Fibre Testing – Skill 12

Course Overview

Fibre testing refers to the certification, troubleshooting, inspection, and splicing test methods applied to fibre optic cabling.

This course is designed for individuals who require the skills and knowledge required to set up and use hand-held optical communications instruments to perform installations, upgrades and fault-finding on optical equipment and those who are required to work safely on a live optical fibre installation to test and commission a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) system and to connect a splitter for fibre to the x (FTTx) deployment.

It applies to telecommunications lines workers who only use hand-held optical measuring instruments and those who engage in safe work practices as members of a team using emerging technologies to deliver very high-speed broadband capacity through the access network for the national broadband network (NBN) initiative.

Upon completion of this course, participants will obtain a statement of attainment.

After successfully completing this course, you will be able to:

• comply with all job requirements and work health and safety (WHS) regulations, standards and work practices
• confirm calibration within appropriate dates of instruments
• operate the following equipment:
• hand-held optical power meter
• hand-held optical source
• handheld optical fibre identifier (OFI-FTTx)
• active optical network termination (ONT) detector
• optical loss test set (OLTS)
• passive optical network (PON) meter
• perform the following optical measurements:
• detect the presence of an active ONT
• determine absolute optical power (in dBm)
• determine insertion loss (in dB)
• determine relative optical power level (in dB).

Note:

ICTWHS204 Follow Work Health and Safety and ICTBWN307 Use optical measuring instruments is a prerequisite unit of ICTBWN308 Work safely on live optical fibre installations

The sequence of these units will not be altered

To increase your skill development, Milcom has the following combined package that allows participants to complete the following specialisations, for a special discount price.

• Combined Fibre Hygiene (Skill 9) & Fibre Testing (Skill 12)
• Combined Fibre Hygiene (Skill 9) & Fibre Splicing (Skill 13)
• Combined Fibre Testing (Skill 12) & Fibre Splicing (Skill 13)
• Combined Fibre Hygiene (Skill 9) & Fibre Testing (Skill 12) & Fibre Splicing (Skill 13)

Career Outcomes

This qualification may lead to the following career opportunities.

• NBN Technician
• Fibre Testing Specialist

Entry Requirements

• Nil