Engineers new to fiber
You can follow the procedure, but nobody explained why the numbers are what they are. This starts at the vocabulary and the signal path.
Optical Network Training
FTTx training written by someone who built the hardware.
Nearly twenty years in optical infrastructure and equipment development, and field training delivered in nine countries. These lessons cover what actually decides whether a link comes up: network structure, split loss, power budget, and fault localisation.
20 yrs
Fiber infrastructure and hardware development
9
Countries where training was delivered on site
20+
Hardware products developed and commercialised
17
Core patents
Who it is for
Written for the person who has to decide on site
Teams inheriting a network
You maintain plant somebody else designed. The lessons focus on reading drawings, budgeting loss, and locating faults.
Operators training in-house
Written to be handed to a new hire directly. Each lesson ends with the decisions that matter on site, not a vendor feature list.
Curriculum
Optical Network Training
From FTTx network architecture to field measurement and fault finding. A practical track built so that engineers new to the equipment can understand the principles and make their own judgement calls on site.
- 12 min
Lesson 1
Reading an FTTx Network in One Picture
The full path an optical signal travels, end to end
- 14 min
Lesson 2
PON and Optical Splitters
How 32 homes share a single fiber strand
- 15 min
Lesson 3
Optical Power Budget
The calculation and the margin that keep a link alive
- 16 min
Lesson 4
Finding Faults with an OTDR
Reading the trace and locating the fault
- 10 min
Lesson 5
Single-mode or Multimode
Choosing the right fiber, and what G.652 and G.657 actually mean
- 12 min
Lesson 6
Fusion Splicing
What actually makes a good splice, and what the loss estimate hides
- 11 min
Lesson 7
Connectors and End-face Contamination
The number one field fault, and the habit that prevents it
- 11 min
Lesson 8
Bend Radius, Slack and Enclosure Discipline
Why light leaks at corners and how much slack to leave
- 12 min
Lesson 9
Aerial, Duct and Direct-buried
Route types and how each one fails over a decade
- 12 min
Lesson 10
Insertion Loss Testing
The measurement that decides acceptance, and why the reference method changes the answer
- 13 min
Lesson 11
Reading an OTDR Event Table
Verifying automated results, and the artefacts that fool the software
- 12 min
Lesson 12
Acceptance Testing
What to record at handover and why it matters years later
- 9 min
Lesson 13
The Visual Fault Locator
When a red laser beats an OTDR, and the safety rules that go with it
- 10 min
Lesson 14
Documentation That Survives
Why most fiber records become unusable, and the minimum that works
- 11 min
Lesson 15
A Triage Order for Fiber Faults
A fixed sequence that puts the cheap checks before the expensive ones
- 12 min
Lesson 16
Intermittent Faults
Temperature, water and movement — catching what is gone when you arrive
- 11 min
Lesson 17
The ONU Will Not Register
Separating optical faults from provisioning faults, in order
- 12 min
Lesson 18
Rogue ONU
When one unit breaks the whole PON, and how to find it
- 12 min
Lesson 19
Emergency Restoration
Getting service back at night without creating a future problem
- 12 min
Lesson 20
GPON, XGS-PON and the Wavelength Plan
How generations share one fiber, and what blocks an upgrade
- 12 min
Lesson 21
Coexistence on Existing Plant
Migrating subscribers without a forklift replacement
- 11 min
Lesson 22
Capacity Planning
Split ratio as a business decision, not just an optical one
- 11 min
Lesson 23
In-building Distribution
Why the last thirty metres cost more than the last three kilometres
- 11 min
Lesson 24
What Changes as Rates Rise
Which decisions become irreversible, and what to do now
On-site training
Need this delivered to your field team instead?
Sessions can be built around the plant you actually operate: your split ratios, your enclosures, your measurement records. Tell me what your team keeps getting stuck on.