One of our high profile locations was to assist final fiber optic cable installation and troubleshooting at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, home of the World Champions LA Lakers, Clippers, Kings, and Avengers.

Another of our successful programs is fiber optic hands on training. It can be a two or three day course. Theory, fiber optic background information, equipment hands on, and a short examination are part of the course. We've been doing this class for the past 10 years, including customers such as City of Los Angeles, DOA; Pacific Bell; GTE; City & County of Honolulu; State of Hawaii, DOE and DOT/H3.

We have also done projects in "foreign" environments. This is a famous volcano where we did high altitude fiber fusion splicing. Not many fusion splicers work at this altitude and in fact we had to tweak and shim the electrodes to get the splicing done.

Here we are working on long haul fiber going between islands in Hawaii. Not many testers can do OTDR, optical return loss, insertion loss, polarization mode distortion, and optical spectrum analysis in a single unit. Thanks to Glenn Takahashi of GTE Hawaiian Telephone for being in our picture. We provided complete fiber documentation for this project consisting of OTDR traces, PMD readings, ORL readings, and detailed insertion loss data for the 1550 nm wavelength.

This goes back to 1989 where we assisted introducing the first mass fiber fusion splicer to the GTE folks on the Cerritos Project. See Paul Raine hard at work. This new technology required forming ribbons from loose tube fibers and then fusing 12 fibers together at one time. We had visitors from Japan assisting on this project.

More splicing associated with the Cerritos Project. Here is a splice tray with ribbon splices positioned in the tray. By the time we completed the project, the crews were able to splice over 288 fibers in a single 8 hour work day.

As you can see our work also includes getting out in the field and getting our hands into the work. We won't say whose "___" this is showing, however, be assured that we got the job done. In this project we trained new technicians the finer points of fusion splicing.