wiredInUSA February 2017

Learning opportunities for 2017

Light Brigade, AFL’s trainingandeducation division, is partnering with Fiber Insight to offer two new course options for design and engineering customers: certified optical network associate (CONA) and certified fiber characterization engineer (CFCE). CONA is an intermediate level course, teaching the techniques for optimum system design and how performance can be affected by the fiber infrastructure. CFCE is an advanced course that focuses on the tests required to verify that network infrastructures can support future, high data rate applications.

“Teaming up with Fiber Insight allows us to bring two rigorous, five-day technical courses to our customers this year,” said Lee Kellett, general manager of Light Brigade. “With the growth in higher speed networks, there is great need for these types of courses. The CFCE and CONA courses are licensed by OTT in the UK and are very well respected around the world.” The first CONA course is scheduled at Light Brigade’s Seattle training center in February and the next CFCE class will be at the Lowell, MA, facility in April. The classes are open and anyone can register to attend.

wiredInUSA - February 2017

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