FTTH Installation and Termination

Course Overview

The leading FTTH technology being deployed today is Passive Optical Network technology or (PON) in short. FTTH is widely recognized as the optimal solution for providing broadband to the community. This course is designed to provide both the knowledge base and required practical skills on how to lay, terminate, and install FTTH network components to the required level of quality and service provisioning.

Course Schedule

Request Group Training

Target Audience

FTTH network supervisors, installers and maintenance technicians

Course Prerequisites

Basic knowledge in telecommunication networks

Expected Accomplishments

Gain knowledge in Gigabit Passive Optical Network architecture and its components
Know the occupational safety procedures
Know how to survey, plan and estimate the FTTH network and its components.
Know how to calculate link budget and network losses.
Able to lay, draw and blow fiber cables.
Ability to splice and arrange fibers into closures
Able to install network components, arrange and terminate fiber cables.
Able to fix FDHs, ODFs and other related equipments.
Be able to use FTTH/GPON test equipments.
Will conduct and record pre & post installation tests.

Course Outline

Overview

Introduction to FTTx

Other FTTx networks

FTTH network

The advantages & limitations of FTTH

Standards

Health & safety

Personal safety

Handling of equipments

Electrical considerations

Installation standards and procedures

Mechanical assembly

Trunking, conduits and ducting techniques

Cabling procedures

Termination procedures

Fibre optics

Fibre technology

Fibre optic cables

Drop fibres

Fiber optic cable laying And pulling techniques

Splicing and termination techniques

Joint closures and drop boxes

Diversity and non diversity networks

Network terminals

OLT

ONT

Passive splitters

Uni-racks

ODFs, FDH

Extended ODF

Pre-wired FDH

OSP installation

Surveying cable routes

Estimating material requirements

Fiber cables pulling, drawing and blowing

Structure cabling

Standards

CAT5e ,CAT6 and CAT7 cables

Inter and intra building backbones

RJ11, RJ45 terminations

Customer premises installation

ONT/ONU installation

Fixing routers and wireless routers

Fixing IADs and POTS

Fixing STB

Testing and recording

Pre-testing optical network

Power loss

Power budgeting

Link characterization

Post Test