What is BS EN 61300-2-9 - Fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components about?
BS EN 61300 is a series on fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components. Fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components is a fibre optic telecommunications technology for delivering broadband network access to end customers. BS EN 61300-2-9 defines a test method to reveal mechanical weakness and/or degradation of fibre optic devices when subjected to repetitive or non-repetitive mechanical shocks. BS EN 61300-2-9 simulates infrequent repetitive or non-repetitive shocks likely to be encountered in normal service or during transportation.
Who is BS EN 61300-2-9 - Fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components for?
BS EN 61300-2-9 on fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components is useful for:
- Telecommunication equipment manufacturers
- Telecommunication component manufacturers
- Design engineers
- Quality control personnel
Why should you use BS EN 61300-2-9 - Fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components?
Fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components architecture implement a point-to-multipoint topology in which a single optical fibre serves multiple endpoints by using unpowered (passive) fibre optic splitters to divide the fibre bandwidth among the endpoints. BS EN 61300-2-9 specifies initial examinations and measurements and performance requirements, examinations and measurements during test and performance requirements, final examinations and measurements and performance requirements, deviations from the test procedure, additional pass/fail criteria, and test conditions of fibre optic devices.
A device under test (DUT) is mounted on the table of the shock machine and is subjected to half-sinusoidal shock pulses. The device under test is exposed to two or three shock pulses applied in each direction of three mutually perpendicular axes in accordance with severities. Wherever possible, the severity of the pulse applied to the device under test should be such as to reproduce the effects of the actual transport or operational environment to which the device under test will be subjected, or to satisfy the design requirements. The device under test is always mounted to the fixture or the table of the shock machine during testing. The shock machine may be of the free fall, resilient rebound, non-resilient, hydraulic, compressed gas or another activating type. The shock machine is capable of generating a calibrated acceleration when loaded with a device under test, with or without a fixture. The shock machine is capable of generating a half-sinusoidal excitation measured at the checkpoints, within the tolerance showed by the solid lines in BS EN 61300-2-9. Using BS EN 61300-2-9 you can define a test method to reveal mechanical weakness and/or degradation of fibre optic devices when subjected to repetitive or non-repetitive mechanical shocks.
What’s changed since the last update?
BS EN 61300-2-9:2017 supersedes BS EN 61300-2-9:2010. BS EN 61300-2-9:2017 includes some technical and editorial changes with respect to BS EN 61300-2-9:2010. These include:
- Inserted clause "Terms and definitions"
- Added precise descriptions to clause "Apparatus"
- Added sub-clause "Testing" into clause "Procedure"
- Added "Bibliography"
