Publisher's Synopsis
A follow up work on previous books, this edition speaks about exsiting standards for inspection and cleaning a fiber optic connection. Current standards are important, but also outdated at the time they are published. For rapidly evolving industries such as fiber optics, an existing standard can take five to seven years of expert input and then is in place for as long as ten years. For industries such as fiber optic high speed and ever increasing capacities if these standards are not outdated at the time they are published, surely they are at the end of their ten year life cycle! This book discusses various cleaning methods and procedures and proposes a new type standard that may be applicable and important for all such industries. The work goes on to discuss "best practice" in a way to "future proof" one of the most critical functions of a fiber optic deployment: testing which has accuracy in the actual cleaning process. The work has an open-ended invitation to all readers to participate in this new standards process which can begin as an Internet "blog" and then be approved by Subject Matter Experts before annual updates after an initial publication. Based on valuable existing standards, the author projects a six month time frame to initiate this new "Rapid Technology Standard".
