Outside
Plant Fiber Optics
Lesson 10: OSP Fiber Optic Installation
Objectives: From this lesson you should learn:
What is involved in an OSP fiber optic installation
The role of the contractor and installer
How to prepare for the installation
What is involved in the installation process
How to verify the quality of the installation
Safety for fiber optic installations
Your final lesson covers OSP fiber optic construction and
installation. After the process of designing fiber optic
networks is completed, the next step is to build and
install the cable plant. What do we mean by the
“installation process?” Assuming the design is completed,
we’re looking at the process of construction then
physically installing, splicing and terminating cables,
installing all hardware and completing the network,
turning the design into an operating system.
This is a more complex process than it may seem at
first. This lesson covers preparing for the
installation, requirements for training and safety and
then the actual construction and installation process. We
also add in the construction phase, preparing for the
cable installation and actually installing aerial,
underground or buried cables.
Student Assignment:
Watch the video, read the references and take the quizzes
(Test Your Comprehension)
FOA YouTube Videos
FOA
Lecture 2: Safety When Working With Fiber Optics
(Repeat from lesson 1)
FOA
Lecture 8: Fiber Optic Installation
FOA
Lecture 33: Cabling Project Management
FOA
Lecture 39: Maintaining Fiber Optic Networks
Online FOA Reference:
Fiber
Optic Installation
Planning
the Installation
Installing
Cable - General Guidelines
Safety
Rules for Fiber Optic Installation
Digging
Safely
FOA Tech Bulletin: Installing
Fiber Optic Cable Plants (PDF 0.2 MB)
OSP Cable Construction.
Laying,
Placing or Pulling OSP Cable-Overview
Underground
Cable Construction.
Underground
Cable Installation.
Aerial
Cable Installation.
Special methods
How
To "Figure 8" Cable For Intermediate Pulls
Air-Blown
Fiber
Prefab
Cabling Systems
Aerial
FTTH drops
Microtrenching
OPGW
(Optical power ground wire) Preparation
Book Chapter:
FOA
Reference Guide to Outside Plant Fiber Optics,
Chapter 10
Test Your Knowledge:
Online
Quiz
Take the Quiz at the end of Chapter 7 and check
your answers
Extra Credit Reading
Getting
Training
Installation
Checklist - step by step installation planning
The
Role of the Contractor
Tools
and Equipment
Cleaning
Fiber Optic Connections
Receiving
cable and components onsite
Installing
a Swivel Pulling Eye on Cable
How
To "Figure 8" Cable For Intermediate Pulls
Premises
Site Preparation
Patchcords
– selection, testing, management
You're finished - congratulations!
Get
a "Certificate of Completion" When You Complete
This Course
After you complete the Fiber U Basic Fiber Optics
online self-study course, you can now take an online
exam and, when you pass the exam, get a "Certificate
of Completion" for this course. You should complete
all lessons including taking the quiz ("Test Your
Comprehension") at the end of every lesson. When you
think you are prepared, you can take an online exam
for a nominal fee ($20) which will give you a
"Certificate of Completion" for this course.
Read
more about the Fiber U Certificate
of Completion program including detail
directions on taking the exam.
Go
here to take the Fiber U OSP Certificate of
Completion Exam
Please
note: receiving this Fiber U Certificate
of Completion does not include FOA
certification or membership but it does
become documentation of your knowledge of
fiber optics and should be part of your
portfolio of documented knowledge, other
training and work experience that can
qualify you to apply for FOA direct CFOT
certification through the FOA "Work to
Cert" program.
For more information on the FOA and its
certification programs, go to the FOA
page on certification.
For information on the FOA "Work to Cert"
direct certification program for those
with industry experience, go
here.
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