Cabling & Fibre Optics
FTTH Design & Installation
Bring fibre to homes and businesses.
3 daysIntermediate5 modules
About this course
Bring fibre to homes and businesses. You will learn how passive optical networks are designed, plan splitter levels and power budgets, and practise the installation work in the field: feeder and drop cables, closures, distribution points and the connection inside the customer's premises.
What you'll learn
- Describe PON architecture and its components.
- Plan splitter levels and an optical power budget.
- Install feeder, distribution and drop cables.
- Prepare closures and distribution points.
- Complete and test a customer connection.
Curriculum
5 modules
- Point-to-point and PON
- OLT, splitters and ONT
- GPON and XGS-PON at a glance
- Splitter levels and ratios
- Power budgets
- Route and survey basics
- Ducts, aerial and direct burial
- Closures and distribution points
- Drop cables
- Entry and termination
- ONT installation
- Activation and testing
- Workmanship standards
- Safety on site
- Records and handover
Who it's for
Installers, technicians, site supervisors and planners working on fibre access networks.
Before you start
- Fibre Optic Fundamentals or equivalent experience
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