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Bidirectional OTDR Testing: Multimode VS. Singlemode Fibers

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Bidirectional OTDR Testing: Multimode VS. Singlemode Fibers

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  • Author: Caroline Hamel
As competition heats up among Europe’s new and established telecommunications companies, network reliability is emerging as the vital factor in the battle to secure a long-term customer base. Quite simply, with the era of zero-downtime networks fast approaching, carriers can no longer tolerate service outages on cables, or even single fibers, designed to transport numerous gigabit-per-second optical channels. Once an optical cable has been installed, network managers need to be certain that each separate fiber span matches or exceeds the carrier’s specifications. The optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) remains the only instrument available to characterize fibers at the required level of detail, generating distance versus attenuation data, as well as insertion loss measurements for all splices, defects, kinks, or breaks.

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