| Prelude......1
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| OTDR - A Widely Used Diagnostic Equipment in Fiber Optic Industry......1
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| OTDR - Classification......2
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| Full-feature OTDRs......2
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| Fiber Break Locators......2
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| Handheld OTDRs......2
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| Remote Test Units (RTUs)......2
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| Micro OTDRs......3
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| Integrated Intelligence of Micro OTDRs......3
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| TDRs vs. OTDRs......3
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| Key Terminology......4
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| OTDR Settings......4
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| Measurement Events......4
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| Limitations of OTDRs......5
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| Entails Skilled Technicians......5
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| Low Accuracy in Single-end Testing......5
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| High Cost of Equipment......5
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| LAN Environments......5
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| Physical Location of Events......5
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| Variation in Take up Factor......6
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| Variation in Reflective Index......6
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| Product Segmentation......6
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| Livingston Inks Agreement with Teligence......7
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| Test Equipment Connection Inks Agreement with Terahertz Technologies......7
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| Excalibur Engineering and AFL Introduce Excalibur Engineering Leasing Program......8
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| Huawei Technologies Unveils eODTR Prototype......8
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| AFL Unveils NOYES FLX380 FlexTester ODTR Range......8
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| AFL Launches NOYES® Test and Inspection Equipment and Cleaning Products Catalogs in Chinese......9
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| AFL Unveils NOYES® M210 OTDR ......9
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| EXFO Introduces FG-750 Node iOLM ODTR for Automated FTTH Fault Management......9
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| Fluke Networks Introduces OptiFiber™ Pro OTDR......10
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| SurplusEQ.com Announces Availability of Newly Calibrated OTDRs......10
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| Yokogawa Introduces New OTDR Models......10
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| Yokogawa Meters & Instruments Unveils AQ1200B and AQ1200C Multi Field Testers......11
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| Trilithic Introduces TFS-2000™ Series OTDRs......11
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| Aeroflex, Inc. (USA)......12
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| AFL (USA)......12
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| Aitelong Technology Co., Ltd. (China)......12
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| Alcatel-Lucent (France)......12
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| Alpha Link Technology (UAE)......12
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| Anderson Corporation (Australia)......13
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| Anritsu Corporation (Japan)......13
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| Beijing Lixingweiye Science & Technology Development Co., Ltd. (China)......13
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| Corning Cable Systems (USA)......13
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| Digital Lightwave, Inc. (USA)......14
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| Exfiber Optical Technologies Co., Ltd. (China)......14
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| EXFO, Inc. (Canada)......14
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| EZŽ komunikacijski izdelki d.o.o. (Slovenia)......14
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| Fluke Corporation (USA)......15
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| Fluke Networks (USA)......15
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| Fujikura Europe Ltd. (UK)......15
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| Grantwave Communications Ltd. (China)......15
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| Hewlett-Packard Development Company LP (USA)......15
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| Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (China)......16
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| Ideal Industries, Inc. (USA)......16
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| JDS Uniphase Corporation (USA)......16
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| Kingfisher International Pty., Ltd. (Australia)......16
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| L-com, Inc. (USA)......17
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| Legend Corporation Ltd. (Australia)......17
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| Mantaro Product Development Services®, Inc. (USA)......17
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| Megger Group Ltd. (UK)......17
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| Microwave Telecom Technology Co., Ltd. (China)......17
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| Mikrokom Sro (Czech Republic)......18
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| Nanjing Jilong Optical Communication Co., Ltd. (China)......18
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| NanoTronix Co., Ltd. (Korea)......18
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| Optec Communications Tech Co., Ltd. (China)......18
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| Optokon AS (Czech Republic)......18
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| Opwill Technologies (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (China)......18
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| Photon Kinetics, Inc. (USA)......19
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| PiMON GmbH (Germany)......19
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| PolarLink Technologies Ltd. (Taiwan)......19
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| Precision Rated Optics (USA)......19
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| Qingdao E-jiaxun Optical & Electrical Info Co., Ltd. (China)......19
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| Radiantech, Inc. (Taiwan)......20
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| Shanghai Yuwei Electronic Tech. Co., Ltd. (China)......20
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| Shenzhen Nufiber Systems Technologies Co., Ltd. (China)......20
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| ShinewayTech (China)......20
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| Spiktel Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (India)......21
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| Techwin (China) Industry Co., Ltd. (China)......21
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| Tektronix, Inc. (USA)......21
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| Terahertz Technologies, Inc. (USA)......21
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| Trilithic, Inc. (USA)......22
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| V Tech Communications (India)......22
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| VeEX, Inc. (USA)......22
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| Vierling Communication (France)......22
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| Wilcom, Inc. (USA)......23
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| Winyuan Technology Co., Ltd. (China)......23
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| Yokogawa Measurement Technologies Ltd. (UK)......23
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| Zhizun Foresight Electronics Co., Ltd. (China)......23
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