CREATING A TRI-REPORT
OVERVIEW
TEST PROCEDURES
Tri-report.
Link certification
OTDR traces
Endface analysis
CREATING A TRI-REPORT
Sooner or later, technicians will be required to provide their
clients with comprehensive certification reports that include standards-
based link certification results, OTDR traces and events, and fiber
endface analysis.
OWLView software gathers together all three of these critical data and
formats them onto one single-page “TRI-report” (similar to the one
shown here).
provides clients with a PASS/FAIL test result,
ensuring that fiber links are installed and tested according to popular
industry standards, including TIA-568 and various levels of Ethernet.
When used with a corresponding light source, Fiber OWL 7+ certifiers
allow users to certify multimode and/or singlemode optical fiber links.
Many clients are also requesting
for the purpose of “link
characterization”; i.e. a visual “roadmap” of the fiber link. OTDR traces
include a graphical representation of the fiber link that shows the
different “events” in the fiber link including patch panels, and event
tables show the relative loss of individual events.
OWLView software allows users to import OTDR traces taken with Fiber
OWL 7+ certification meters, and appends the traces to the link
certification report.
Clients are also interested in seeing the quality of their fiber endfaces at the time of testing.
digitally inspects a fiber
endface image for scratches and defects that may adversely affect data transmission.
OWLView software includes PASS/FAIL endface analysis based on the popular IEC 63500-3-35 endface inspection standard, and
can analyze JPG endface images taken with any fiber videoscope.
Creating a tri-report is a simple three step process. The recommended order of operations is as follows:
Once all of the information has been gathered, OWLView software integrates the data into a single report.
This section will cover how to use OWLView to create a TRI-report.
Capture endface images
Run OTDR traces
Certify the cabling
Measure end-to-end loss with a power meter and
light source for PASS/FAIL testing
METER
TEST
SAVE
CERT
FIBER#1
ACME CORP / HQ WEST
M=COMPUTER ROOM I=NETWORK HUB 3
Length:
100m WAVE:
EIA/TIA 568C.3 CON: 2
INDOOR SM SPL: 2
1310
ENTER
-0.24
1310nm
PASS
by
dB
1.86
dB
-0.23
1550nm
PASS
by
dB
1.87
dB
SOURCE
Optical Source
WaveSource Pro
AUTO
PORT
MOD
CW
METER
Images of endfaces show quality of terminations
Characterize the network, and measure the total
length of the fiber link