SCTE Training: All Things Fiber Optics

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.

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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!