Fibre optic cables tested for free

Visitors to NXTcomm can take any standard fibre optic cable to the Timbercon booth for cleaning, testing, inspection and analysis - all free of charge.

Timbercon is teaming up with DORC (Direct Optical Research Company) and Westover Scientific to sponsor a special fibre optic cable testing and inspection event at the NXTcomm show in Chicago, 19th to 21st June 2007.

The event will provide show visitors a chance to get a standard fibre optic cable cleaned, tested, inspected and analysed with accompanying hard copy inspection report of the cable, all free of charge.

"Our goal in sponsoring this event is to provide delegates an opportunity to look at one of their own cables and better understand the attributes associated with its performance", comments John Lee, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Timbercon.

"Teaming with Westover Scientific and Direct Optical Research Company as sponsors for this event has enabled us to demonstrate cutting edge equipment, procedures and processes associated with cable testing, measurement and verification".

For each cable provided, Timbercon will properly clean the cable assembly, perform an end face inspection with a Westover inspection scope to check for scratches, pits and contamination.

Timbercon will then conduct an interferometry analysis using a DORC Interferometer to test for radius, apex offset, fibre height, angle, key error and fibre roughness inspection.

Finally, Timbercon will provide a hard copy report summary of the cable.

The free test and inspection event is open to all visitors to the NXTcomm 2007 show.

Simply bring a standard fibre optic cable assembly to Booth 6471 during exhibition hours and ask a Timbercon representative "how good is my cable?".

Each participant will receive an Armadillo loopback (single- or multimode) and be entered to win an Apple iPod.

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