[AusNOG] Why you should clean fibre..

[Kim Pearce]

Nice write up thanks for sharing James - some pretty cool micrograph pics.
And great advice about keeping fibre out from underneath rolling office
chairs.

I do disagree with some points though:

I'm not sold on the idea of cleaning transceivers or female receptacles as
a matter of practice though, if a transceiver is suspect surely you'd just
swap it out... right? The recommendations to use cotton swabs seems a bit
off - lint and threads can't be good.

Me? I'll just be sure to keep things clean and cap unused transceivers and
connectors - test runs for light loss
http://www.flukenetworks.com/Expertise/Learn-About/Fiber-Testing and if
testing indicates I should try to clean, I'll follow the FOAs advice
http://www.thefoa.org/tech/ref/termination/cleaning.html

After all, the FOA has certified over *9000* techs and have nice and
crunchy jpegs on their website.



On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 9:13 PM, James Braunegg <james.braunegg at micron21.com
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> If you are interested in why you should clean fibre patch leads / SFPs
> each time you use them read below link… Awesome article.
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