These units describes the skills and knowledge required to Inspect, clean, splice and terminate optical fibre cable within an optical telecommunications transmission environment for new installations or upgrades of an optical backbone or access network, to achieve greater bandwidth and capacity required by emerging technology convergence for next generation networks (NGNs).
It applies to technical staff who splice and terminate optical fibre cable for telecommunications projects for commercial or industrial fibre to the premises (FTTP) non-mechanical splicing installations.
This Fibre Testing course is for those looking to obtain skills and knowledge 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.
This Fibre Testing course is for those looking to obtain skills and knowledge required to test and fault find Fibre Optic network across the different architectures (TFN, DFN and LFN / MT-LFN).
Learning Methods
Duration: Upto 1.5 Days
Learning Outcomes
After successfully completing this course, you will be able to
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- Inspect fibre connectors using inspection scopes
- Clean connectors using approved methods
- Handle optical fibre cable and connectors to prevent damage
- Complete patching according to patching schedule and under the direction of the relevant authority
- Splice, terminate and test optical fibre cable, applying safety precautions when working with laser-based systems and ensuring that required enterprise certification is first obtained if working with live fibre
- Splice at least 12 fibres and house in industry recognised enclosures and underground closures according to manufacturer instructions
- Install a pigtail that is fusion spliced to cable fibre
- Inspect and clean optical connectors
- Complete relevant documentation according to manufacturer and design requirements
- Provide customer report documenting installation and test results, according to industry standards
- Comply with all related work health and safety (WHS) requirements and work practices.
- Set up and prepare to work with live fibre
- Connect splitter input fibre to feeder cable
- Perform live WDM commission testing of ODN installation used in FTTx network
- Prepare to use optical measuring instruments
- Conduct optical measurements
On successful completion, the student can gain NBN enable accreditation for skill 13 and Skill 9
ICTCBL330 – Splice and terminate optical fibre cable for telecommunications projects,
ICTTEN318 – Inspect, clean and handle optical fibre cable and connectors
ICTWHS204 – Follow work health and safety and environmental policy and procedures,
ICTBWN307 – Use optical measuring instruments,
ICTBWN308 – Work safely on live optical fibre installations
