Thursday 30 April 2020

Instead, you use gas traveling through flames



Instead, you use gas traveling through flames to create particles of soot—glass soot particles—that are deposited on a rod in a controlled pattern. And then he showed me a line of small blue flames that were slowly, mechanically being moved sideways up and down a white rod.

 This was the beginning of the creation of a strand of fiber: printing soot in carefully orchestrated layers on a solid rod. The composition of every layer of each hair-thin strand of glass—and each strand consists of thousands of layers—is controlled by tweaking the composition of gases traveling through the flames.
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Wednesday 29 April 2020

The head of Corning Glass Works research at the time



The head of Corning Glass Works research at the time, William Armistead, was skeptical. Nevertheless, he approved funding for Robert Maurer, a physicist, as well as colleagues Pete Schultz, a senior chemist, and Donald Keck, an engineer and physicist, to work on the problem.

And they did, without a customer insight. Maurer and his team knew that the glass would have to have a clear core surrounded by a skin—called cladding, and also made of glass—so that the cladding could reflect laser light back into the core and keep it traveling along its path. For four years, he and his team at Corning kept experimenting with different chemical compositions of the core to create the greatest possible clarity. Failure followed failure.
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One Friday evening in August 1970, Donald Keck was alone in the Corning R&D lab, testing one last piece of fiber before the weekend. In their book The Silent War, Ira Magaziner and Mark Patinkin tell the story of Keck bending over his microscope and lining up the laser, watching as the narrow beam of light got closer and closer to the core. Suddenly, Keck was hit right in the eye by a bright beam of light.

The fiber had transmitted light without losing more than a tiny amount of the beam’s strength. “Eureka,” Keck wrote in the lab notebook that day. It would be 10 more years before Corning found a customer for its optical fiber.

Tuesday 28 April 2020

Duct Type Single Sheathed Fiber Optic Cables


Overview
Loose tube designed. Duct type installation for highly reliable industrial applications. Applicable for outdoor and indoor applications, also it’s designed to protect optical fiber for the unexpected mechanical and environmental conditions. Qualification and acceptance testing are performed to assure the optical cable’s performance and durability in several environments.
Applications
Telecommunication applications. Video applications. Distribution. Long Haul Communication Systems. Metropolitan Communication Systems.
Highlights
  • Fiber counts up to 216
  • High tensile strength design
  • Fibers per loose tube 1-12
  • Gel filled cable core for the water resistance
  • Dry core design is also possible for water resistance in customer request
  • Suitable for duct applications
  • Colored fiber for the quick identification
  • UV resistance for the outer Sheath
  • High fiber count to diameter ratio
  • Fully complied with Telcordia GR-20 and TIA/EIA standards
  • Custom designs are available on request

Monday 27 April 2020

Licensed professionals will have to be hired to run the heavy machinery


Licensed professionals will have to be hired to run the heavy machinery. Planning infrastructure requires experienced engineers to map out where and how networks will be built. Wiring and maintaining the network means hiring both engineers and electricians full time to be in the central office, on a pole, or in someone’s home.

Not to mention, if the person doesn’t already have experience working with fiber the company and/or municipality has to spend time and money training them.
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A man works on a utility pole during a fire.
Engineers have to take care of poles even in dangerous situations.

When a company doesn’t have enough of the right people for the job they have to budget out hiring a new person vs. contracting that position out. It can sometimes end up being more trouble than it is worth, resulting in that project being put aside for another.

 One of the reasons it is often easier for municipalities to work in partnership with ISPs to build fiber infrastructure is because of the experienced and expensive personnel needed.

Friday 24 April 2020

Fixed wireless has the potential to meet fiber optic


Congestion: Fixed wireless has the potential to meet fiber-optic Internet speeds, but circumstances prevent the radio waves from ever catching up to the photons</strong>. You already know that Wireless degrades with distance, bringing the speed down with it, but there is a greater issue at hand. As with a cable connection, fixed wireless users share bandwidth across their local network, so when many people are accessing the network at once, the speed slows.

