Fibre Planning
Course Duration  
4-day instructor-led training, 0900-1700

Course Instructor
 
The trainer has 30 years of solid track record in Telco environment, both in consulting as well as management capacity. He was the CEO of Ganesa Telecommunications. At Ganesa, he started up the Rural CLEC focusing on placement of fibre-to-the-premise and the "Triple Play" product offerings in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Apart from P/L responsibilities, he has oversight of the design, installation, site acquisitions, procurement, commissioning and operations of FTTP network offering voice, CATV, and IP services via FTTP network.

Prior to Ganesa, he was the Program Director of Winstar Hong Kong. At Winstar, he was responsible for the design, installation, site acquisitions, procurement, commissioning and operations of LMDS network offering voice and IP services via LMDS network.

Before Winstar, he was a Technical Consultant with Teleglobe, and was responsible for the redesign of telephony networks, including their Interconnects and SS7 networks.

During his career, he has built five international Greenfield telecommunications companies,.

Other positions he had previously held were, namely, Program Director of Fibrenet Telecom Group (where he was responsible for turnkey design, installation and commissioning of a SONET-based transmission network that encompassed (8) strands of fibre in downtown Manhattan), Technical Consultant for XO Communications, Global Telesystems Inc, Program Director for Saudi Aramco etc.

Course Objectives
After successfully completing this course, attendees will be able to:
  • Calculate optical fibre systems losses
  • Understand the types of optical fibre cables and associated applications
  • Be familiarised with installation practices for optical fibre
  • Be familiarised with optical fibre connectors
  • Be familiarised with optical networking technologies

Course Overview
 
This course will introduce students to optical fibre and associated technologies. Emphasis is on the system budgeting and optical fibre types that should be used for specific types of applications.

Key Benefits
Attendees will learn and be conversant with optical fibre budgeting and types of optical fibre cables that are applicable to specific optical systems.

Pre-requisite for Participants
Basic math skills.

Who Should Attend?
Telecommunications engineers interested in the design of optical fibre cabling systems.

Recommended Follow-on Courses
  • Fibre Networks Operations – Metro/Long Haul
  • SDH Transmission Systems
  • SDH/ PDH Workshop
  • SDH and DWDM Fundamentals
  • Synchronisation of Digital Communications Systems
  • Optical Networking
  • DWDM and Optical Networking
  • WDM Optical Networks: Survivability and Traffic Grooming
  • Deploying High Speed Broadband Technologies
  • Introduction to Optical Access Networks and FTTx
  • FTTx Networks: Passive and Active Optical Networks – Design Considerations
  • Outside Plant Design Overview and Fundamentals
  • Outside Plant Engineering: Direct Buried Principles and Techniques
  • Outside Plant Engineering: Underground Principles and Techniques
  • Telecommunications Project Management
  • Advanced Telecommunications Project Management
  • Telecommunications Project Management: Outside Plant Project Focus

Course Outline
Optical Fibre History
Optical Fibre Manufacturing Processes
Optical Fibre Elements
Optical Fibre Characteristics
  • Waveguide
  • Total Internal Reflection
  • Numerical Aperture
Types of Optical Fibres
Windows of Operations
Optical Fibre Attenuation
  • Bend Losses
  • Micro- & Macro Bends
  • Splice
  • Connector
  • Absorption
  • Fibre Fabrication
  • Reflection
Optical Fibre Dispersion
  • Chromatic
  • Polarisation
Optical Signal to Noise Ratio
Optical Fibre Non-linearities
  • Scattering
  • Carrier Induced Phase
  • Self Phase
  • Cross Phase
  • Four Wave Mixing
Optical Fibre Connectors
Light Sources
Optical Fibre Cables Types
Optical Power Budget Planning
  • Passive System
  • Calculating Fibre Loss
  • Loss Budget – Active Elements
  • Calculating Fibre lengths
  • Calculating Dispersion
Optical Fibre Installation Practices Overview
  • Splicing
  • Connectorisation
  • Materials
Optical Fibre Cable Placement Methodologies
  • Direct Buried
  • Trenching
  • Directional Boring
  • Underground Systems
  • Aerial
  • MicroTrenching
  • Blown Fibre
Elements of Optical Fibre Link
Fibre Technology trends
  • OTN
  • PDH
  • SDH
  • DWDM
  • Carrier Ethernet
  • PON