Fibre-optic communication subsystem test procedures Installed cable plant. Single-mode attenuation and optical return loss measurement

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English

Published date

31-10-2014

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British Standards Institution

This part of IEC61280 is applicable to the measurement of attenuation and optical return loss of installed optical fibre cable plant using single-mode fibre. This cable plant can include single-mode optical fibres, connectors, adapters, splices and other passive devices. The cabling may be installed in a variety of environments including residential, commercial, industrial and data centre premises, as well as outside plant environments. This standard may be applied to all single-mode fibre types including those designated by IEC60793‑2‑50 as Class B fibres. The principles of this standard may be applied to cable plants containing branching devices (splitters) and at specific wavelength ranges in situations where passive wavelength selective components are deployed, such as WDMs, CWDM and DWDM devices. This standard is not intended to apply to cable plant that includes active devices such as fibre amplifiers or dynamic channel equalizers.

Committee	GEL/86/3
DevelopmentNote	Supersedes 96/208739 DC. (01/2006) Supersedes 10/30240050 DC. (10/2014)
DocumentType	Standard
Pages	80
PublisherName	British Standards Institution
Status	Current
Supersedes	96/208739 DC : DRAFT JUL 1996 BS EN 61280-4-2:2000 10/30240050 DC : DRAFT DEC 2010

Standards	Relationship
NF EN 61280-4-2 : 2015	Identical
EN 61280-4-2:2014	Identical
IEC 61280-4-2:2014	Identical
SN EN 61280-4-2:2014	Identical
DIN EN 61280-4-2 : 2015	Identical

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