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StandardsOTT’s level of technical expertise in fibre optics is unrivalled amongst telecoms training companies. This expertise feeds directly into the quality of our training ensuring that all course materials are fully up-to-date with the latest developments in the standards and in industry.Our standards knowledge and expertise is also available to companies on a consultancy basis through our Technical Director, Richard Ednay.Richard Ednay, Technical Director of OTT, has 26 years of experience in fibre optics and set up OTT in 1989. He is a well-known expert throughout the fibre optics industry both in the UK and internationally, regularly attending ECOC and OFC technical conferences. Richard is heavily involved in International Standards setting in fibre optics.Richard is Chairman of the BSI GEL 86/3 committee on 'Fibre optic systems and active devices'. He is nominated as the UK's Principal Expert on IEC SC86C Working Group 1 - 'Fibre optics communications systems and subsystems'. In the IEC he has taken on project leader responsibilities for updating the standards on attenuation, return loss and PMD testing of installed singlemode cabling.Due to Richard's broad base of expertise in fibre optics that embraces multimode and singlemode, datacoms and telecoms; he was appointed to act as liaison between two standards groups: IEC SC86C that deals with Fibre Optic Systems and ISO/IEC JTC1 SC25 Working Group 3 that deals with customer premises cabling. This latter working group is the one responsible for the well known ISO/IEC11801 Generic Cabling standard. In 2008 Richard was a recipient of the IEC’s prestigious 1906 Award for his outstanding contribution to the development of International Standards in fibre optics.Richard is also on BSI GEL 86/1 (fibres and cables) and GEL86/2 (connectors and passive devices) and TCT7/-/1 (premises cabling). OTT has been an Associate Member of ITU-T Study Group 15 and Richard was responsible for updating the ITU-T Recommendations on fibre characterisation (G.650.3). Richard is also on the USA-TIA standards committees on fibre optics and their task group developing a new FOTP on PMD test methods. |
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