One problem with OTDRs is that you sacrifice resolution to test for distance. In other words, if you can see a splice on an event at 30 miles, there’s a very good chance that you won’t be seeing anything at 30 feet, and vice versa.
EXFO’s intelligent Optical Link Mapper (iOLM) is an OTDR-based application that gets around these limitations by performing multiple acquisitions using multiple pulse widths, and reports back results in an easy-to-understand format.
During this webcast we’ll show you: