This joint white paper prepared by Legrand | Ortronics and Fluke Networks reviews best practices for the technician performing field tests on installed optical fiber cabling.  As traffic over networks expands and expectations of reliability increase, testing optical fiber cabling after installation is more important than ever before to assure the end user that the installation was done properly and that the cabling will support Local Area Networks (LAN) into the future.

This joint white paper prepared by Legrand | Ortronics and Fluke Networks reviews best practices for the technician performing field tests on installed optical fiber cabling.  As traffic over networks expands and expectations of reliability increase, testing optical fiber cabling after installation is more important than ever before to assure the end user that the installation was done properly and that the cabling will support Local Area Networks (LAN) into the future

Extended (Tier 2) fiber certification helps characterize individual events that are invisible when conducting only loss/length (Tier 1) testing.  Only with a complete fiber certification will installers have the most complete picture of the fiber installation and network owners have proof of a quality installation.

Although currently considered a complementary test by industry standards, it has long been considered a best practice by fiber experts.

Learn more about this best practice with this quick-read white paper.

For centuries, optics have been inspected and cleaned to ensure the proper passage of light. While inspection and cleaning fiber connectors is not new, it is growing in importance as links with increasingly higher data rates are driving decreasingly small loss budgets.

Most people have their own approaches for cleaning end-faces.  However, because dirty or damaged end-faces are the top causes behind fiber failure, it’s critical to follow a best practice routine for cleaning and inspection. Learn how with this quick-read white paper.

By conducting loss/length certification of the fiber cabling infrastructure, you are ensuring that it can support the associated bandwidth demand and network applications accord­ing to prescribed specifications.

Not only do industry standards require loss-length fiber certification for nearly all fiber links today, but it is also a best practice that enables your network applications to run at peak performance.

Learn more about this best practice with this quick-read white paper. 

The latest multimode launch condition standard is known as Encircled Flux and helps improve link-loss consistency for high-speed networks where it is critical to minimize measurement variability. Learn more about Encircled Flux by reading this application note.

This comprehensive Optical Fiber Test and Troubleshooting Guide provides network engineers, technicians, and fiber cable installers with practical advice on how to troubleshoot optical fiber cabling for data communication. Learn about fiber cabling performance requirements, field testing, certification, and troubleshooting techniques.

See how the DTX-1800 CableAnalyzer combined with the 10Gig kit allowed technicians to quickly complete one of largest Cat 6A installations in the world.

This paper identifies the specific benefits afforded by cable certification and how much it pays back to the network owner.