FTTH (FIBER TO THE HOME) TECHNOLOGY & OPERATION

By the end of the program, participants will be able to:

1. Detailed experience in jointing, splicing and testing fibre optics systems
2. A solid knowledge of fibre optics communications systems
3. Literature review for different communication and transmission systems
4. Latest applications for FTTX distribution techniques and specially FTTH
5. How to design and install your own fully operational fibre optics FTTH
6. Approaches to troubleshooting the system operation system

• Telecommunications engineers and technicians, Maintenance engineers and technicians, process control engineer, project engineers, Electrical engineers, consulting engineers, systems engineers, project managers, electricians.

Day 1: Introduction to Fibre Optics Systems

• Introduction
• Historical background to fiber optics
• Comparison of fiber optics and copper systems
• Data communications
• Communications channel
• Transmission modes
• Revisiting copper
• Fundamentals principles of FO operations
• Light transmission nature of glass
• Model propagation in fiber
• Multimode/ single mode/step index/ graded index
• Bandwidth of fibers
• Modal and chromatic dispersion
• Absorption/scatter/ bending/ radiation/mismatches
• Other types of fibers

Day 2: Construction of Fibre Optic Cables

• Cable objective, structural elements & Strengthening members
• Housing- loose tube/ slotted core/ tight buffers
• Sheaths and moisture barriers
• Classes of cables- aerial/ underground/ subaqueous/ indoor
• Connecting fiber
• Optical connection issues
• Fiber end preparation
• Splicing fibers- fusion/mechanical
• Connectors & Optical couplers

Day 3: Fibre Optics System Design

• Initial design considerations
• Future capacity/ reliability/ operating wavelength
• Repeaters and amplifiers
• Design loss calculations / link loss budgets
• Testing fiber optics systems
• Concepts of optical measurements
• Continuity testing
• Optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR)

Day 4: Communication Basics

• Analog and digital systems
• Standard voice channel
• Pulse code modulation
• PDH & E1
• SDH

Day 5: FTTH Technology

• WDM, CWDM, DWDM & UDWDM
• FTTX applications
• FTTH networks and architectures
• Physical Parameters Affecting FTTH
• Troubleshooting FTTH networks
• New trends in fiber optics systems and components

• The Training lectures.
• The Group discussions.
• The Training Workshops.