CFOS/a : CERTIFIED FIBER OPTIC SPECIALIST (FIBER TO THE ANTENNA)
Course Overview
Course Description
Course Prerequisite
Course Content
- Why Fiber to the Antenna
- New Generation Cell Towers
- Getting Signal To/From the Tower
- Traditional Tower System
- Todays Tower System
- Next Generation Tower System
- Top of Tower Systems
- Tower Cable
- Fiber terminations
- Prefab Cables with Outlet Boxes
- Installing the Cable on a Tower
- Rooftop or Building Installations
- Rooftop Antennas
- Rooftop Installations
- Small Cells
- Worldwide Penetration Of FTTH
- Gigabit FTTH Is Possible
- Gigabit FTTH Is Real!
- Gigabit FTTH Is Spreading
- Cabling Options: Terminating Onsite
- Testing the Cable
- Dry fiber optic cleaning tools
- Connector Handling
- Microscope Inspection of Connector
- Connector Visual Inspection Video
- Areas of Inspection
- Visual Fault Location
- Insertion Loss Testing On FTTA Cable
- Insertion Loss Test Equipment And Fiber Optic Power Meters Measure dB
- Setting �0dB� Reference
- The Fiber Optic Loss Budget
- Troubleshooting
- OTDR Splice/Connector Loss Errors
- OTDR Trace for FTTA Loss Up and Down
- Fiber Optic Power Meters Controls And Display
- OTDR Measurement Uncertainty
- OTDR Splice/Connector Loss Errors
- Testing FTTA Cables With OTDR
- Connector Inspection And Cleaning
- Visual Tracing and Fault Location
- Insertion Loss Testing
- Optical Power