1. Prove the Capacity of your Fibre Infrastructure
Prove the Capacity of your Fibre Infrastructure. Fluke Networks @ CMS plc November A company

2. Enterprise Network Test Solutions For Datacom Installers, Network Engineers
Market leader in copper and fiber cable certification and testing
Copper test solutions
Fiber test solutions
Wireless solutions
Market leader in troubleshooting and portable management
Portable network test and analysis
Wireless LAN troubleshooting and management
Deep Packet Analysis and Capture
Fluke Networks Solutions
OptiView XG Network Analyzer tablet
DTX CableAnalyzer
Network Time Machine
MicroScanner, NetTool, LinkRunner 2

3. Today’s Agenda Current market for Copper data cabling.
Trends in Enterprise Fibre
Testing fibre infrastructure for Performance
Testing a link while-you-watch…
Q&A

4. Copper Data Cable Review
Twisted Pair Market:
Cat5E still dominates new installation
Cat6 is being installed, but why?
Cat6A is the ultimate copper solution today
Cat7: performance without a reason?
and Cat7A…….

5. Enterprise Fiber: Growing Exponentially
1.5 Billion new internet-connected devices by 2015 (Intel)
57% annual growth in Enterprise fiber ports: (Dell’Oro, 2011)
In 2015, the equivalent of every movie ever made will transit IP networks, every 5 minutes (Cisco Systems)

6. Enterprise Fiber: Growing Exponentially
24% annual growth in storage spending for cloud computing (IDC)
54% growth in 10Gbps+ fiber LAN transceivers (Finisar)
One-hop fabrics replacing traditional switch architecture in datacentres

7. Testing Fiber: Never More Critical
Solving problems
Increasing network reliability
Maintaining data access
Certifying workmanship

8. Four Steps to Determining Fibre link Performance
Inspect it - Clean it - Inspect it again
Polarity check
Performance Test
Extra Data and Troubleshooting

9. Inspect it – Clean it – Inspect it again.
ALL end-faces have to be clean and undamaged!
Inspecting the fibre end-faces is part of the BASIC test regime according to IEC
Cleaning the end-faces each and every time is not an option….it’s mandatory!
“Any connecting hardware adapters used together with all connector end-faces on the test cords comprising the cabling interface adapter, and the cabling under test shall be cleaned according to the instructions provided by the manufacturer of the connectors. Cleaning shall be repeated every time a test cord is connected to the cabling or component under test.”

10. Check Polarity Visual Fault Locator (Laser light-pen)
Uses high intensity visible light source
Quick and Easy to use
Relatively low cost
Provides a go/no-go indication
Can help find sources of loss.

11. Fibre Performance Certification
Standards-based Two-Tier Testing (TIA TSB-140)
Tier 1: OLTS (Optical Loss Test Set)
Power Meter and Light Source with built-in length measure.
Losses and lengths conform to industry standards
Most closely simulates active system
Verify polarity using OLTS
Tier 2: Tier 1 plus OTDR trace
Evidence that cable is installed without degrading events (e.g. bends, connectors, splices)

12. Loss/length Certification (with DTX)
Test two fibers (a transmit/receive pair)
Each fiber at two wavelengths
Measure optical length
Compute power budget and display Pass or Fail
Standards-based Tier 1 certification
2 power measurements in each direction, plus length
Comprehensive Go/No-go result

13. Tier 2: Where fibre diagnostics reside.
Tier 2: Tier 1 plus OTDR trace
Evidence that cable is installed without degrading events (e.g. bends, connectors, splices)

14. OptiFiber Pro: Changing the Game…
Event Map: Alternative trace presentation of link topology
Reduces need for OTDR expertise
Icons designate the type of fiber event
One-tap gives access to all event details

15. Finding the Faults…. Reflectance: The silent bandwidth thief
FaultMap is the fastest way to find reflectance and eliminate insidious reliability problems
Icons designate large and small reflectance
One-tap access to event details

16. OTDR Testing Made Easy
Optifiber Pro Live……

17. Thank you