Ripley Tools has introduced its ODM brand OTDR 800, its newest handheld, touchscreen OTDR, providing test technicians and contractors with an all-in-one solution for testing optical reflection and loss in fiber networks.
Per the company, as one of the smallest and lightest OTDRs on the market weighing under 1.5 lbs, the OTDR 800 is portable and has a unique protective rubberized shell. The unit's compact yet rugged design makes it ideal for both linemen working underground or in bucket trucks, or for data center technicians with limited space.
As noted by Ripley Tools:
A staple for telecommunication technicians, OTDRs are critical in determining network effectiveness by identifying high-loss points, tracing the fiber length and returning graphical representations of the optical link. The OTDR 800 allows a technician to quickly select from a wide variety of wavelength configurations and easily view the test results in either a schematic view, trace view or event table with pass/fail analysis for each reflective event. Individual events can be inspected manually using the event selection feature or automatically with the device's built-in smart pass/fail analysis function. After testing, results are easily transferred to an Android smartphone or tablet with Bluetooth, or a Windows device by USB with the included ODM brand OpTrace software.
"The OTDR market is expanding to support field deployment of fiber-to-the-home broadband networks, the migration towards Remote PHY cable television architectures, new optical fiber needed to interconnect 5G cell sites, and migration to 100G or 400G transmission," commented Dr. John Jutila, CEO of Ripley Tools. "The ODM OTDR 800 is perfectly positioned to help remote field technicians quickly assess fiber links in challenging environments to support these applications."
The OTDR 800 can be kitted with other Ripley products, such as the company's ODM brand fiber inspection scopes and fiber cleaning solutions, or its Miller optical fiber strippers and cable preparation tools. Ripley Tools offers a wide variety of custom kits that can be tailored to specific field crew requirements.
Visit www.ripley-tools.com/odm for more information.
