Elements and Performance Criteria
- Set up and prepare for working with live fibre
- Obtain relevant legislation, codes, regulations and standards for compliance when conducting work
- Scope the work by obtaining project plan from appropriate personnel and arrange for site access to comply with security arrangements
- Notify appropriate personnel of identified safety hazards at the worksite
- Determine type of FTTx equipment, components of optical distribution network (ODN) and WDM components from project plan for testing and commissioning
- Obtain tools and safety equipment and materials to perform tasks safely and efficiently
- Select and use required protective equipment and make site safe and secure for commissioning work
- Create a safe working environment by following safe work practices and identifying optical fibre hazards that could cause possible injuries when handling optical fibres and laser-based equipment
- Connect a splitter input fibre to the feeder cable
- Follow occupational health and safety (OHS) and environmental requirements for the given work and identify and avoid other services
- Locate the feeder fibre port to be connected
- Determine the state (live or not) of the fibre port to be connected and notify transmitter to ensure that power is turned off at the source if the fibre port is live
- Connect up connectorised splitter input fibres as instructed by the manufacturer
- Arrange for power to be turned back on to the newly connected feeder port
- Perform live WDM commission testing of a ODN installation used in FTTx network
- Locate the appropriate test points in the ODN from manufacturer’s instructions for WDM testing
- Test live wavelengths for the WDM tests following safety precautions
- Test the optical signal strengths for the operating wavelengths incoming into the optical network termination (ONT) and determine if signal strengths are within the range of acceptable power levels
- Test the losses between the WDM outputs and the individual LM for each wavelength and determine if within maximum and minimum power losses
- Conduct all acceptance tests as specified by manufacturer
- Record and tabulate all tests results for commissioning requirements
- Clean up work site