FiberOptic CABLE Research and

Development

An Overview

12/8/21
Outline

• Background on ‘FiberOptic CABLE Research and Development’

• Why Automation?
• Physical Layout
• Program Architecture
• Features
• Benefits
• Demo
Background on ‘FiberOptic CABLE Research and
Development’
Why Test Automation?

Test Automation takes care of the following current challenges:

• Need for controlling up to five environmental chambers

simultaneously, while sharing the resource of the single mode OTDR
• Human intervention / monitoring at each step of the testing process
• Time spent in tabulation of the readings and report generation
• Time spent in troubleshooting or diagnostics of the setup
• Human error in the tabulation of the readings, result, report
• Inadequate usage of setup (used only during day time)
Physical Layout
Program Architecture
Features offered by the automation tool ‘LabVIEW’

• Connection Interface: Ethernet, Serial cable and GPIB

• Configuration: Configuration of the different parameters of all the
connected equipments through the GUI
• Diagnostics: Troubleshooting and diagnostics of the setup or result
through email notification and message pop ups on the application
window
• Performance: Capable of running multiple tests of different profiles for
multiple test cables
• Reports: Generates automated reports in the required format based
on the auto captured readings for different profiles
• Security: Authentication and Authorization for application login

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Benefits

• No human interference in the execution until the application asks for

any
• No manual reading of the OTDR data
• 24/7 usage of the setup
• Email notification to the ‘intended audience’ for troubleshooting and
diagnostics
• Concurrent execution of multiple tests
• Saves lot time for execution, diagnostics, reports and analysis
• Fast, accurate and reliable
Demo
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