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The Fiber Testing Best Practices pocket guide was designed by Fluke Networks to educate about important optical fiber handling best practices, including: * Fiber inspection and cleaning * Loss-length fiber testing (Tier 1 certification) * Fiber plant characterization and troubleshooting (Tier 2 certification) At just 4" x 6", this sturdy pocket guide is ideal to take on all your fiber jobs. Including a quick-action summary and checklist, this guide is an invaluable tool to ensure you never miss a critical step during your fiber testing or troubleshooting.

After measuring the loss of a fiber link, you now have to determine if that loss is acceptable or not. You can either compare this loss value to the application requirement or calculate the expected loss based on how many connectors and splices are in the link along with the length of the fiber link and the wavelength being measured. It's not has difficult as it sounds!

Learn about fiber optic performances, How High connector loss, low return loss, or high reflectance damage on your network applications.

Avoid your downtime by proper calculating the loss budget with Fluke Networks' CertiFiber® Pro. It is always recommended to calculate loss budget during the design phase to your actual test results.