Consultancy .

Fibre and cable makers.We can offer reliable support, based on many years experience, to companies making optical fibre and fibre based cables. We can help solve your issues involving both measurement and qualification techniques and assist you in the selection of test equipment for both optical and mechanical characterization. We have direct experience in fibre and cable making and ensuring that the product meets both national and international standards. We also offer advice for environmental and reliability testing to the relevant standards including test jig design and "best practices" for reliable and efficient production processes.

System Installers. Help can be given on key measurements and technologies and the impact on systems. This can be both telecommunications and data communication systems involving both singlemode and multimode fibre technologies. Further training can be supplied on installation and maintenance techniques by partner companies.

Fibre Sensing. The advantages of fibre optics in sensing applications has now become recognised with both distributed and point sensors being available. We have direct experience in these technologies and can help in all aspects. These include assistance in the choice of the best techniques and in the implementation.

Network Operators. We can offer advice on maximising the use of the optical fibre network, this is often limited by the PMD and Chromatic Dispersion characteristics. By careful design, capacities can be maximised by either operating at the highest possible bit rates or by the use of DWDM techniques.

Market Research.

Where a company is developing new products or applications we can provide independent market knowledge and also assist the company in contacting target customers for verifying market assumptions.

Seminars .

There are two approaches that can be taken. Firstly it can be profitable to provide to a company a basic knowledge of a subject. This could be aimed at a new market segment that the company wishes to enter or one that will have an impact on the development of current products. Secondly the development or implementation of new technologies can require that the knowledge base with the company be updated. Typical subjects that can be presented include the impact of upgrading to 40GBit operation, dispersion management for high bit rate systems (including PMD and Chromatic Dispersion) and the implications of operating at higher data rates for multimode fibre networks.