KEY TEST PARAMETERS
Fiber standards are a common set of rules or guidelines written by various national and international standards organizations for
the purpose of defining criteria used to determine a PASS/FAIL reading (i.e. “good or not”).
Most testing should use the EIA/TIA 568 suite of standards, but there are many other choices. Below is a list of standards defined
in the Fiber OWL 7 BIDI fiber certifier:
EIA/TIA 568-C.3 EIA/TIA 568.3-D 1000BASE-SX
1000BASE-LX
10GBASE-S
10GBASE-LX4 10GBASE-L
10GBASE-E
40GBASE-S
40GBASE-LR4
100GBASE-S
100GBASE-LR10
FTTH CLASS A/B/C
FIBER STANDARD
Fiber OWL 7 BIDI fiber certifiers can certify fiber links in three different ways:
BIDI
Certifies two fibers in a fiber pair simultaneously, one fiber in one direction and the other fiber in the opposite direction,
then the fibers are swapped at both ends to certify the fibers in the opposite directions
PAIR
Certifies two fibers in a fiber pair simultaneously, one fiber in one direction and the other fiber in the opposite direction
(minimum requirement for standards-based certification)
CERT
Certifies fiber cable in one direction on one fiber at a time
TEST MODE
The following terminology may appear during fiber type selection:
Fiber types
62.5
62.5/125μm multimode
50
50/125μm multimode
SM
singlemode
Link types
CS1
terminates at a wall outlet on one end (Cabling Subsystem 1; also called horizontal)
CS2
terminates at a patch panel on both ends (Cabling Subsystems 2/3; also called backbones)
Indoor
does not extend past the building’s outside wall
Outdoor
extends past the building’s outside wall
In/Out
when indoor/outdoor fiber cabling is used, but the link does not extend past the building’s outside wall
Special designations
OM1
62.5/125μm multimode
OM2
standard 50/125μm multimode
OM3
laser-optimized 50/125μm multimode @ 2000 MHz-km bandwidth
OM4
laser-optimized 50/125μm multimode @ 4700 MHz-km bandwidth
OS1/OS2
singlemode
FIBER TYPE
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