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Fibre Optic Training

With over 14 years of experience in the telecommunications training industry, we provide themost relevant and real life fibre optic training courses available in the UK, our fibre optic courses and facilities are accredited by the largest number of independent organisations of any communications training provider in the UK, these include City & Guilds 3667, BTEC (Edexel), FIA (Fibreoptic Industry Association), and BICSI.

With-in the CNet Fibre Lab you will have hands on practical experience using leading Fibre products. We are able to simulate many installation scenarios using our Fibre Lab and the newly established CNet Data Centre, you will be able to use fibre testing equipment such as OTDR’s, Fluke CCTT DTX and light source power meters. It’s as close to a real life fibre install situation as you can get.

CNet Data Centre, Server Room and Fibre Lab practical areas
CNet Fibre Optic courses encompass a wide variety of topics some of the main points are listed:

    Health & safety
    • Optical fibre, the hazards, laser radiation
    Fibre Optical transmission theory
    • Basic concepts of light, light transmission through optical fibre, elements in optical links, features & construction, advantages & disadvantages
    System attenuation
    • Microbending, temperature & alignment, fresnel reflection, numerical aperture, concentricity & eccentricity
    Fibre Optic Cable types & specification
    • Fibre cables for specific applications, cable construction, OM1, OM2, OM3, OS1, specification & management
    Optical passive connectors
    • APC, ultra/super PC, singlemode & multimode connectors
    Tooling & fibre preparation
    • Hand tools, microscopes, polishing tools, stripping & cleaning
    Fibre connectors & termination
    • ST, SC & S.F.F connectors, epoxy, pre-filled & anerobic termination, common usage, termination procedures, ‘pigtail’ splicing
    
 Fibre installation techniques
    • Cable & hardware, fibre cable joint enclosures
    • Cable & fibre preparation, various organisation trays
    Fusion splicing
    • Different fusion splicers; ‘V’ groove, semi & fully automatic

    Fibre testing & fault-finding

    Optical Time Domain
    • Reflectometer (OTDR) Testing, result interpretation, system requirements
    • Introductory OTDR Testing
    • Advanced OTDR Testing Course
    • OTDR Trace Analysis
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The fibre optic training courses we offer are mapped against the NQF (National Qualifications Framework) and therefore allow individuals and companies to cross reference the level of each course against the national framework which is produced and published by the QCA (Qualifications Curriculum Authority*).

Our qualifications include BTEC Intermediate Award in Datacomms Installation (Fibre) accredited by Edexel and the City & Guilds 3666 range including the 01, 02, 03 and 04 units (this replaces the old C&G 3466).

Our portfolio of fibre optic training courses are suitable for the following groups of people:
  • Existing engineers who wish to update and add skills to their current knowledge
  • Existing engineers who wish to gain a qualification to verify their competency
  • New entrants to the industry who wish to gain the appropriate knowledge in order to secure employment
  • Sales staff who need to understand the issues facing their customers
  • Maintenance staff who may need to perform on site maintenance and repair
  • Project managers and supervisors

*QCA is a non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES). It is governed by a board, whose members are appointed by the secretary of State for Education and Skills, and managed on a day-to-day basis by an executive team.
Is it Fibre or Fiber

Our US partners spell fiber this way whilst most UK organisations will use fibre. However it’s becoming more common to see the US spelling of fiber used as organisations adopt a more global stance. We will if you prefer change our course material to the USA fiber as apposed to the UK fibre to suite your company policies. Within this web site we use fibre as the standard and not fiber.

An Ongoing Debate

The debate over the correct spelling of words first began when Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language was published in1755, followed by Noah Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828. While people in England preferred Johnson's spellings, Webster's simplified variations became increasingly popular in the United States.
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