New Courses
- OP-456-61-ORP – Fibre Training Specific to Offshore, Renewables and Power Cable applications.
- OP-455 Fibre Network Troubleshooting – You are running a fibre network but is it working correctly? We show you how to be sure, preventative maintenance, best practices, best tools to get and what do you do if it goes wrong.
- OP-431 Fibre Optic Refresher – Want to refresh your skills and update your knowledge of fibre technology.
- OP-10 Fusion Splicer Maintenance – Fusion splicer acting up, cleaver giving poor cleaves this half day course will sort your problems.
For Details on any of the above – email us or phone
Core Course – OP-456-61 Splicing Testing & Terminating – The full practice based course to upskill into fibre optic technology, learn to splice and test, troubleshoot and fix fibre issues
FIBRE OPTIC TRAINING DATES
- 26 to 28 January
- 2 to 4 February
- 11 to 13 February
- 16 to 18 February
- 23 to 25 February
- 2 to 4 March
- 9 to 11 March
Overview
OP-456-61 is a practice based course giving you the skills needed to install, test and troubleshoot a fibre link, If you are starting out in fibre or needing to up-skill, this is the best fibre course. Our courses are delivered at our office in Clydebank near Glasgow but we do run courses in other locations and have delivered public courses in Aberdeen, Basildon, Birmingham, Bristol, Carlisle, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Peterborough, Cardiff and Reading and company specific courses all over the UK.
Background
Fibre Training Course OP-456-61 is Industry based incorporating best practices in telecom, datacom, FTTX, offshore and renewables. It is intense and comprehensive and consists of 24 practical modules on splicing, jointing, testing, and troubleshooting of fibre networks. You use the best quality splicing machines from Fujikura and UCL Swift and test equipment from Anritsu and Grandway during the course.
What you will Learn
SPLICING
- How to operate and maintain a fusion splicer and cleaver – how to maintain the equipment in the field and fix problems
- Preparation of a cable ready for splicing and jointing, including cable sheath removal, buffer tube removal and fibre cleaning – which are the best tools to use.
- How to prepare and splice a multi-port node joint as used in telecom, Fibre to the home and renewable energy systems
- Repairing a broken fibre. A broken fibre is repaired within a node joint
- Cable Stripping – A variety of fibre cables, indoor, aerial and armoured are stripped using the most appropriate cable stripping tools.
- Testing a splice – A splice is monitored as it is made using an OTDR and the true bi-directional loss is then measured
- Splicing and Testing a Termination Joint and Wall Box connection
- You will connect a fibre patch panel to a small wall-mount termination box, and you will test the quality of the link with a source and meter and OTDR. This demonstrates how to splice pigtails on to a route cable between termination joints and how to test the link
TESTING
- Use a Visible Light Source to check continuity and fault-find – A basic but important tool for fault finding
- Insertion Loss Measurement with source and meter – An essential test when a fibre network is commissioned
- OTDR Practice – Measurement of a 4 fibre Optical Link. The key fault locating device which is also used for commissioning. Set up of main parameters, pulsewidth, range, resolution and averaging time. Includes the measurement of fibre length and loss and reflectance of connectors in the link and the generation of a test report.
- OTDR Event measurement, the OTDR is used to measure splices, connectors, end reflections and the end to end loss of a cable and Optical Return Loss.
- OTDR Commissioning/troubleshooting of short cables that have multiple reflections.
- OTDR Testing of cables with connectors, splices and bends – Commissioning/troubleshooting of longer cables that have splices and connectors.
- Testing a bare fibre end use a bare fibre adapter to test a cable drum, and prove the fibre meets specifications for loss and length. This is useful for QA of cable drums after delivery to site.
- Fibre Link Troubleshooting – A 4 fibre cable link between patch panels is tested using OTDR, Visible source and ILM equipment All events and faults are identified and analysed.
- Traces are analysed on PC based software and a full test report is generated as a pdf.
- Fibre Identification – how to check fibres are connected correctly and how to trace fibres
CONNECTORS & TERMINATING
- Connector Inspection – optical and video microscopes are used to identify faults on the surface of a connector.
- Connector Cleaning – the best ways to clean connectors.
- Direct Connector Termination using Mechanical Splice on Connectors.
- Direct Connector Termination using Fusion Splice On Connectors.
TRAINING NOTES CONTENTS:
(1) OPTICAL FIBRES AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS
(2) HEALTH & SAFETY
(3) CABLES & CONNECTORS
(4) TESTING
(5) OTDR BASICS
(6) OTDR SPECIFICATIONS AND CAPABILITIES
(7) USING THE OTDR
(8) SPLICING
(9) FIBRE MANAGEMENT & JOINTING
(10) CONNECTOR TERMINATION
We can also tailor the course to suit any specific needs so let us know ahead of the course if you have any issues that you need to address. We can deliver courses at your site if required.
For more details on the course check here
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