Optical Diagnostics and Troubleshooting
Ways to learn:
Instructor-led | Self-study materials | Learning labs
Course overview
This course provides students with the knowledge and hands-on skills required to troubleshoot and resolve Nokia photonic nodes' issues using direct web and command line interfaces. Participants will learn optical signal flow through a node using the Nokia 1830 Engineering and Planning Tool (EPT) reports for consistency analysis, retrieving optical power data and current alarms/conditions, troubleshooting and repairing a transmission, and system/optical transponder faults. The course includes extensive hands-on lab exercises to ensure students acquire practical skills on the topics presented.
Ways to learn
Instructor-led
Virtual delivery with live instruction and hands-on labs.
Course number: TOP00007
Duration: 4 days
Price: €3,600 (regional discounts may be available)
Self-study materials
Access the same materials from the hands-on course in a secure PDF format.
Course number: TOP00007-M-2108
Duration: N/A
Price: €450 (regional discounts may be available)
Course objectives
After completing the course, students should be able to:
- Leverage Nokia resources (e.g. Product Support Portal) for product documentation and information
- Describe the optical signal flow through an 1830 PSS node
- Explain different amplifier configurations, including unidirectional/bidirectional amplifiers; ingress amplification only; ingress and egress amplification; CDC-F v.1; CDC-F v.2
- Describe how Raman amplification works with Erbium Doped Fiber Amplification
- Locate configured span information between nodes
- Locate commissioning data in EPT reports and compare with the actual nodal configuration
- Locate the nodal schematic view in EPT and compare with the actual nodal configuration
- Describe active alarms and conditions
- Retrieve active alarms and conditions in WebUI and CLI
- Generate and export alarms, conditions and logs to Excel
- Recognize important types of Performance Monitoring measurements (PMs)
- Retrieve PMs in WebUI and CLI
- Configure loopbacks to isolate a fault
- Understand 1830 PSS-32 power management settings
- Configure power management settings for troubleshooting
- Describe and troubleshoot important power-related alarms and messages
- Perform manual power adjustments
- Troubleshoot power adjustment failures
- Trace a service along an optical path, through several interfaces within and beyond a node
- Perform in-depth channel power monitoring
- Recognize Wavelength Tracker (WT) detection points on a block diagram
- Detect wave key sources within a node
- Detect unexpected or missing channels
- Determine which alarms are raised in a fiber cut situation
- Detect unidirectional and bidirectional fiber cuts
- Describe the OTDR card
- Calculate span loss between two nodes and compare to designed span loss
- Identify Optical Supervisory Channel (OSC) information and alarms
- Troubleshoot common OSC issues
- Identify and resolve transponder configuration issues
- Identify and resolve Forward Error Correction (FEC) configuration issues
- Identify and resolve payload type and encapsulation mode issues
- Identify and resolve fiber connection issues through the Trail Trace Identifier (TTI)
Prerequisites
Nokia Optical Networking Fundamentals
Alternatively, familiarity with the following topics:
- Optical transmission concepts (e.g., optical fiber types, WDM functional blocks, etc.), equipment and protection schemes
- Familiarity with standard optical node architectures (e.g., FOADM, ROADM, CDC-F)
Course modules
- Module 1 – Documentation and Support Information
- Module 2 – Optical Signal Flow
- Module 3 – EPT report parameters
- Module 4 – Alarms, conditions and logs
- Module 5 – Performance monitoring and loopbacks for troubleshooting
- Module 6 – Transmission and power adjustment troubleshooting techniques
- Module 7 – Wavelength Tracker
- Module 8 – Line issues troubleshooting and alarm correlation
- Module 9 – Optical Transponder configuration troubleshooting
My Nokia Optical Lab
My Nokia Optical Lab is designed for optical professionals that need access to an optical lab. The service offers flexible scheduling, and labs are available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Labs are reserved, and you can cancel your reservation within twenty-four hours if your schedule changes. The service is designed and managed by experts from the Nokia Optical Network Certification team and provides an ideal solution for a variety of needs.
