Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for DWDM planning activities
- 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
- Plan DWDM installation activities and develop specifications
- Follow work health and safety (WHS) and environmental requirements for given work and identify and avoid other services
- Identify tools, safety equipment, plant and machinery for installation work activities
- Conduct physical inspections of proposed DWDM sites and verify backbone dark fibre is accessible and available according to cabling plan
- Verify proposed backbone and customer fibre cable routes to splicing cabinet and fibre patch panel, and identify barriers to cable installation
- Verify proposed power cabling route from distribution board and circuit breakers, and identify barriers to cable installation
- Modify cable plan if required and notify appropriate personnel
- Prepare fibre installation specifications and power cable and grounding specifications according to cabling plan and safe work practices and manufacturer’s instructions
- Verify proposed location of associated hardware racks, cabinets and ironwork, and confirm access to enterprise local area network (LAN)
- Prepare DWDM shelf configuration and specifications according to customer requirements
- Prepare a configuration document including configuration plans and specifications for the installation team
- Specify location of DWDM shelves or racks and the shelf interconnection fibre cabling layout according to cabling plan
- Specify individual DWDM units and circuit card types required to suit customer requirements
- Plan preliminary optical tests
- Verify backbone fibres at patch panel and conduct bidirectional optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) test and record measurement results and OTDR images
- Conduct bidirectional optical loss test set (OLTS) measurement of insertion loss on backbone fibres from patch panel to patch panel at adjacent sites and record measurement results
- Complete documentation and obtain sign-off