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From: wsmith@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Warren Smith [Randy])
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Need Fiber Attenuation Tester/Fiber Connectorization
Keywords: Fiber Attenuation Test Equipment Portable Connectorization
Message-ID: <5918@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu>
Date: 20 Jun 88 21:28:49 GMT
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Reply-To: wsmith@umn-cs.UUCP (Warren Smith [Randy])
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In article <2993@louie.udel.EDU> garrett@udel.EDU (Joel Garrett) writes:
>In article <5815@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> wsmith@umn-cs.UUCP (Warren Smith [Randy]) writes:
>
>>If your fiber does break in the middle
>>of a run (never happened here) you are basically out of luck if
>>you can't find it by visual inspection of the cable.
>
>We had a break in one of our fiber cables last year and had a branch of the
>local phone company come out and take a look at it.  They hooked up something
>called an Optical Time Delay Reflectometer and it gave us a very good idea of
>where in the breach the cable was.  ....

Good point.  I neglected to mention the OTDR because the original question
was about a low budget approach to installing fiber (and OTDR's are not
cheap!).  Like you, we were able to "rent" and OTDR from a local company
(in our case a local power company that had a bunch of extra ones lying
around).  So I guess this might be a viable option for people in a similar
bind.

Randy
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Randy Smith