Even if your project specification or customer doesn’t require you to test a newly installed fiber cable plant, you could be putting yourself and your customer at risk if you don’t. Certification testing to industry standards ensures that a cable plant will support your customers’ applications and prevent costly callbacks. Test results for every fiber link are invalua …
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Things can go wrong even when a fiber optic network is installed properly without exceeding loss budgets, cabling bend radius, or pull tension. Problems that creep up in an existing fiber optic network can be related to the cabling and connectivity infrastructure, such as contaminated connector end faces or damaged cable. However, before going down the rabbit hole of hiri …
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