To put this in perspective, let’s say you are paying for a 100 Mbps network, but your share that network with all ten homes in your neighborhood. If everyone is on at once, you are getting 10 Mbps at best. Whereas if you are paying for a 100 Mbps network of fiber, that speed is just for your home alone.
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The Importance of Broadband
In 2016 3,424,971,237 people worldwide accessed the Internet. In the U.S. alone, 88.5% of citizens used the Internet. Every year these numbers grow, and the Internet becomes more and more important to our everyday lives, on an individual, and societal level.

Thursday 23 April 2020

Optical Fiber Testing Equipments

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Wednesday 22 April 2020

Fiber cable comes in two forms: multimode and single-mode.

Fiber cable comes in two forms: multimode and single-mode. A mode in optical transmission is a ray of light entering the core at a particular angle. Modes can therefore be thought of as bundles of light rays of the same wavelength entering the fiber at a specific angle.

Single-mode and multimode fiber have differences that range from structural to use in structured cabling systems. Single-mode fiber is capable of higher bandwidth and greater cable run distances (up to 3000 meters) than multimode fiber (up to 2000 meters only). Because of these characteristics, single-mode fiber is often used for interbuilding connectivity or WANs (for example telephone company switch-to-switch connection). Multimode fiber is more commonly used in LAN backbones within buildings.

Multimode fiber uses LEDs as the light source, while single-mode fiber generally uses laser light sources. Furthermore, single-mode fiber is typically more expensive than multimode. The reason is because the almost hair-size glass fiber in single-mode is more fragile and it needs added protection (coating and buffering materials) to make it manageable.
The much smaller and more refined fiber core in single-mode fiber, although it entails more manufacturing costs, is the reason single-mode has a considerably much higher bandwidth and cable run distances than multimode fiber.

Multimode
Multimode fiber allows multiple modes of light to propagate through the fiber-optic core, as compared to single-mode fiber, which only allows one mode. Multiple modes of light propagating through fiber might travel different distances, depending on their entry angles. This causes them to arrive at the destination (receiving end of the cable) at slightly different times, a phenomenon called "modal dispersion". Multimode uses a type of glass, called graded index glass, which has a lower index of refraction towards the outer edge of the core. This causes the light to slow down when passing through the center of the core and accelerate when passing through the outer areas of the core, ensuring that all modes of light reach the end at approximately the same time.
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A standard multimode fiber-optic cable (the most common brand of fiber-optic cable) uses an optical fiber with a 62.5-micron core and 125-micron cladding diameter. This is commonly designated as 62.5/125 optical fibers. Because the diameter of the cladding is considerably larger than the wavelength of the light being transmitted, the light bounces around (reflects) inside the core as it is propagated along the transmission line.

Multimode fiber uses LEDs as the light-generating device. LEDs are cheaper to build, require somewhat less safety concerns, and are effective for shorter distances than the lasers used in single-mode. Multimode (62.5/125) can carry data over distances of up to 2000 meters (6,560 ft.). It is mainly used in LAN applications including backbone cabling.

Tuesday 21 April 2020

Ethernet transmission with gigabit-per-second speeds



However, Ethernet transmission with gigabit-per-second speeds requires special conditioning of multimode fiber to reach 550 meters, and Ethernet that delivers 10 Gbps is limited to even shorter distances. That means operators of local-area and campus networks must upgrade their installed networks for GigE or 10-GigE.

In many cases, the obvious choice is to replace the old multimode fiber network with singlemode fiber. That's relatively easy and inexpensive if the old cabling is easily accessible. But as anyone who has ever had to rewire an old house has learned, recabling can be disruptive and downright expensive if it requires heavy construction or threading new cable through twisting paths in existing walls.
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Founded in 2013, Cailabs is applying technology it developed to very precisely shape light beams. The technology aims the beam into a fiber so that essentially all the light is captured in one of the many modes the fiber can carry.

"Basically, it's all about launching the right mode into the fiber," says company CEO Jean-François Morizur.

Monday 20 April 2020

Who invented fiber optics?

