A study of network owners, conducted by Gilmore Research Group, indicated that the need for greater bandwidth, greater storage demands, and transition to higher network speeds are the top three growth drivers for their fiber networks. The quality of the fiber cabling installed to meet these demands is increasingly important. The same study revealed that more than 25% of respondents frequently experience problems with their fiber networks. And more than 62% of respondents have not yet upgraded to 10 Gigabit. Just like copper cabling, the best way to avoid latent problems is with fiber is by proper certification. New fiber test solutions that snap onto copper cable testers have made certification per industry standards more cost effective and easier. This white paper will explain how contractors and consultant/designers – in addition to network owners – can benefit from performing complete fiber certification.
The Fiber Best Practice Series was designed by Fluke Networks to educate about important optical fiber best practices, including: • Fiber inspection and cleaning • Loss-length (Tier 1) fiber certification • Fiber plant characterization and troubleshooting (Tier 2 certification) This white paper details the best practice of fiber plant characterization and troubleshooting (Tier 2 certification).
The Fiber Best Practice Series was designed by Fluke Networks to educate about important optical fiber best practices, including: • Fiber inspection and cleaning • Loss-length (Tier 1) fiber certification • Fiber plant characterization and troubleshooting (Tier 2 certification).This white paper details the best practice of loss-length (tier 1) fiber certification.
In recent years, passive optical LANs have gained significant popularity as an alternative to horizontal copper structured cabling in a variety of enterprise spaces. The technology brings fiber out of the riser backbone and data center, and with that comes the need for fiber technicians to test these systems out in the horizontal space.
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10 /40 /100Gb/s transmission links are typically shared by a vast number of application and users.Claiming that they are most of the time mission critical and that failures are costly will find agreement within the industry. They require caution from the stage of planning, selection of material, installation all the way to the operational phase.
In last week’s blog, we took a Closer Look at 40 Gig Duplex Multimode Applications, just one of the many ways that today’s data centers are cost-effectively achieving increased bandwidth in switch-to-switch fiber links. And when we say many ways, we literally mean many. If you take a look at network application standards for balanced twisted-pair cable, there’s not that many to be concerned with. Sure, we had a methodical shift from 10BASE-T, to 100BASE-T, to 1000BASE-T, to 10GBASE-T that then jumped back to 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T to accommodate new technologies over the installed base and then forward again to the upcoming 25GBASE-T and 40GBASE-T standards, but all of this is nothing compared to fiber. And unlike fiber, there are few, if any, non-standard ways of deploying copper cabling.
Used primarily by commercial contactors and network technicians, certification testing determines if a link is compliant with a specific category or Class of cable as determined by well-defined parameters outlined in ANSI/TIA-568-C.2 or ISO/IEC standard 11801 (ed. 2). For instance, certification testing will determine if your link is compliant with Category 6 or Class EA standards.
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You’ve just finished a copper cabling installation for a customer, your DSX-5000 CableAnalyzer is properly configured and you’re ready to start testing. With a press of the “TEST” button, you’re off and running. Link after link, the tester displays a “Pass” and you’re feeling really good about the quality workmanship of your installation. All of the sudden, a “Fail” pops up on the screen and you’re forced to stop dead in your tracks. You know that all links must pass before the manufacturer will issue the warranty—and likely before you get paid for the job. Quickly isolating and repairing the problem can make all the difference in getting on with the business of warranting the installation, ensuring customer satisfaction and making money. Thankfully you have the powerful troubleshooting capabilities of the DSX-5000 in the palm of your hand.
This paper describes test methods for the various cabling configurations. Polarity is not discussed in this paper and it is assumed the test equipment automatically detects and reports the polarity properly. In the examples shown below, unpinned test equipment is used except for the channel test method. Five various procedures are shown.
Over the last few years, Category 8 has been gathering momentum, and TIA is now moving the 568-C.2-1 draft for this cabling to an industry ballot. This means it is possible that we could see publication as early as the end of this year. While category 6A and 10GBASE-T are just now becoming commonplace in the data center for switch-to-server connections, we can now say that copper cabling technology will be ready for what comes next—25GBASE-T and 40GBASE-T. As they did with category 6A, early adopters will therefore jump on the category 8 bandwagon.
By now you’ve probably heard of 8-fiber MPO plug and play solutions available on the market, which are ideal for Gigabit (40GBASE-SR4) and 100 Gigabit (100GBASE-SR4) applications that use 8 fibers with 4 transmitting and 4 receiving at either 10 or 25 Gb/s.
