CFOS/D : CERTIFIED FIBER OPTIC SPECIALIST (NETWORK DESIGN)
This is a specialist application certification for technicians involved in the planning, design and management of installation of fiber networks. The KSAs for CFOS/D cover fiber optic network design from concept to completion.
This is a specialist application certification covering fiber optic network design intended for network owners, IT personnel, facilities managers, network designers, estimators or technicians involved in the design or installation of fiber networks.
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The skill to be acquired in this course centered on: Installation, Termination, Splicing, and Testing & Documentation among other skills
Course Overview
Course Description
This is a specialist application certification for technicians involved in the planning, design and management of installation of fiber networks. The KSAs for CFOS/D cover fiber optic network design from concept to completion.
This is a specialist application certification covering fiber optic network design intended for network owners, IT personnel, facilities managers, network designers, estimators or technicians involved in the design or installation of fiber networks.
Course Prerequisite
A CFOT, CPCT or equivalent basic knowledge of fiber optics and Communications networksÂ
Course Content
- What is involved in designing a fiber optic network
- What need to know to design a fiber optic network
- Design process step by step
- What references are available
- Determining the routing of the cable plant
- How the proposed routing of the cable plant affects equipment and component choice and installation
- Choosing proper communications equipment
- How to choose components appropriate for communications systems
- How the proposed routing of the cable plant affects component choice and installation
- Using loss budgets to ensure the communications systems will work over the fiber optic proposed cable plant
- Determining what the loss of the link should be to compare to test results after the cable plant is installed.
- How to determine what should be tested and documented for the cable plant
- Determining how the field tests should be performed and what measurement results should be expected.
- What paperwork and documentation will be needed for the project
- Differences between a Scope of Work (SOW), Request for Proposal (RFP) and Request for Quote (RFQ).
- How to write specifications for a project that will properly define the project and be clear to all parties involved
- How to create a plan to install the project
- How to create a plan for restoration in event of a network outage
- How to manage the installation
- How to Apply your knowledge from lessons 1-7 on a number of different case studies
- How to choose components and calculate loss budgets
- How to calculate a loss budget
- How to specify tests of a completed network.
Practical illustration of how the following network scenario will look like
- Fibre To The Home
- Metropolitan Telecom Network
- Long Distance Telecom Network
- Corporate LAN Backbone
- Campus LAN Backbone
- Industrial Link
- Date Center
- CCTV Surveillance Link
- Metropolitan Government Network