1840s: Swiss physicist Daniel Colladon (1802–1893) discovered he could shine light along a water pipe. The water carried the light by internal reflection.
1870: An Irish physicist called John Tyndall (1820–1893) demonstrated internal reflection at London's Royal Society. He shone light into a jug of water. When he poured some of the water out from the jug, the light curved round following the water's path. This idea of "bending light" is exactly what happens in fiber optics. Although Colladon is the true grandfather of fiber-optics, Tyndall often earns the credit.
1930s: Heinrich Lamm and Walter Gerlach, two German students, tried to use light pipes to make a gastroscope—an instrument for looking inside someone's stomach.
1950s: In London, England, Indian physicist Narinder Kapany (1926–) and British physicist Harold Hopkins (1918–1994) managed to send a simple picture down a light pipe made from thousands of glass fibers. After publishing many scientific papers, Kapany earned a reputation as the "father of fiber optics."
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1957: Three American scientists at the University of Michigan, Lawrence Curtiss, Basil Hirschowitz, and Wilbur Peters, successfully used fiber-optic technology to make the world's first gastroscope.
1960s: Chinese-born US physicist Charles Kao (1933–2018) and his colleague George Hockham realized that impure glass was no use for long-range fiber optics. Kao suggested that a fiber-optic cable made from very pure glass would be able to carry telephone signals over much longer distances and was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for this ground-breaking discovery.
1960s: Researchers at the Corning Glass Company made the first fiber-optic cable capable of carrying telephone signals.
~1970: Donald Keck and colleagues at Corning found ways to send signals much further (with less loss) prompting the development of the first low-loss optical fibers.
1977: The first fiber-optic telephone cable was laid between Long Beach and Artesia, California.
1988: The first transatlantic fiber-optic telephone cable, TAT8, was laid between the United States, France, and the UK.
2019: According to TeleGeography, there are currently around 378 fiber-optic submarine cables (carrying communications under the world's oceans), stretching a total of 1.2 million km (0.7 million miles).

Friday 17 April 2020

Optical fibers can be used as sensors


Optical fibers can be used as sensors. Special fibers are used for this, that change how they pass light through when there is a change around the fiber. Sensors like this can be used to detect changes in temperature, pressure, and other things. These sensors are useful because they are small and do not need any electricity at the place where the sensing happens.

A Christmas tree with normal and fiber-optic lights
These fibers are also used to carry light for humans to see. This is sometimes used for decoration, like fiber-optic Christmas trees. Sometimes it is used for lighting, when it is convenient to have the light bulb someplace other than where the light needs to be. This is sometimes used in signs and art for special effects.
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The inside of a clock, viewed through a fiberscope.
A bundle of fibers can be used to make a device called an endoscope or a fiberscope. This is a long thin probe that can be put into a small hole, that will send an image of what is inside through the fiber to a camera. Endoscopes are used by doctors to see inside the human body, and are sometimes used by engineers to see inside tight spaces in machines.

Thursday 16 April 2020

Maximum theoretical bandwidth of fibre-optics

Ignoring hardware at either end and their technological limitations, what is the maximum theoretical bandwidth of fibre optic cables currently in use / being deployed in a FTTH type situations? I understand there's a limit to the number of freqencies or channels we can have in fibres, and each channel would have a theoretic max bandwidth too, I'd imagine?
I'm asking particularly to find out more about the current plan for a National Broadband Network in Australia, which is supposed to roll out fibre optics to almost every premises in the country. I'm interested in finding out how much data we can fit down the fibre before we have to dig it all up and replace it with newer fibres with higher bandwidth or some new medium we haven't started talking about yet. More general answers are interesting too.
Short answer: A good order of magnitude rule of thumb for the maximum possible bandwidth of an optical fibre channel is about 1 petabit per second per optical mode. So a "single" mode fibre (fibre with one bound eigenfield) actually has in theory two such channels, one for each polarisation state of the bound eigenfield.
Short answer: A good order of magnitude rule of thumb for the maximum possible bandwidth of an optical fibre channel is about 1 petabit per second per optical mode. So a "single" mode fibre (fibre with one bound eigenfield) actually has in theory two such channels, one for each polarisation state of the bound eigenfield.
I'll just concentrate on the theoretical capacity of a single, long-haul fibre; see roadrunner66's answer for discussion of the branching in an optical network. The fundamental limits always get down to a question of signal to noise in the measurement (i.e. demodulation by the receiver circuit). The one, fundamentally anavoidable, noise source on a fibre link is quantum shot noise, so I'll concentrate on that. Therefore, what follows will apply to a short fibre: other noise sources (such as Raman, amplified spontaneous emission from in-line optical amplifiers, Rayleigh scattering, Brillouin scattering) tend to become significant roughly in proportion to the fibre length and some power (exponent) of the power borne by the fibre.