Verification testing answers this question. For copper cabling, these simple-to-use, low cost tools perform basic continuity functions such as wire map and toning. Wire mapping will tell you that each pair is connected to the right pins at plugs and jacks with good contacts in the terminations, while toning is used to help identify a specific cable in a bundle or at the remote end. Some verification testers like Fluke Networks' MicroScanner2 Cable Verifier include a Time Domain Reflectometer (TDR) feature to help determine the distance to the end of a cable or a trouble spot. It can also detect if a switch is connected to the cable under test.
Maximizing productivity in today's fast-paced workplace is essential. Whether installing new fiber links or troubleshooting an existing network, the faster you can locate a problem, the faster you can fix it. That's easier said than done when you are faced with a complex network of fibers, connectors and patch cords. A visual fault locator (VFL) is a great fiber diagnostic tool in your belt for verifying continuity and polarity and illuminating damaged connections, breaks, defective splices and tight fiber bends for exposed lengths of fiber in and around equipment racks. And while an Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) is an indispensable tool for finding problems large or small along the entire cable length, it may be beyond the price range of someone who only occasionally needs to figure out where the fiber is broken.
Polarity defines direction of flow, such as the direction of a magnetic field or an electrical current. In fiber optics, it defines the direction that light signals travels through an optical fiber. To properly send data via light signals, a fiber optic link’s transmit signal (Tx) at one end of the cable must match the corresponding receiver (Rx) at the other end.
So you came across some Category 6 cable available online for practically half what you've been paying for that brand name. It claims TIA-568-C compliance, includes the UL listing mark and even has a ETL verification legend printed right on the cable. Before you get too excited, you might want to make sure that cable isn't made with copper clad aluminum (CCA). Less expensive than using solid copper, cables made with CCA conductors are simply not worth the risk. Not only are they non-standards compliant, but they often do not have a valid UL safety listing per the National Electric Code(NEC)
Certifying a cabling installation doesn't mean anything without the burden of proof. Documenting the results is the only real way to ensure installation accountability and integrity, resolve disputes and facilitate more efficient troubleshooting. Even if the customer or a manufacturer's warranty doesn't require documented test results, documentation is still a best practice and your best protection. If you certify a cabling installation that later fails and you don't have the documentation to prove it, how else do you provide evidence that the cable was functioning properly and that it met the specification when you were done with the job?
If you’ve ever seen a technician using canned air or dusters for cleaning fiber end-faces, you’ve witnessed a very ineffective practice. Not only do canned air and dusters just succeed in blowing particles around, they are not all adequate for cleaning oils, residues, or small charged dust particles. Instead, use fabric and composite wipes made of lint-free material that provide the absorbency to remove contaminants from the end-face. But please remember to discard wipes after it’s been used up—a dirty wipe is the next dirty end face. Yet beware of using wipes alone—often referred to as “dry cleaning”—as this can leave a static charge on the fiber end face that actually attracts statically charged dust particles. A combination of composite wipes and solvent is really the way to go—solvents boost the cleaning ability of the wipe while eliminating the issue of static charge.
In our last Cable Testing 101 series, we covered the difference between OM3 and OM4 50µm multimode fiber -- primarily the fact that the fiber core of OM4 has been constructed to provide better attenuation and higher bandwidth, thereby allowing for longer link lengths. With OM4 at a premium over OM3, many data centers and LANs not requiring the extra distance afforded by OM4 continue to deploy OM3 multimode fiber cabling, and it remains more widely deployed for that reason. And while the two fiber types can be mixed due to the same core size, there are some considerations in general when it comes to mixing multimode fiber types.
To maximize return on investment, your test equipment moves from jobsite to jobsite. At any given moment, several of your skilled technicians can be testing and certifying network cabling with multiple testers for multiple concurrent projects in multiple areas—a real recipe for mixing up and misplacing test equipment. The more testers, the more complex it gets to keep track of them. Misplaced test equipment leads to project delays—something 68% of users say they have experienced. Despite the facts, the majority of installers do not actively manage their test equipment assets or use ad-hoc non-standard systems best, such as manual sign out sheets or Excel spread sheets. And yes, there are some installers that still use a peg board to keep track of who has a tester.
