Competitive market pressures demand that service providers continuously upgrade and maintain their networks to ensure the delivery of higher-speed, higher-quality applications and services to customers.
The advent of triple play and high speed systems raises the level of testing, accuracy, and precision required on the fiber infrastructure to support these new services. JDSU reduces the complexity around these new network architectures and this book makes them easier to test.
Following on from the earlier Fiber Optic Guide booklet (with over 25,000 copies printed worldwide), this new JDSU "Reference Guide to Fiber Optic Testing" is aimed at fiber optic installers, project managers, telecom technicians and engineers that need to understand, apply, and correctly measure and record the performance of fiber infrastructures.
This first volume reviews the basics in systems, standards, and network architectures and focuses on how to make the most of Optical Time Domain Reflectometers (OTDRs) to install, turn-up, and maintain fiber optic networks. The book covers:

• Basic system and fiber infrastructure design
• Basic fiber infrastructure testing
• Basic OTDR testing
• Advanced OTDR testing