by ELIZABETH GOLDSMITH | May 31, 2019
Many OTDRs have only one plug connector, which can make plugging in your MPO confusing. Luckily, there are different ways to connect your OTDR to the MPO connector. If you want to see the MPO connector, you’re going to need a launch fiber. That launch fiber is...
by ELIZABETH GOLDSMITH | Jan 17, 2019
Yes, there are several differences. First, the PON power meter is a pass through device which measures the power of the downstream signal and the power of the upstream signal. A regular power meter is a single ended detector, so you can measure the downstream power,...
by ELIZABETH GOLDSMITH | Jan 17, 2019
The leading cause of network failures is dirty connections. Almost all the time, the dirt is completely invisible to the naked eye, but since the diameter of a fiber core is so small (50 microns for multimode fiber and only 8 microns for singlemode fiber) it...
by ELIZABETH GOLDSMITH | Jan 17, 2019
Since the POL is an enterprise adaptation of the GPON used in Fiber-to-the-Home applications, you can use the same tools and expertise that were developed for GPON.The recommended testing protocols for a passive optical LAN deployment are: Inspecting the connector...
