react-networks-lib.rackout.net
Splice a Fibre
It's interactive, try and splice one! Written in react, it's moderately heavy and not entirely mobile optimised.
It's interactive, try and splice one! Written in react, it's moderately heavy and not entirely mobile optimised.
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The hardest thing about splicing fiber is not splicing fiber(at least not anymore) It's cable management and routing to keep things from kinking and breaking while accounting for cable flexing, thermal expansion, and unforseen circumstances like another company lashing their cables to yours for vertical support. All while maintaining future serviceability
I was a fiber installer once upon a time in the 00s. A guy I worked with who was "the splicer" for our team and has years of experience using the little easy bake oven thing swore by going off the smell to know when it's "ready". Probably not the greatest thing for your health considering he did at least 10-12 of these a day.
This would be a perfect plugin for Netbox! (https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox)
We were splicing some fiberglass in job training a few years back and it was honestly pretty cool! The website is also really nice, I remember seeing the color codes on the splicing machine. Mesmerizing piece of technology.
In an old job I spliced a lot of fibre for our research, got the hang of it and got pretty proficient. My research shifted, and I start making sensors using fibre and similarly sized capillary tube. It all got cleaved, spliced to assemble, cleaved some more, spliced again, then polished to spec. Getting the he process down was a pain, but the results were super satisfying.