Wednesday 15 April 2020

Some dispersion, notably chromatic dispersion


Some dispersion, notably chromatic dispersion, can be removed by a 'dispersion compensator'. This works by using a specially prepared length of fiber that has the opposite dispersion to that induced by the transmission fiber, and this sharpens the pulse so that it can be correctly decoded by the electronics.

Attenuation
Fiber attenuation, which necessitates the use of amplification systems, is caused by a combination of material absorption, Rayleigh scattering, Mie scattering, and connection losses. Although material absorption for pure silica is only around 0.03 dB/km (modern fiber has attenuation around 0.3 dB/km),

impurities in the original optical fibers caused attenuation of about 1000 dB/km. Other forms of attenuation are caused by physical stresses to the fiber, microscopic fluctuations in density, and imperfect splicing techniques.[42]
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Transmission windows
Each effect that contributes to attenuation and dispersion depends on the optical wavelength. There are wavelength bands (or windows) where these effects are weakest, and these are the most favorable for transmission. These windows have been standardized, and the currently defined bands are the following:[43]

Tuesday 14 April 2020

Communications LEDs are most commonly made from Indium gallium

Communications LEDs are most commonly made from Indium gallium arsenide phosphide (InGaAsP) or gallium arsenide (GaAs). Because InGaAsP LEDs operate at a longer wavelength than GaAs LEDs (1.3 micrometers vs. 0.81–0.87 micrometers), their output spectrum, while equivalent in energy is wider in wavelength terms by a factor of about 1.7. The large spectrum width of LEDs is subject to higher fiber dispersion, considerably limiting their bit rate-distance product (a common measure of usefulness). LEDs are suitable primarily for local-area-network applications with bit rates of 10–100 Mbit/s and transmission distances of a few kilometers. LEDs have also been developed that use several quantum wells to emit light at different wavelengths over a broad spectrum and are currently in use for local-area WDM (Wavelength-Division Multiplexing) networks.

Today, LEDs have been largely superseded by VCSEL (Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser) devices, which offer improved speed, power and spectral properties, at a similar cost. Common VCSEL devices couple well to multi mode fiber.

A semiconductor laser emits light through stimulated emission rather than spontaneous emission, which results in high output power (~100 mW) as well as other benefits related to the nature of coherent light. The output of a laser is relatively directional, allowing high coupling efficiency (~50 %) into single-mode fiber. The narrow spectral width also allows for high bit rates since it reduces the effect of chromatic dispersion. Furthermore, semiconductor lasers can be modulated directly at high frequencies because of short recombination time.
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Commonly used classes of semiconductor laser transmitters used in fiber optics include VCSEL (Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser), Fabry–Pérot and DFB (Distributed Feed Back).

Laser diodes are often directly modulated, that is the light output is controlled by a current applied directly to the device. For very high data rates or very long distance links, a laser source may be operated continuous wave, and the light modulated by an external device, an optical modulator, such as an electro-absorption modulator or Mach–Zehnder interferometer. External modulation increases the achievable link distance by eliminating laser chirp, which broadens the linewidth of directly modulated lasers, increasing the chromatic dispersion in the fiber. For very high bandwidth efficiency, coherent modulation can be used to vary the phase of the light in addition to the amplitude, enabling the use of QPSK, QAM, and OFDM.

