{"id":54465,"date":"2009-12-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.directindustry.com\/press\/eks-engel\/safe-fiber-optic-monitoring-41250-336357.html"},"modified":"2009-12-17T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T13:00:00","slug":"safe-fiber-optic-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/54465","title":{"rendered":"Safe fiber optic monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With fiberview eks Engel presents a new monitoring system for converters of the d-light series<br \/>\nMonitoring specified system budgets of fiber links is still a poor relation within fiber optic networks. A certain link attenuation, however, is normal and the result of the fibers&#8217; characteristics, the number of splices and the connectors used. Also environmental influences such as temperature range and the cable laying play an important role. If a predefined limit is gone below, this is a sign of an increased attenuation and can have various reasons.<\/p>\n<p>If a recommended bending radius is not kept to, this may lead to link attenuation and losses. Others reasons could be fiber breaks, incorrect installation and dirty or damaged connectors.<\/p>\n<p>Better planning<\/p>\n<p>Monitoring system budgets does not only minimize the risk of incorrect installation, but it also guarantees the proper operation of networks through an effective organization of service.<\/p>\n<p>fiberview works similarly to a traffic light. LEDs show whether the budget for the fiber link is perfect, still tole-rable or insufficient. Without any room for interpretation, the optical signals &#8220;red&#8221;, &#8220;yellow&#8221; and &#8220;green&#8221; display the status of every optical channel. If the &#8220;traffic light&#8221; is green, everything is fine. If the yellow light is flashing, the budget is still tolerable, but already below a certain system reserve. Additionally to the LED, this pre-warning level is also signaled by a potential-free contact. If the &#8220;traffic light&#8221; turns red, however, there is a serious error such as a fiber break or the like.<\/p>\n<p>Status at first sight<\/p>\n<p>Thus fiberview ensures the proper installation of fiber optic networks since the LEDs directly show if the as-signed bandwidth is reached. This is also a great benefit during service, because the current status of the prede-fined system budgets is visible at first sight. The single signals green, yellow and red relate to clear statements. Room for interpretation has been avoided on purpose. <\/p>\n<p>Time and cost savings through pre-warning level<\/p>\n<p>A major advantage of the monitoring technology fiber-view is the pre-warning level which is signaled by the yellow LED. Thus, on-site service can be planned and carried out more efficiently before any errors occur. This results in considerable cost-savings, because the yellow signal does not have to entail a direct reaction, as it has to in case of the red one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With fiberview eks Engel presents a new monitoring system for converters of the d-light series Monitoring specified system budgets of fiber links is still a poor relation within fiber optic networks. A certain link attenuation, however, is normal and the result of the fibers&#8217; characteristics, the number of splices and the connectors used. Also environmental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}