Thales test engineers pioneer certification
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Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Aug 14, 2006
Thales has become the first UK company to invest in training its team of test engineers to meet the demanding standards required of the Certified Fibre Characterisation Engineer qualification.
Thales has become the first UK company to invest in training its team of test engineers to meet the demanding standards required of the Certified Fibre Characterisation Engineer (CFCE) qualification.
Four of the company's test engineers attended the 5-day "characterisation of advanced fibre infrastructures" training course at Optical Technology Training's centre in Skipton, North Yorkshire in June.
Since the launch of this unique, world-leading training course last year, OTT has trained delegates from Poland, Norway, South Africa and America as well as the UK on scheduled public courses, however Thales is the first to book an exclusive company course.
The training course has been designed by Richard Ednay, the UK's principal expert on fibre optic testing, to provide delegates with the knowledge and skills that they need to characterise optical fibre infrastructures to assess their ability to support modern high date applications such as 10 and 40Gbit/s operation and extended wavelength operation that may be required for next generation DWDM and CWDM systems.
The intensive advanced training course provides delegates with the opportunity to try out a range of test equipment from the world's leading manufacturers including JDSU (Acterna), Agilent, EXFO, PE fibreoptics (Perkin Elmer), Anritsu (NetTest), KD Optics and Sunrise Telecom including the latest fibre characterisation systems.
Test methods covered on the course include insertion loss measurements and spectral attenuation, advanced OTDR testing, as well as chromatic dispersion and polarisation mode dispersion (PMD).
Specially constructed test systems include various types of G.652 and G.655 fibres, as well as systems constructed with WDMs and dispersion compensators.
In addition to carrying out the tests and validating the data, the course covers the analysis and interpretation of results.
This allows CFCEs to report on infrastructure quality, such as grading fibre according to ITU fibre types G.652.A, B, C or D, as well as assessing the ability of a link to support 10 or 40Gbit/s transmission in accordance with ITU, IEEE or transmission system vendors' requirements.
"The course was really intensive, there is so much to know about", commented Chris Wells of Thales, "but we all passed the exam and the practical assignment".
"This course really puts Thales at the leading edge of service provision the UK's telecomms companies", added Tom Paterson, also of Thales.
"A really worthwhile investment and the best course I have ever attended", he concluded.
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