Since 1987, The Light Brigade has trained more than 60,000 tech- nicians, installers, engineers, and designers from a wide variety of industries: telephony, broadband, utilities, media and broadcast, industrial, manufacturing, mining, government, aerospace, and the military. Our professional instructors and technicians have a variety of real workd practical experience in all aspects of fibre optics. With ex- perience in applications such as communications, signaling, secu rity, and network control, our instructors provide valuable insight into the design, installation, and operation of state-of-the-art fibre optic systems.
Hands-on Training Extensive hands-on training sessions help our attendees to learn fibre optics by doing rather than watchi Attendees spend Tech- nology-based. In our training classes, you receive an objective viewpoint, not a sales pitch. We teach techniques that are applicable to any prod uct, and we select the best available equipment and supplies from many different manufacturers. Continuing Support To ensure continued long-term support, we offer technical assis tance to our class attendees. If you have a question or need guid- ance after the class is over, our staff is there to help. All alumni of our three- and four-day classes are also entitled to a 25% discount on ackditional,
Light Brigade training courses and DVDs.
Theory and Applications Review
- Working with lasers
- Visual safety using fiber optic sources
- Working with optical fibers
- Chemicals
- Basic fiber optic terminology
- FTTx optical fiber transmission systems
- Typical transmission rat
- Fiber optic symbols
- Why use fiber optics?
- Brief history of fiber optics
- Fiber optic standards
- Basic FTTx terminology
- Passive optical networks (PON)
- Fiber to the home
- Fiber to the business/building
- POLAN
- Fiber to the curb
- IP video delivery
- Active Ethernet
- TDM and TDMA
- Broadband PON (B-PON)
- Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)
- Ethernet PON
- Gigabit PON (G-PON)
- 10G-PON
- 10 Gigabit EPON
- RF video overlay
- Radio frequency over glass
- WDM-PON
- Network topologies
- Physical topologies
- Point-to-point topology
- Fiber to the business/building
- Star topology
- Reach extender
- Route redundancy
- Ring topology
- Mesh topology
- Bus topology
- ODN capabilities
- Outside plant cable management
- Drop terminators
- Cable and fiber management
- Attenuation
- Fresnel reflection
- Refraction
- Numerical aperture
- Intrinsic and extrinsic losses
- The electromagnetic spectrum
- Lightwave transmission
- Mode field diamete
- Dispersion (pulse spreading)
- FTTx fiber optic specifications
- Single-mode optical fiber types
- Fiber optic color coding
- Ribbon fibers
- Optical cable for FTTx
- Outside plant cables
- High fiber count cables
- Aerial fiber optic cables
- Indoor/outdoor cables
- Plenum and riser cables
- Low smoke zero halogen
- Distribution cables
- Fiber optic cable cordage
- Fiber and buffer color codes
- Extrinsic splice and connection attenuation
- Fiber optic connector polishes
- Common FTTx connectors
- Small form factor LC connectors
- Multifiber connectors
- Field terminable FTTH connectors
- Hardened connectors
- Connector inspection and cleaning
- Terminators and attenuators
- Single-mode field connectorization issues
- Drop cable splicing
- Good splice requirements
- Fiber cleaving
- Fusion, ribbon, and pigtail splicing
- Splice protection
- Mechanical splices
- Panels, closures and cabinets
- Fiber optic interconnect hardware
- Splice tray recommendations
- FTTx OSP cable management products
- Cabinets for active Ethernet
- Network access points
- Slack storage
- Vaults and handholes
- Indoor slack storage methods
- Underground cable storage
- Aerial cable storage products
- Hardened connector slack storage
- Fiber transition to the network
- Planar lightwave circuits
- Fused biconical taper splitters
- Splitter challenges and scenarios
- Tap splitters
- WDMs and PON systems
- Optical bands and windows
- Wavelength allocations
- Multiplexing and demultiplexing
- Filters and gratings
- Types of WDMs
- PON configurations for WDM
- RF video overlay
- Diplexers, triplexers, and quadplexers
- Coarse, dense, and wide WDM
- Fiber optic transmitters
- Distributed feedback lasers
- Fabry-Perot lasers
- Fiber optic receivers and photo diodes
- Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers
- Reflection issues
- Optical return loss and the ODN
- Optical line terminals
- ONT, NT and ONU
- UPS and battery backup systemss
- Designing FTTx systems
- Writing OSP specifications
- Loss budgets for FTTx networks
- Safety margins
- “Not to exceed” charts for single-mode
- Active Ethernet specifications
- PON loss budgets
- G-PON specifications
- G-PON power levels
- Ethernet specifications
- RFoG and tapered loss budgets
- FTTx cable installation
- Cable handling
- Standards and regulations
- Underground installation techniques
- Direct buried
- Conduit and duct installation
- Cable pulling methods
- Tension monitoring
- High air speed blown
- Air blown fiber
- Aerial installation techniques
- Mid-span (express) entries
- Cable installation products
- FTTB installation techniques
- MDUs and MTUs
- FTTB design goals
- Telecommunications rooms
- Get cabling to each user
- Termination techniques
- Aesthetics
- Testing active Ethernet
- Testing PON systems
- Initial installation testing
- Testing equipment for different scenarios
- “Not to exceed” values
- OTDR testing
- Dynamic range
- Deadzone
- OTDR signatures
- Key points to understanding IOR
- Post-installation testing with the OTDR
- Testing drop cables
- Reflection testing
- Measuring reflectance with a deadzone box
- Optical loss testing
- Insertion loss method
- Visual laser testing requirements
- Visual inspection
- Identify, locate, and resolve
- Typical causes of failure
- System related problems
- Eye diagrams
- Types of fiber optic damages
- Typical cable system faults
- Equipment used in the restoration role
- Emergency restoration kit requirements
- Aerial restoration
- Outside plant restorations
- The need for slack cable
- Effective maintenance postures
- Post-restoration recommendations
- Fiber optic safety concerns
- Visual safety using fiber optic sources
- Wavelength of the eye
- Laser classifications
- Working with lasers and optical fibers
- Personal protective equipment
- Chemicals
- Material safety data sheets (MSDS)
- Work area safety
- Installation practices
- Cable preparation
- Mid-entry practices
- Closure preparation
- Panel dressing
- Splitter installation
- Splice tray fiber routing
- Strip and cleave processes
- Inline and pigtail splicing
- FTTx splicing
- Fixed V-groove splicers
- Core alignment splicers
- OTDR use in FTTx installations
- FTTx OTDR signatures
- Measuring reflectance
- Testing splitters
- FTTx test equipment
- Testing OLT/ONT power levels
- Test points in FTTx installations
- Upstream/downstream testing
- Troubleshooting
- FTTx documentation
