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Modern networks are under pressure from AI workloads, cloud services, video traffic, broadband growth, data center interconnects, and high-capacity enterprise applications. Optical networks form the transport foundation that carries this demand across cities, regions, campuses, and access networks.
This course is designed for students and professionals who want to understand how real fiber and optical networks are planned, designed, tested, maintained, optimized, and documented beyond textbook theory.
The course covers practical optical engineering concepts across fiber fundamentals, DWDM transport, OTN, FTTH / PON access networks, optical budgets, fiber testing, and GIS-based fiber planning. Learners will use accessible tools, structured handouts, and project-based examples to build practical understanding of how optical networks support modern communication infrastructure.
Duration
17 Weeks
Format
Online / In Person (Plano, TX)
For Students
$599
For Professionals
$799
Learning Style
Practical · Design-Driven
Engineering students interested in telecom, fiber optics, broadband, or network infrastructure
Fresh graduates preparing for fiber, optical, FTTH, or network engineering roles
Working professionals moving into optical network planning or fiber design
Field engineers who want to understand optical design, testing, and documentation
Industries You Can Work In
Relevant Job Roles
You will learn how to understand, plan, document, and support practical fiber and optical network scenarios across broadband, telecom, enterprise, data center, and infrastructure environments.
Plan Basic Fiber Links
Understand how fiber links connect buildings, campuses, data centers, and telecom sites using optical power budgets.
Select a module to see what it covers, a practical example, the key concepts you will learn, and the tools and outputs involved.
Fiber optic networking uses light signals to carry data through glass fiber cables — the foundation of modern telecom, broadband, data center, and infrastructure networks. This module covers how fiber links work and how engineers calculate whether an optical signal can travel from one point to another with enough power margin, considering attenuation, connector loss, splice loss, transmitter power, receiver sensitivity, and engineering margin.
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DWDM allows multiple high-capacity data channels to travel through the same fiber using different wavelengths of light — how modern networks carry large traffic across cities, regions, data centers, and service provider networks. This module covers practical optical transport planning: DWDM systems, wavelengths, ROADMs, ILAs, EDFA, OTN, OSNR, dispersion control, and protection concepts.
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FTTH delivers fiber broadband directly to homes, apartments, small businesses, and communities. PON is a common FTTH architecture where one fiber from the service provider is shared across multiple customers using passive optical splitters. A good FTTH design considers OLTs, splitters, feeder fiber, distribution fiber, drop fiber, ONTs, split ratios, and optical budgets — as well as customer density and future growth.
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Fiber testing is the process of checking whether a fiber link is healthy, clean, and ready for service. Even a well-designed network can fail if connectors are dirty, splices are poor, fiber is bent, or documentation is wrong. This module covers how engineers validate fiber quality and troubleshoot basic field problems using OTDR, insertion loss, return loss, splice loss, reflectance, and fault-location concepts.
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GIS-based fiber route planning uses map-based tools to plan and document where fiber networks physically exist. This module helps students understand how GIS supports fiber planning, construction, maintenance, and future upgrades — covering fiber routes, sites, splice points, handholes, manholes, cabinets, POP locations, and service areas.
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The capstone brings the main optical network concepts together into one practical design exercise — fiber fundamentals, DWDM transport, FTTH/PON access design, optical budgeting, fiber testing awareness, GIS documentation, and professional reporting. Career readiness helps students explain their work clearly in resumes, interviews, and LinkedIn profiles.
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Live sessions, notes, templates, private video access, project guidance, and capstone review — everything you need to complete the course.
Enrollment
Engineering Students
$599
Full-time students & recent graduates
Working Professionals
$799
Professionals transitioning into optical networking roles
Flexible payment plans available on request.
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Small group learning. Dedicated instructor time. No large cohorts.
First 3 sessions are free. Evaluate before committing to enrollment.
Plano, TX in-person or live online — choose what works for you.
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