This three-day class has been developed with 16 hours of classroom lecture and 8 hours of hands-on skills labs to provide practical understanding of the principles behind building and maintaining high-speed optical networks. Key critical parameters such as polarization mode dispersion (PMD), chromatic dispersion (CD), and optical return loss (ORL) need to be calculated in order to evaluate system capabilities and network upgrades to higher bit rate systems.

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