Ciena 6200 - Cleaning Optical Connectors and Adapters on Patch Cords

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9-4 Cleaning connectors

6200 Packet-Optical Platform Installation, Commissioning, and Testing Procedures

Release 1.1 009-6200-201 Draft Issue 1

2014 Ciena

Corporation September 2014

Procedure 9-2

Cleaning optical connectors and adapters on patch

cords

Use this procedure to clean LC optical connectors or adapters on patch cords.

Note: Clean all connectors and universal adapters inside and outside the

circuit pack before installation. To clean connectors and adapters inside

circuit packs, see Procedure 9-1, Inspecting and cleaning optical interface

internal connectors and fiber.

Prerequisites

• Make sure you have a fiber microscope with 1.25 mm adapter for LC

connectors.

• Ensure that you have the following fiber cleaning material:

— cleaning cassette (as required)

— lint free tissues

— 1.25 mm optical swabs

— isopropyl alcohol, 90% concentration or more must be used

Action

Step Action

Disconnecting the fiber-optic patch cord

1 Wear an antistatic wrist strap to protect the shelf from static damage. Connect

the wrist strap to an available earth point.

2 Loosen one of the two optical patch cords from the shelf fiber-optic guides to

provide enough slack.

3 Disconnect the optical patch cord from the circuit pack.

Note: The connectors are LC, the plastic snap-in type with RJ-45 style latch.

See Figure 9-1 on page 9-8.

Inspecting the optical connector

4 Insert the fiber-optic into the fiber microscope adapter.

5 Turn on the light in the fiber microscope.

DANGER

Risk of personal injury

Ensure there is no laser light in the fiber-optic cable that

you want to scope.