Fiber Characterization is critical to verify the integrity of fiber prior to deployment through the measurement of key parameters, such as attenuation, reflectance, and dispersion. Indeed, complete fiber characterization is now an ITU-T standard requirement.
Fiber characterization is required to ensure that poor ORL, CD, and PMD results do not impair certain types of traffic, such as10G and DWDM.
We carry out a suite of service tests and give you a plant characteristics for each fiber tested. Typical tests include:

• Event characterization (all events)
• Insertion loss and Return Loss testing
• Polarization mode dispersion
• Chromatic dispersion
• Connector end face inspection is routinely carried out. If customer requests, we can give a picture of connector end-face together with the results.

Fiber characterization helps you optimize the performance of your fiber networks by identifying the limitation of the fiber under test. By proactively identifying problems, you can then take the appropriate corrective actions or select the optimal equipment for your high-speed network deployment.