When your computer doesn’t connect to the Internet, when the equipment in your computer room suddenly doesn’t work. You must be very anxious, after repeated inspection found that a branch of the cable there is a problem.
With the development of optical fiber communication, fiber optic cable has been laid. After lay down, the aging, external damage, rain erosion, the construction and maintenance of non-standard, and other aspects may cause fiber optic cable fault. When the cable are broken, how to trouble shoot effectively , reduce the repair time, accurate and fast tracking the location of the fault point is the key point.
Fiber optic cable once upon a time was regarded as a technology used in only high-performance areas, however, it’s now seen in many types of environments and networks. If you know about good old copper cable, then you will soon realize a fiber optic cable is a totally different ball game. The installation of fiber optic cable is not only different but fault-finding, or troubleshooting is a different beast altogether. Unlike copper cable, fiber optic cables are very fragile. The delicate nature of the cable makes it prone to possible problems. We will mention the common problems that occur with fiber optic cables and how they may be repaired.
When the cable is broken, the OTDR can only measure the distance from the original to the fault point. The exactly fault point is often difficult to be found. Constructors often need to find
and confirm the fault point repeatedly, that spend a huge amount of time and energy, even caused second accidents by non-standard operation. If the data is lacking or not correct, the repair work will become a nightmare for the constructors. The pecuniary loss caused by the low efficiency repair , OTDR can do nothing about it.
Optical Cable Fault Identifier (OCFI) is The latest instrument of optical cable maintenance, repair equipment developed by tarluz, it can identify the physical cable fault location easily. This is an essential tool for fiber optic cable repair!
