The Advanced Fibre Splicing course OP-492 is suitable for engineers who need to acquire enhanced splicing and jointing skills. The 5 day course starts by covering the key aspects of fibre technology including applications and benefits. In addition the course gives an understanding of how fibre works and the losses created by connectors splices and bends. We go on to outline the key factors when planning and installing a fibre link. This will include how to calculate loss budgets and how to select fibres for particular spans and data rates. It is a great foundation to the practical exercises that follow.
Practical Sessions
During the Advanced Fibre Splicing course you will make an inline telecom joint and splice two cables together and add a spur cable. You will also terminate a patch panel and connect it to a small wall box and then test the link. In addition, to give you experience of a variety of joints, you will complete a large wall mount box (Budi type) and a multiport flexibilty joint. You will also directly terminate connectors and learn how to inspect, test and clean them.
By the end of the course you will be proficient in the following:
SPLICING
- Fibre preparation – prepare fibres and make them ready for splicing using the best methods and tools
- Cable Stripping – how to prepare cables – indoor, aerial and armoured for jointing without damaging the fibres using the best tools and methods
- Fusion Splicing – splice optical fibres quickly and with low losses – how to avoid weak splices
- Repair a broken fibre – how to repair a fibre in an existing joint
- How to maintain a fusion splicer for optimum performance what can you do in the field
- How to splice a 1U patch panel efficiently and neatly – an internal cable is spliced to pigtails
- How to splice a small wall box – with little space to work with you need to take extra care to produce a good result.
- How to splice a multifibre multitube cable into a Node joint – telecom, FTTx and renewable energy use them – take your splicing skills up a notch
- Making and Testing an FTTx connection You will make a Cabinet joint and connect an optical splitter to a patch panel. You will connect fibre to a distribution joint and a subscriber joint.
- Mid-span Joint – How to install a cable in a mid-span joint – a section of sheath is removed and unbroken fibre tubes are installed in a multi-port joint and several fibres are spliced.
TESTING
- How to test a fibre link using a visible light source – easy to use for fault finding but we show what else it will do
- How to test a link with a source and meter then produce an Insertion Loss test Report – the gold standard test but we will show you the best method.
- How to setup an OTDR, pulse width, range and averaging time and how test short and long cables then how to automate testing to work faster.
CONNECTORS
- Connector Inspection – identify connector faults using hand held and video microscopes.
- Connector Cleaning – you will learn to clean connectors properly using the latest and best methods
- Connector Termination – learn the best ways to put a connector onto fibre, mechanical and fusion splice on connectors.
TRAINING NOTES CONTENT
- OPTICAL FIBRES AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS
- HEALTH & SAFETY
- CABLES & CONNECTORS
- TESTING
- SPLICING
- FIBRE MANAGEMENT & JOINTING
- CONNECTOR TERMINATION
