"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls".
Pablo Picasso
Well........in the numerous fibre optic courses that I have delivered over the years, I recount a simple story to try and get across to delegates the importance of keeping the end face of a connector clean!
And it goes something like this........your invited around to your Mum and Dad's house for the ritual of eating the family Sunday Roast.........in you go to the house and of course, you are delighted to see your Mum and Dad.....its a sunny day.........the cabbage has been on the stove for hours.....you get the picture.........all you want to do is catch up on the latest football scores..........so in you go into the living room......the sun is streaming in through the window......and you relax into the sofa....and you place your arm onto the arm of the sofa.......what do you see........DUST!!
OK....its a bit over sentimental a picture I have painted here....but it is true....we are surrounded by dust....we are breathing micron sized dust particles all the time and these dust particles represent a major source of problems for fibre optic end faces, especially MTP/MPO's.......
So whats do you do.....you institute a cleaning system so that end face connector inspections are the norm and not the exception.
I am amazed at times, as to the general lack of appreciation as to the importance of this aspect of the fibre network.....
Inspect - is it clean.....then clean the connector end face......then re inspect and don't forget to inspect ALL end faces not just the patch cord !!!!
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