As a freelance expert, Manfred Patzke has been offering consulting, planning support (e.g. preparation of specifications), expert opinions and quality assurance during construction in the field of communication cable systems as well as equipotential bonding and grounding systems since 2005.
Manfred Patzke has been an active member of national and international standardization committees since 1998 and is therefore involved in the development of standards relevant to these fields.
With the MaPaCom seminars, Manfred Patzke has been offering training courses on topics such as application-neutral communication cable systems as well as potential equalization and grounding since 2005. The focus of the training courses is on strengthening quality awareness and communicating current changes to standards.
Fiber Optic Systems
An estimated 90 percent of the measurements used to check fiber optic cabling are inadequate and therefore unusable. As a result of incorrect measuring equipment, measuring methods and evaluation approaches, numerous installations are simply "nicely measured", but do not correspond to the quality that should result from the installed components.
As a consequence, installation errors are not detected and the real performance of the cabling is not available, which also often makes a later migration of the application impossible.
The lecture shows how to do it correctly on the basis of the specifications from the standards EN 50173 1 "Application-neutral communication cable systems" and DIN ISO/IEC 14763 3 "Measurement of fiber optic cabling".