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Fiber Optic Communications

2 Day Seminar

Who Should Attend ?

Data and voice communications managers, technical supervisors, technicians and engineers in user organizations, and government agencies building professionals, property and facilities managers, representatives of contracting firms and equipment, cabling and component manufacturers.

Course Outline

I. FIBER OPTICS BASICS
A. Optical Principles
B. Sources and Transmitter Circuits
C. Detectors and Receiver Circuits
D. Medium
     1. Types of Fibers
     2. Manufacturing Processes
E. Connectors
F. Splicing
G. Cable Designs
H. Applications
     I. Fiber Optic Equipment
       Architecture

II. TYPICAL APPLICATIONS

III. THE LINK-LOSS BUDGET

IV. LOCAL AREA NETWORKS
A. LAN Basics and Types
B. OSI
C. ANSI X3T9 FDDI and FDDI Requirements
     1. Multimode
     2. Singlemode
     3. IEEE 802.8 Coordination
D. Case Studies
     1. Connecting Two LANs
     2. LAN to Wide Area Networks
     3. An All-glass LAN

V. EIA TR-41.8 FOPTICS CABLING
     RECOMMENDATIONS
A. IBM Cabling System and Fiber
     Optic Products
B. AT&T's PDS
C. DEC's DECconnect
D. Northern Telecom's IBDN
E. Core of the Issue: 100 vs 85 vs
      62.5 vs 50 and Single Mode.
F. Other Product's Requirements

VI. WIRING THE LOCAL AREA
A. High Rise Topologies and
Considerations
B. Campus Topologies and
Considerations
C. Case Studies

VII. METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS
A. Teleports
B. IEEE 802.6 MAN --- DQDB
C. LANs - MANs - WANs
connectivity
D. CATV's use of Foptics

VIII. TRANSMISSION PLANNING /
       DESIGN LONG-HAUL
A. Rights of Way
B. Aerial and Underground Expenses
C. Elements
D. Repeater Spacing
E. Wave Division Multiplexing
F. Life Cycles
G. SONET
H. Case Studies
     1. A Telephone Company
     2. An Underseas System
     3. A Power Line System

IX. NETWORK SYSTEM INTEGRATION
and SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
ISSUES
A. Integrated Services Digital Network
B. Disaster Recovery Planning
C. IBM's SNA
D. Other Standards
E. Prospering a Multivendor Environment

X.MANAGEMENT ISSUES
A. What's important; what's not?
B. When does fiber make sense?
C. How do I sell my organization on it?

XI.TECHNICIAN TRAINING and
TROUBLESHOOTING
A. Test Instruments
B. Personnel Qualifications
C. Recommend Courses
D. Recurrent Training and Recalibration
E. Comparisons on In-house vs.
Contract Costs.
F. Safety and Regulatory Concerns

XII. SPECIAL SECURITY ISSUES

XIII. VENDOR SELECTION
A. Evaluation Strategies
B. Sample RFP

XIV. OTHER APPLICATIONS
A. Photonic Switching
B. Military Uses

XV. FUTURE TRENDS
A. Technology
B. Standards
C. Applications
1. Optical Local Loops: When?
D. Strategic Implications

Key Benefits

	A 640 Page reference manual, including clear diagrams, flow charts and decision trees, a valuable resource you will refer to often.
	4 specific steps for avoiding connector problems - and how they will improve transmission.
	A 12-page comparison chart of multimode connectors and a 6-page chart of single mode connectors.
	A 19-page glossary with 247 terms to bring you up to speed in the special new language of Fiber Optics.
	4 Reasons why installation and maintenance of fiber systems is so difficult.
	3 types of fibers commonly used in communications.
	A sample 15 page fiber specification - a useful model you can refer to when developing or evaluating specs.
	The 6 basic elements of a fiber optic system.
	Learn, in plain English, the scientific basis of fiber transmission and its practical import and dozens of other terms you will need to understand to meet the challenge of fiber networks.
	Hands-on experience to save you costly installation mistakes - practical steps you can learn from an expert's experience with successful installations.

Course Leader
William A. Morgan
Managing Partner
W and J PARTNERSHIP
Castro Valley, CA

Bill Morgan has over 20 years experience in telecommunications and computers. His Consulting practice includes management, engineering, and hands-on fiber optics consulting to many of the largest users and vendors in the United States as well as to international customers. He has been the designer of one of the nation's largest private voice/data networks; primary systems designer for a long-haul fiber optics communications system; and designer and engineering manager for numerous LAN systems. He has extensive building, campus and metropolitan experience. He is a popular speaker at national and regional conferences and a member of several professional societies.

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