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Even the smartest fiber technician who knows how to properly clean a fiber endface can make the mistake of forgetting to properly inspect before making that final connection. And when it comes to inspecting DO NOT think that a manual inspection with a fiber microscope is the best method of proper inspection. Depending on your experience, ambient lighting, eyesight, or even how rushed or how tired you are, what you deem as clean with a manual inspection may not be. There is always a chance that you didn't see that one tiny speck of dirt on the fiber core.

Despite industry best practice of inspecting and cleaning fiber optic endfaces, contaminated connections remain the number one cause of fiber related problems and test failures in data centers, campus and other enterprise or telecom networking environments.