Fiber Characterization: What Is Needed

It is essential that companies assess fiber quality for high-speed transmission, especially when transmitting at 10G, 40G/100G or higher speeds. We will discuss verifying the integrity and capacity of your fiber network. We will discuss fiber parameter measurements like optical loss, chromatic and polarization dispersion, , and more. We will delve into questions like can your fiber cable support DWDM, 10G or 100G traffic, how do you determine fault locations, and how does the condition and type of fiber affect characterization?

SRP will provide the utility perspective by discussing fiber characterization testing (CD, PMD, ORL) and how most of the fiber characterization test sets that are on the market do this fairly automatically and produce reports and how well each utility “knows” their network. SRP will also provide lessons learned on seeing a span with CD or PMD issues and knowing that they may have some bad splice cases or older panels in the spans, so they would replace them and it would clean up the issues.