Jim Hayes opens the first session of Fiber U 1993 in Long Beach CA. (C) 2011, The FOA.
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Eric Pearson lectures to all the attendees (~225) at the Long beach Fiber U.
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A smaller classroom session at a Fiber U in Boston.
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Conference rooms became packed classrooms. Here Doug Elliott from Toronto lectures on testing.
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Jim Hayes teaches about optical fiber.
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Hands-on sessions have smaller groups learning the processes of installing fiber, like termination.
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Each attendee has the tools and supplies needed to properly learn the skills needed for successful installation.
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Dick Scheer of Northern Lights Cable brings a complete pulling rig with conduit and innerduct, plus enough cable for all attendees to work with.
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And NLC brought cables of many types so the students would learn the differences in construction, pulling processes and preparation.
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And NLC brought cables of many types so the students would learn the differences in construction, pulling processes and preparation.
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Good motto!
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A large ballroom was turned into a demo room with manufactures connecting into an actual operating network to demo splicing and testing.
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Hardware on demo was usually connected into the network. We even had a CCTV camera monitoring the OSP work in the tent outside.
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Companies brought racks of equipment to show attendees how the final product should look.
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Let's splice into the Fiber U backbone, then test it.
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We even had sessions on "Cat 5" for the attendees interested in premises cabling.
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Outdoors we set up a tent for the OSP manufacturers to teach students how to use their produces.
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We ahd plenty of space so students could learn how to handle cable properly, like this "figure 8" session.
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With lots of room, we could actually assemble conduit, run innerduct, figure 8 cable and pull it into the ducts, building an actual fiber backbone in the hotel.
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Students were shown all the types of tools used with fiber and taught how to use most of them.
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Brad Pelsue brought OSP pulling gear to teach students how to pull cable properly.
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You need lots of space for some of the OSP gear.
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Polywater ran sessions on cable lubrication - messy but necessary!
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Small groups ensures that every student gets a chance to work with the gear.
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Manufacturers brought large splice closures to let students learn how to properly run cables into the closures.
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Dan Silver of 3M had several large closures for students to work with.
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The tent allowed enough room to show how conduit was placed.
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Fiber U had a large international presence. Here are the attendees at Long Beach, representing countries as far away as Russia!
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Lennie Lightwave was created as the mascot of Fiber U in 1993. He has been described as "the most famous guy in fiber optics!"
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Lennie was used to illustrate many of the Fiber U training documents, like this illustration for fiber optic testing.
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