• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
NCTI

NCTI

Powers frontline performance

  • Content Solutions
    • NCTI Courses
      • All Technical
        • 5G & Wireless
      • Customer Care
      • Leadership
      • General Education
    • Custom Content
    • Learning Delivery
  • Certifications
    • Master Technician
    • Master Representative
    • Emerging Leader
    • Master Dispatcher
    • Telecom Specialist
  • College Program
    • Broadband Technology
    • Customer Care
    • Broadband Leadership
  • Hall of Fame
  • About
    • Our Team
    • News & Announcements
  • Support
    • Contact
    • Ask an Instructor
    • FAQs
    • Resources
  • Login

OTDR & Testing Deep Dive

Delivery: Seminar

Estimated Length: 16 seat hours

Price: $1,395.00

 

Please call to enroll: 866.575.7206

This two-day instructor-led course focuses on field testing and troubleshooting fiber optic spans/links and explains the various types of equipment and tools needed for acceptance testing, documenting performance and finding problems in a fiber physical plant. The emphasis is on understanding proper OTDR settings, overall testing and evaluating results.

  • Click here for current class dates, locations and times; course availability is subject to change. 
  • Courses must be purchased at least two weeks in advance to avoid late fees.
  • Discounts may be available for this course, please contact NCTI Customer Care at 866.575.7206 to learn more and/or to enroll. 

Completion Time:

The estimated completion time for this course is 16 hours (two days).

Benefits:

  • earn BICSI ITS Continuing Education Credits
  • earn a Light Brigade Certificate of Completion

Ideal for:

Installers, OSP technicians, maintenance techs, field supervisors or senior technicians

Outline:

OTDR Theory and Operation: A Deep Dive

Read OTDR signatures, choose the correct pulsewidth to maximize resolution, select and use launch and receive cables or terminators, determine helix factor in order to properly calibrate an OTDR to match sheath length, perform OTDR functions such as testing close-in events, manual cursor placement and bidirectional testing, use the OTDR to troubleshoot and locate breaks, use the OTDR for maintenance and restoration, perform advanced trace analysis and interpretation, complete an acceptance test of optical cables, properly prepare documentation and final test reports and live splice monitoring with OTDR

Cleaning, Inspection and Optical loss Testing Best Practices

Clean and inspect optical connectors on cable assemblies and in bulkheads using various methods, use software to analyze connector endfaces and provide pass/ fail results, identify surface contamination, identify surface flaws, test transmit and receive power, calculate the dynamic range of a system, set up tier 1 testing using fiber appropriate reference methods, perform dual wavelength bidirectional optical loss testing, create overfilled and controlled launch conditions for multimode fiber using LEDs and VCSELs, identify live fibers and use tone identification, create a system loss budget and properly prepare documentation and final test reports

Footer

Follow Us on Social Media!

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Can’t Find It?

Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Post Type Selectors

 

©2023 Jones/NCTI®, Inc.
All rights reserved.

Terms of Use | Privacy Policy

 

6855 South Havana Street, Suite 300,
Centennial, CO 80112 USA