Ciena 6200 - Inspecting and Cleaning Optical Interface Internal Connectors and Fiber

Cleaning connectors 9-3
6200 Packet-Optical Platform Installation, Commissioning, and Testing Procedures
Release 1.1 009-6200-201 Draft Issue 1
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Procedure 9-1
Inspecting and cleaning optical interface internal
connectors and fiber
Use this procedure to inspect and clean the optical interface.
Prerequisites
• Make sure you have a fiber microscope.
• Ensure that you have the following fiber cleaning material:
— 1.25 mm optical swabs
— isopropyl alcohol, 90% concentration or more must be used
Action
Step Action
1 Wear an antistatic wrist strap to protect the shelf from static damage. Connect
the wrist strap to an available earth point.
2 Determine your next step.
3 Loosen one of the two fiber-optic cable from the circuit pack to provide
enough slack.
4 Disconnect the fiber-optic cables from the circuit pack.
5 Determine your next step.
6 Remove the protective caps from the adapter housing. Store the caps in a
clean ESD plastic bag until cleaning of the adapter housing and alignment
sleeve is complete.
7 Insert a new, clean optical swab into the connector sleeve. Use a 1.25 mm
optical swab. While rotating the swab in one direction,remove the swab from
connector sleeve. If necessary, repeat this step with a new, clean optical
swab. Inspect the port and verify that is it clean and free of impurities.
Note: If you are not using the optical port immediately, install a clean dust
cap.
—end—
If fiber-optic cables Then go to
are connected to the circuit pack step 3
are not connected to the circuit pack step 5
If there are Then go to
protective caps on the connector sleeve step 6
no protective caps on the connector sleeve step 7