Monday 13 April 2020

Fiber optic is an important telecommunications infrastructure

Fiber optic is an important telecommunications infrastructure today, especially for business people who want high-speed connections to support the company's business processes. Besides having a high speed and can reach longer distances, optical fiber is also resistant to electromagnetic interference and radio frequency. So that data that moves through this media is guaranteed to be far safer from damage.
At present, there are many middle and upper class companies that are starting to leave the twisted pair cable media by switching to a fiber optic cable that is far more reliable for their network infrastructure. USTP / STP cable replacement with optical fiber is generally done on backbone cables and cables used in server / data center rooms. Therefore, the need for experts capable of installing network installations using fiber optic cable media is increasing day by day.
Fiber Optic Training at the NetCampus Training Center
NetCampus Training Center provides adequate facilities and reliable instructors for those who want to add insight and expertise in computer networks, especially in the design and installation of indoor / outdoor fiber optic media for corporate networks. By joining this fiber optic training program , it is hoped that the participants will be able to understand various types of fiber optic materials, do the design, calculate the work BoQ and install the optical fiber media in the field.
In the last session of the fiber optic training program , participants are entitled to take the FO-301 certification exam. By taking and passing this certification exam, participants are entitled to obtain the NCFT (NetCampus Certified Fiber Optic Technician) degree as a validity of their expertise in designing and installing indoor and outdoor fiber optic media for corporate computer networks.

Friday 10 April 2020

fiberOptics has some disadvantages among themis a very weak physical

form  of optical  fiber ,    so that when there is  pressure from outside yang yang excess can change its characteristics. For avoid  damping  that  big  then fiber joining  must  use  techniqueand high accuracy. (Thomas, 1995).  7. Optical Fiber Damping Damping atain ruga-ruga andang terjaon the fiber optics  caused  by  (Zanger,  1991,  Thomas,1995): • Loss absorption ( absorption loss ), due to     by  the  nature  of  optical materials  which are  not perfectly transparent. RuThis absorption is possible formulated as (Samuel, 1988): luptakeLoss ea−=  (6) where  α  = damping  coefficient per unit   long,  122 2(  without)core core ml n ni−= −   (7) l = light path length , θ      m  =  anglemaximum acceptance.

Journal of ISSN Industrial Engineering Systems: 1411 - 5247  Volume 7, No. 1, January 2006, hall. 87 - 91  • Scattering losses   ( scattering loss ),  causedvarying fiber  density during the process   the making of it. This  variation gives rise  the  refractive index  which is  modeled  as  objek small scattering. • Loss of flexion ( bending loss ), consisting of 2    namely macrobending and   microbe types   nding. Macrobending   occursdue to the  position of the fiber  thattoo songybring it upbecome refraction the light  came out  from the  core.  Whilemicrobending   occurs due to tekmechanical presence or during the withdrawal process kabel.  8. Optical Detector  Optical detectors  work  for  testingh signal  information  optics  into  signal    informationelectrically.
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 The detectors  are  must  meetrequirements as berikut (Singer, 1991, Thomas, 1995): • has high sensitivity  • have a CE response time pat • memiliki noise internal yang small  Characteristic  pentng  others  who  must filled with  stability,accuracy, not  sensitiveon temperature change, and the right price. There are two  types of optical detectors  usedin  the  communication systemfiber 

Thursday 9 April 2020

complete components found in optical fiber

Core
The core is the part called the glass fiber in the optical cable. This section has a diameter between 2 μm - 50 μm. And keep in mind, that the greater the core diameter of the optical fiber, the better the quality of the optical fiber itself.

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Jacket or Cladding
Is a component that protects the core parts of water as well as things that might potentially interfere with telecommunications transmission. Usually the diameter of this jacket ranges from 5 μm - 250 μm. Besides functioning as a core protector, this component also functions to emit external light to the core.

Coat
The coat or usually also called this coating is not made of glass, but rather made of plastic. And this component also serves to protect the cable from interference conditions, such as air humidity so that the cable is not easily damaged. Usually, the coat is given a different color, of course, to make it easier to arrange the core sequence.

Strength Member and Outer Jacket
While the latter component is the main protector. In a sense, wrapping from the core, coat, and jacket. Of course its function is to protect the fiber cable from damage.

Wednesday 8 April 2020

Working Principle of Optical Fiber

The working principle of optical fiber is described with the following explanation (Praja et al, 2013):
Working Principle of Optical Fiber
The initial signal / source in the form of an electrical signal at the transmitter is converted by an electrooptic transducer (Diode / Laser Diode) into light waves.

The light waves are then transmitted through the optical fiber cable to the receiver located at the other end of the optical fiber.
At the receiver / receiver this optical signal is converted by an optoelectronic transducer (Photo Diode) into an electrical signal again.

