Fibre to the Curb (FTTC) Technician
Price:
$1,250.00
Duration:
5 Days
Modes of Delivery:
- Classroom
Prerequisites:
Nil
Introduction
This course covers the knowledge and skills necessary to undertake Fibre to the Curb work. Participants will get hands-on experience in jointing copper cable using a variety of joints, as well as jumpering at a pillar and locating and identifying network faults.
Course Summary
- Health, safety and environment considerations
- Cable types, uses, recognition, pair colour coding
- Types and uses of joint enclosures
- Installing butt-ended jointing enclosures, for both new and maintenance style joints
- Conductor jointing
- Sealing practices
- Cable pair termination facilities (sockets, wall enclosures, distribution frames and CCU terminations and jumpering)
- Plan reading, cable pair and jumpering records
- Basic cable continuity testing
- Ohm’s law, impedance and reactance formulas to solve alternating current (AC) electrical problems when diagnosing faults
- Behaviour of faulty network elements, including symptoms and impact on network
- Interpretation of test results and network element/system specifications
- Operation and purpose of testing equipment
- Network performance testing and fault-finding techniques
- Systematic and logical fault-finding
- Network power sources
- Preparing a cabinet and termination frame, jumpering terminal blocks on frame and testing jumpering and seal closure
NBN SUITABILITY
The Units of Competency in this course may be suitable for work on the nbn network
Please check with your Delivery Partner for more information
Outcome:
ICTCBL254 Joint metallic conductor cable in access network
ICTTEN313 Work on and resolve recurrent network faults
ICTCBL320 Jumper metallic conductor cable in the access network
Course Dates & Locations
Our locations include Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Newcastle, Adelaide and Perth. We also travel to other major cities and regional centres throughout Australia including Darwin, Canberra, Hobart, Townsville, Rockhampton, Mackay and the Gold Coast. In-house training is available on request.