Fiber Contamination, Cleaning and Inspection. Introduction
Despite industry best practice of inspecting and cleaning fiber optic endfaces, contaminated connections remain the number one cause of fiber related problemsand test failures in data centers, campus and other enterprise or telecom networking environments. As the industry moves to higher data speeds, more stringent loss budgets and new multi-fiber connectors, proactively inspecting and cleaning fiber endfaces ismore important than ever to ensure network uptime, performance and equipment reliability.