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Private networks in premises and campus environments are moving towards high-speed applications such as Gigabit Ethernet in order to handle the ever-increasing bandwidth requirements for faster data transmission. To achieve faster data transmission rates, 1 or 10 Gigabit Ethernet network devices like routers and switches must use high-speed laser light sources rather than the slower light emitting diode (LED) sources. With both lasers and LEDs used for data transmission, what type of source should you use when certifying optical fiber links?
While upgrading backbone cable plants in the LAN to support 10 Gig has been going on for several years since the release of the 10GBASE-SR standard for fiber, many enterprise businesses did not previously require these types of speeds, until now. Data centers are rapidly migrating to 25, 40 and even 100 Gigabit speeds to accommodate an increasing amount of virtualized servers that host more applications than ever before and vast volumes of data that needs to be accessed, transmitted and stored. At the same time, the demand for high speed transmission in the LAN is at an all-time high for both wired and wireless connections. While many larger enterprise businesses like universities and financial institutions have already upgraded their LAN backbones, there are still a vast number of others that are just now coming to the realization that 1 gigabit speeds are no longer adequate
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Let’s face it. Spring cleaning stinks. I mean, does anyone actually enjoy cleaning? I don’t know about you, but I certainly am not counting down my winter days until I can scrub the house top to bottom only to have it quickly soiled by muddy feet and paws, beach sand, cut grass and whatever else wanders in with the warmer weather. But dirt happens. And while cleaning may not be a barrel of fun, there is always some sense of satisfaction when it’s done and everything is looking its best.
How much time and money would you save if you could assure the performance of your data center’s 10 Gigabit Ethernet network, before you turned up service? How much confidence would you gain by knowing the 10 Gigabit cabling was installed according to standards? This paper describes changes 10 Gigabit Ethernet brings to the network infrastructure and the specific steps you can take to make your new data center network rock-solid.
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The next generation of VDSL2 technology call Bonding & Vectoring promises performances upwards of 100Mbs on your existing copper network (FTTN). This allows you to economically deliver significant performance boost to your customers without costly fiber investment. But can your copper plant handle the demands of bonding & vectoring ?
As fiber grows more common, network owners, network technicians and network installers are paying more attention to the two crucial devices for certifying fiber optical cable: the Optical Loss Test Set (OLTS) and the Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR). While the measurements taken by these instruments seem similar, they perform distinct yet important roles in the fiber certification process. This paper explains how each product works and how they complement each other to prevent network problems.
By now you will have heard about the new OptiFiber Pro OTDR and that’s a relief for me because I’ve been biting my tongue for a while! Now that its been announced, let me share my impressions and an overview of what makes the product unique. I will also include some links to more detailed information. Take this from a guy that has spent five of the last seven years playing with OTDRs… I’ve used them all. And this one is going to change everything!
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Developed for use in data centers and enterprise network applications with a very tight loss budget, bend insensitive multimode fiber (BIMMF) is able to withstand tighter bends with substantially less signal loss than non-BIMMF. A BIMMF design tightly confines the higher-order modes that are more likely to escape the fiber core during bending. The design achieves this by adding a specially engineered optical “trench” between the fiber core and cladding. While BIMMF allows cabling installers to deploy a network with less worry about inducing bend loss due to workmanship, there are some considerations when it comes to testing. Let’s take a closer look.
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Since the development of 40GBASE-T (IEEE 802.3bq) began a few years ago, most of us believed that the next Ethernet data center speed for twisted-pair copper cabling beyond 10 Gb/s would be 40 Gb/s.
When TIA adopts an IEC standard, or vice versa, it quite literally means that they take on and follow the standard. For example, TIA adopted the IEC 61280-4-1 multimode fiber optic testing standards as TIA-526-14-C. Because TIA has an outdated singlemode fiber optic testing standard, they are also considering the adoption of IEC 61280-4-2. If they do, it will be published as TIA-526-7.
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When we make an OTDR (Optical Time Domain Reflectometry) measurement, we use the launch cable to allow the trace to settle down after the pulse(s) are sent into the fiber, allowing us to see and analyse the start of the fiber being tested. This is because a large event will be seen in front of the connection on the trace usually caused by reflectance from the connector on the OTDR, thus not allowing us to make a good measurement of the first connection. The launch fiber also overcomes the issue of any dead zone (unseen event) that may occur if the pulse width is wider than the distance to a connector a short distance away from the OTDR connector.