A one-hour online seminar, available for on-demand viewing, addresses several aspects of fiber-optic cabling installation, management and maintenance. Hosted by Cabling Installation and Maintenance, the seminar is titled “Fiber-Optic Cabling Technologies for Installation and Management.” Its technical presentations are delivered by Robert Yarbrough, market development manager for datacom with HellermannTyton; Robert Reid, senior product development manager with Panduit’s network connectivity group; and Edward Forrest, zone manager for the FOCCUS product group of ITW Chemtronics.
Yarbrough’s presentation explains the considerations to make when deciding whether to implement a preterminated or field-terminated fiber-optic cabling infrastructure. He discusses the physical-environment considerations users should make, as well as factors including system performance, lifespan, and expansion capabilities.
Reid discusses polarity management within parallel-optic (MPO-connector-based) fiber systems. His presentation includes technical detail on the options for managing polarity in these systems, as well as the opportunities that exist for, and advantages of, changing connector gender (male-to-female or vice versa) in the field. He describes the particular benefit this gender-change capability can have when testing installed parallel-optic systems.
Forrest discusses the perils and practicalities of fiber-optic endface cleaning. His presentation includes information on ITW Chemtronics’ recommended process for fiber cleaning—a two-step process called the CombinationCleaning Technique. Part of Forrest’s presentation explains that fiber contaminants are three-dimensional, yet almost every method of measuring such contamination considers only two dimensions (length and width but not height/depth - depicted in image below).
