How To Test A Network With A Fiber Optic Tester.

When installing a network, after all the cables are hooked up and have been terminated, you have to make sure that they are tested with a fiber optic tester to make sure everything works. You will need to test for continuity which is the continuous flow of the transmission, the end to end loss which is the loss of the transmission due to the fiber optic cable, the splices, or the connectors.

You will need to know where all of the splices were done at in the cable so that you can verify that each on is working.

You want to make sure that you have all the equipment that is required for the testing. You will need the fiber optic tester, test cables that match the cables in the testing, a fiber tracer, cleaning materials, and an OTDR.

During this testing you need to make sure that you know how to use your equipment, especially the fiber optic tester. And, you must also know what network you are testing.

The fiber optic tester is many units in one and it takes measurements across two test points. The fiber optic tester is a processing unit that locates faults in the cable by analyzing the measurements. The fiber optic tester is a switching unit that connects termination points of an electrical circuit to the test points in a sequence that is controlled by the processing unit and the fiber optic tester is a fiber unit that tests the actual fiber optical circuit.

It can also include an electrical harness that connects the electrical circuit to the switching unit or the optical circuit to the fiber unit. The processing unit is capable of accurately detecting faults within the circuits.

The importance of testing fiber optic cable with a fiber optic tester is because this cable is what makes things work. The cable should be checked on the role before it is even taken off to check for any damages that might have taken place during the shipment of the cable to its destination. The cable is filled with many optic fibers and if a side of the cable is frayed and cut a few of these fibers, there will be a power loss which will affect the equipment that is trying to work.

The Fiber optic tester will find this power loss in order to save the installer a lot of time from running a line that has been damaged and then having to splice out the bad part to fix it. This can be time consuming.