Fiber Optic Installation Text For Installers And Students

Pearson Technologies Inc., a 26-year fiber optic training, technical and marketing consulting firm, announces the availability of Successful Fiber Optic Network Installation- The Essentials. This 314-page, comprehensive field handbook and training text contains the detailed information and instructions installers need to install fiber optic cable systems successfully. In addition, this book contains all the knowledge required to pass all of the Fiber Optic Association [FOA] certification examinations.  
 
Successful installation means low power loss, low installation cost and high reliability. The subtitle, The Essentials, arose from the author�s observation that high power loss, high installation cost and reduced reliability arise consistently when there is a lack of the specific and extensive knowledge presented in the text. In short, the goal of the book is to provide the knowledge essential to the installer�s success.  
 
The twenty-four chapters of this book are organized into three parts. These three parts cover the installation process in extensive detail. This detail includes 468 figures and photographs, troubleshooting sections for all procedures, and photographs of the steps of the installation activities.  
 
This book serves as an excellent training text in that each chapter of the first two parts includes review questions. This book serves as an excellent field text in that each chapter in Part 3 includes both a one-page summary of the installation steps and a troubleshooting guide. The troubleshooting guides enable the field installer to identify causes of problems and to take appropriate corrective actions.  
 
Pearson Technologies Inc. developed this book from its 24 years of experience in fiber optic communications, from its installation activities, which include more than 38,000 connectors, and from its experience training more than 6800 people in basic and advanced fiber optic installation skills.  
 
This book is a major update to and expansion of the first published fiber optic installation book, The Complete Guide To Fiber Optic Cable System Installation [Eric R. Pearson, Delmar 1997]. This new book includes changes in products and procedures that have occurred since the publication of this first book. In addition, this book includes a significant refinement of the installation procedures presented in the earlier book. This refinement improves the ability of the trainee to achieve success during the installation processes.  
Mr. Eric R. Pearson, author of this book, is the only fiber optic consultant in North America certified as Professional Consultant, an Editorial Advisor to Fiberoptic Product News, and a Director of the Fiber Optic Association. Mr. Pearson is President of Pearson Technologies Inc.  
 
This book in print. Copies in .PDF form are available for review by schools wishing to use this book as a training text. An instructor�s guide with answers to the review questions and with cross references for the CFOT and CFOS certification examinations is available. In addition, PowerPoint slide shows of the first fourteen chapters are available to training schools. For more information on this highly useful and practical book, visit http://www.ptnowire.com/SFOIweb_adv.htm  
or contact Pearson Technologies Inc. at: 4671 Hickory Bend Drive, Acworth, GA 30102, at (800) 589-2549, (770) 591-8921, at FAX (509) 693-5670  
or via e-mail at fiberguru@ptnowire.com.