Recently we started doing a lot of work with SM fiber uplinks to long distance building. Due to amount of staff and current skill set, we rely on a contractor for running, termination, and testing of fiber links. This obviously comes at a cost. When there's faults we typically d basic troubleshooting - change transceivers, patch cables, use new pair of fiber from tray, or try it in a new switch - as you can see this can be tedious. At this point we are interested in procuring an OTDR Fiber Tester that can support SM (GPON would be good). MM testing would be good since we rely on MM fiber between racks (would be nice, but not a must).
Does it make sense getting an AIO solution that can support MM, SM, and GPON?
Budget: Depends - we don't want something cheap and unreliable, but something that doesn't break the bank and reliable.
There are countless vendors and I'd like some recommendations on vendors.
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