3-Day Training “Standard”

I. THEORETICAL PART (12 lessons)

• How to work safely.

• Basic concepts and units in optical communications.

• Cable optical communication system elements.

• Optical fiber – structure and operating wavelength range. Attenuation and dispersion.

• Optical fiber types according to ITU-T.

• Optical power loss. Calculation of the optical line budget.

• Wavelength multiplexing (WDM) – CWDM and DWDM.

• Passive optical networks (PON) – types, topology, and a principle of operation.

• Designing of passive optical network and active equipment installation.

• Connecting optical fiber.

• Fiber optic splicing.

• Measuring optical power and optical line loss.

• Working with an optical reflectometer – the principle of operation, operating modes, basic settings, events analysis, and anomalies.

 II. PRACTICAL PART (11 lessons)

• Arc fusion splicers – a principle of operation and basic settings.

• Splicer and cleaver maintenance. Common problems.

• Installation of an optical cable into an optical splice closure and wall-mountable box / ODF.

• Implementation of cable mid-span access.

• Arranging optical fibers.

• Measurement of optical line parameters with OTDR, events analysis.

 III. TEST and COMMENTARY ON MISTAKES (1 lesson)

Installation, test and maintenance of optical cable networks