UOSP - Uniprise Certified Outside Plant Specialist Program

Classroom Based Course:

To become a Uniprise Certified Outside Plant Specialist, installers/technicians must have successfully completed either this 4-day instructor led OR the online SPOSP standards-based training course. This program is standards-based training designed to assure that the installer/technician is qualified to properly install CommScope Outside Plant (OSP) Fiber Cabling Products. This program is based on ANSI/TIA/EIA-568 and 758 and the NESC requirements for OSP installations. Participants are instructed on proper techniques for planning, placing, terminating, and testing fiber media used in the Outside Plant Structured Cabling System.

Course Objective:

Students undertaking this course will receive high quality training based on current industry codes, standards, regulations and methodologies, and will be able to apply the principles of cable placement and termination, splicing, and testing of optical fiber using products manufactured or endorsed by CommScope

Module Overview

1. CommScope Product Overview: An introduction to the CommScope optical fiber product line.
2. Warranty Overview: An overview of the CommScope product warranty
3. Right-of Way This module is designed to give the student an overview of the right-of-way identification and acquisition process as well as some of the dos and don’ts associated with the process. Also included is a discussion of the different types of damages as well as restoration requirements.
4. Outside Plant to Inside Plant Conversion A discussion of the code requirements for the transition of outside (non-listed) cable to inside (listed) cable.
5. Safety Subjects covered include outside plant general safety requirements. Included are confined space requirements, weather considerations, marking of utilities, and separation criteria for underground, buried, and aerial placement of cable
6. Placing This module is designed to acquaint the student with the methods used to place aerial, underground, and direct buried cable.
7. Optical fiber theory Optical fiber theory. The principals of internal reflection, refraction, angle of acceptance, attenuation, and dispersion.
8. Terminations – Methods and procedures Methods and procedures for terminating the ST, SC, and LC anaerobic connectors. Lab. – For the duration of the course the labs are designed to be progressive in nature. The class is divided into teams of two. One is issued a piece of OSP armored cable and the other a piece of non-armored cable. The team will: a. Prepare both cables for the direct placement of connectors to include sheath removal and placement of the breakout kit on each cable and bonding of the armored cable. b. Termination of two SC, ST, and LC connectors on each cable.
9. Splicing – Methods and procedures Methods and procedures for a mid-sheath splice. Lab – the students will prepare the armored and non-armored cables for the placement of a lateral splice. Procedures include mid-sheath entry, preparation of the cable for use of the 'B' closure, mid-tube entry, and splicing specified fibers by both mechanical and fusion splicing methods.
10. Testing and Troubleshooting – Methods and Procedures
    1. Testing of the optical fiber connectors using the interferometer to test each connector.
    2. Testing of the passive link using the visual fault locator (VFL), the optical loss test set
11. Assessment exam – 50 question multiple choice exam

BICSI CEC's: Applied For

Certificate valid for 3 years