Fibre Optics

City College Plymouth

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In Plymouth

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    Plymouth

About the course

Fibre optic links are becoming an increasingly common part of cabling infrastructures. Installers have to be competent when specifying, terminating, testing and installing fibre optics. This fibre optics course will provide you with the hands-on practical experience and theoretical knowledge needed to successfully terminate fibres on site.

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Location

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Plymouth (Devon)
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Kings Road, PL1 5QG

Start date

On request

About this course

Entry requirements

This course requires no prior knowledge or experience. Inexperienced students will leave with adequate knowledge, confidence and practical experience for specification and successful installation of fibre optic links. Those new to fibre optic cabling and those already experienced in practical installation will improve their formal knowledge of the theory behind the operation of fibre and the choices available in selection of fibre and termination methods.

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Subjects

  • Testing
  • Fibre Optics
  • Fibre Optic

Course programme

What you'll learn

The fibre optics course aims to offer a balanced mix of theory and practice relating to the use of fibre optic cabling within the structured cabling system standards. The course is run by a fully qualified fibre optics technician who is constantly updated in line with the rapidly changing standards, technologies and terminologies.

The course covers the following areas:

  • fibre cable construction and selection
  • fibre connectors
  • connectors and calculation of total loss
  • fibre cable installation considerations
  • fibre termination – health and safety considerations
  • review of termination methods with summary
  • fibre preparation for termination
  • practical termination exercises
  • glue and polish methods
  • fusion splicing
  • light source testing/DB loss.

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