In the course of optical signals from the transmitter to the receiver there will usually be attenuation of light along the optical cable, cable connections and connectors in the device. Therefore, if the transmission distance is far away, we need one or several repeaters that function to strengthen the light waves that have experienced attenuation along the way.
Bibliography

Saydam, Gouzali. 1997. Basic Principles of Telecommunications Network Technology . Bandung: Space.
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Widodo, TS 1995. Optical Fiber Communication Optoelectronics . Yogyakarta: Andi Offset.
Putu, god. 2009. Optical Fiber in Computer Networks .
Sharma, P., Arora, Pardeshi, S. and Singh, M. 2013. Fiber Optic Communication; An overview . Certified Journal, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 474-479.
Praja, Guntara Fajar, et al. 2013. Calculation Analysis and Measurement of Telkomsel Regional Central Java Fiber Optic Transmission . Bandung: National Institute of Technology.

Tuesday 7 April 2020

Le manque de main d'oeuvre pénalise (encore) le secteur

Reste que la concurrence asiatique n'est pas le seul fait saillant relevé par le Sycabel pour s'expliquer cette baisse de régime du secteur. Le syndicat pointe également du doigt le manque de main d'oeuvre, qui pénalise l'ensemble des acteurs des télécoms et ralentit d'autant le déploiement des réseaux sur le sol français. Alors que tous les voyants sont au vert, que la barre des 4 millions de prises installées a été dépassé au troisième trimestre, l'offre de main d'oeuvre ne suit plus la demande.

"Il existe une tension des ressources en France : malgré les efforts que nous avons fait en anticipant la formation il manque encore 10 à 15 % de techniciens et de ressources pour être à l'aise dans le déploiement de la fibre en France et je ne parle pas que pour Orange mais bien pour l'ensemble du secteur", reconnaissait ainsi Fabienne Dulac, la patronne d'Orange France lors d'une rencontre avec la presse tenue début septembre.

"La  réussite du Plan France THD repose sur la disponibilité, partout dans l’hexagone, d’un nombre suffisant d’installateurs formés et qualifiés aux métiers du déploiement de la Fibre Optique, maitrisant les règles de l’art et les impératifs de la normalisation. Le respect des calendriers mais aussi la garantie de disposer de réseaux déployés de qualité et pérennes en dépendent", rebondit aujourd'hui le Sycabel, pour qui le problème est donc encore loin d'être réglé.
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Rappelons que si la fibre devrait, selon Infranum, s'imposer comme l’un des plus gros pourvoyeurs de nouveaux emplois en France, avec un prévisionnel de 6 400 recrutements, il en faudra entre 12 000 et 16 000 de plus d’ici 2022 alertent en effet les professionnels du secteur. Une gageure alors que le plan France THD ne mobiliserait pour l'heure qu'environ 14 500 emploi équivalent temps plein, pour 40 % dans le déploiement du FttH et 30 % dans le raccordement du réseau, selon les dernières données livrées par l'Observatoire du très haut débit.

Friday 3 April 2020

The objective of an optical reflectometer (OTDR)

The objective of an optical reflectometer (OTDR) is to detect, locate and measure elements anywhere along a fiber optic link. Location information relating to loss and reflective events is generated. Technicians can thus know the characteristics of the fiber at the time of the test. With an OTDR, use leader / end coils to qualify the connectors at each end.

 A leader coil is connected between the tester and the fiber under test, and the end coil is connected to the other end of the fiber optic link. Please note: the optical fiber used in the starter and end coils must be identical to the fiber tested (type, size of the core, etc.).

Finally, proper planning and preparation are basic best practices for testing fiber optics. To make the fiber tests as efficient and precise as possible, you can also clean and test the equipment beforehand, check that it is calibrated, and above all check that it is equipped with the functions that will be useful in the field.

Fiber optics: broadband Internet everywhere, for everyone
Thanks to the development of broadband, we have long forgotten the noise of a modem that connects and the slow connection that accompanied it. With the deployment of fiber optics, the quality of Internet connection is taking a leap forward. What is it and how does it work?
Broadband and very high speed connections have made communications smoother and faster. By transporting data at the speed of light, on a light signal conducted in a glass or plastic fiber thinner than a hair, optical fiber allows a throughput approximately 100 times higher than the ADSL network! This light signal can transport data over very long distances, almost without loss.