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SCTE Training: All Things Fiber Optics

10/25/2017

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The Iowa Heartland Chapter of the SCTE has a great training scheduled in November, and we'd encourage municipals and other broadband providers to send their technical staffs to learn more about "All Things Fiber".

The training will be held on Tuesday, November 7th at IAMU in Ankeny and Wednesday, November 8th at Kirkwood Community College in Hiawatha. On each day there will be a morning session and an afternoon session; attendees need only attend ONE session at ONE location.

To make it even more convenient, two Iowa municipals - Cedar Falls Utilities and Muscatine Power & Water - are hosting remote sessions on Tuesday, November 7th. Both the AM and PM sessions that day will be "broadcast" live from Ankeny and shown at CFU and MPW via webinar.

Morning sessions at each site (live or remote) are from 8:30am to 11:30pm and afternoon sessions are from 1:00pm to 4:00pm.

The training will be led by Ron Grigsby with RDG Telecom.  Here's the scheduled agenda:
  1. A brief history of Fiber Optics
  2. Physical Characteristics
    • Single Mode
      • Construction
      • Uses
      • G.652
      • Ribbon vs. Loose Tube
    • Multimode
      • Construction
      • Uses
  3. Connector types and uses
    • SC/UPC and SC/APC
    • LC/UPC and LC/APC
    • ST       
    • FC
    • MTP
    • Other
  4. Cleaning & Care
    • Wet vs. Dry
    • Inspection
  5. Testing Fiber
    • Physical
      • Light Source
      • Power Meter
      • OTDR
      • OSA
      • Fiber Inspection Probe
    • Services
      • HFC
      • Transport
      • DWDM/CWDM
      • Mux/DeMux
  6. Applications for Fiber
    • HFC
    • Transport
    • PON
    • Enterprise
    • Uni-directional/Bi-directional
    • Wavelengths uses (1310/1550/PON/ITU-T Grid)

The cost is just $10 for SCTE members and $15 for non-members. Even better, the Iowa chapter can directly bill your organization for the attendees you send so no credit cards are required.

To register, CLICK HERE or go to http://www.iowaheartlandscte.org/events--training.html for all the details.  Managers, you can click the link multiple times if you'd like to register multiple employees.  We'd love to see a great turnout for this, our final training session of the year!
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NCTC partners with SCTE for discounted training

3/30/2017

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The National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) has announced an agreement with the Society for Cable Telecom Engineers (SCTE) to provide member discounts on SCTE's vast library of online training courses.

The online SCTE courses are designed to enhance the skills of broadband technicians and other employees.  For a list of available courses, CLICK HERE.

In addition to NCTC discounts, the courses are less expensive if the person taking it is a member of the SCTE. As a shameless plug from yours truly, the secretary of the Iowa Heartland Chapter of the SCTE, I can vouch for the value that SCTE membership brings. Also, our Iowa chapter offers a number of trainings and events to provide broadband technicians with hands-on learning. CLICK HERE for a list of the 2017 trainings!

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