages and applications 
• Operational theory and systems 
• Types of optical fiber cables 
• Types of optical fiber cable closures

Safety on Optical Fibers 

• Laser
• Optical Fiber

Tracing Cable routes

• Reading route plans 
• Understanding markings, signs Ft symbols 
• How to use cable tracer

Testing and identifying faults

• Using fiber identifying test equipment 
• Using optical time domain reflectometer 
• Optical power meter

Testing network components 

• ODFs
• Patch Panels 
• Closures

Troubleshooting

• Emergency restoration methods 
• Different splicing methods