CFOS/FC : CERTIFIED FIBER OPTIC SPECIALIST (FIBER CHARACTERIZATION)
This is a specialist certification covering fiber optic testing for the purposes of characterizing long distance fibers used in very high speed WDM networks. It is intended for technicians involved in the design, installation or testing of fiber networks.
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This is a specialist certification covering fiber optic testing for the purposes of characterizing long distance fibers used in very high speed WDM networks. It is intended for technicians involved in the design, installation or testing of fiber networks.
Course Overview
Course Description
This is a specialist certification covering fiber optic testing for the purposes of characterizing long distance fibers used in very high speed WDM networks. It is intended for technicians involved in the design, installation or testing of fiber networks.
Course Prerequisite
CFOT, CFOS/T recommended
Course Content
- Defining FC
- When to characterize a FO link
- FC by inspection
- Parameter set up and advanced event/trace analysis
- Dealing with difficult event/trace analysis
- Intro. To DWDM/CWDM ‘bands’
- Fiber suitable for DWDM transmission/network
- AP Test set up using practical manufacturers’ equipment
- Defining CD and CD Parameters
- Causes of CD in a FO link/network
- Types of SMFs and their applications to the links
- CD interpretations and mathematical calculation
- CD limitations and compensation
- CD Testing
- Defining PMD
- PMD and DGD as they affect FO links
- Dealing with PMD from FOC and Networks Equipment manufacturers’
- PMD parameters and calculations
- When to measure PMD
- PMD Testing