Delivery: Online
Estimated Length: 4 seat hours
Price: $395
Course Type:Fiber-only
Advance your skills in fiber-optic network deployment with the NCTI® Fiber-Optic Maintenance II: Outside Plant Activation course. This course focuses on activating, testing, and troubleshooting live fiber-optic networks in the outside plant (OSP). Master the critical phase of OSP activation, ensuring networks meet performance standards for reliable and efficient data transmission.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Gain expertise in optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) configuration, operation, and trace interpretation.
- Learn industry standards for acceptance testing, splice evaluation, and advanced troubleshooting techniques.
- Adjust OTDR settings to match network specifications and analyze traces to identify issues like poor splices and connector problems.
- Verify fiber connections and ensure networks meet performance specifications through documentation and testing.
Who Should Enroll:
Ideal for fiber-optic technicians, field engineers, and network maintenance personnel with foundational knowledge of outside plant systems. This course is also perfect for those preparing for certification or transitioning into roles involving OTDR use, fiber acceptance testing, and live network diagnostics.
Delivery Options:
The course is delivered online. Lesson and final exams are taken online.
Completion Time:
The estimated completion time for this course is 4 hours. The maximum allotted time is four months from enrollment.
Prerequesite Courses
Fiber-Optic Maintenance I: Outside Plant
Next Course Recommendation:
Fiber-Optic Maintenance III: Restoration
Course Benefits
- receive an industry-recognized NCTI certificate of graduation
Upon completing this course, students will be able to:
- Identify best practices for safely handling optical fibers and OTDRs, including proper connector cleaning techniques.
- Describe OTDR connection methods and explain the role of TIA standards in ensuring accurate fiber-optic measurements.
- Identify and describe the key areas of OTDR configuration, including refractive index, wavelength, pulse width, range, dead zones, and event settings.
- Explain how to analyze OTDR traces to filter out noise and accurately measure signal loss.
- Explain how to use an OTDR for acceptance testing, including measuring splice loss, connector loss, reflectance, and optical return loss.
- Describe how OTDRs capture and store trace data for fibers, splices, and spans.
- Identify and explain common OTDR trace signatures, including reflective, nonreflective, gain, roll-off, and ghost signatures, and their causes.
- Describe how fiber-optic splitters function and how they appear on OTDR traces.
- Describe standard OTDR configuration settings and explain how to perform fiber acceptance testing, including identifying and documenting splices.
- Explain when and how to test splices and take corrective actions using OTDR results.
Course Outline:
Preparing OTDR Measurements
Preliminary OTDR procedures, OTDR programming, and OTDR tests
Performing OTDR Measurements
OTDR signatures, OTDR testing, and OTDR span measurements