Certifications to Connect the World
Fiber Insight is licensed to deliver globally-recognized CFCE, CONA, & CONE in North America by course developer Optical Technology Training (OTT). All courses are live, five-day, & instructor-led with hands-on labs. All classes conclude with a final project and certification exam. Click on the images below to see upcoming course dates.
Characterize fiber infrastructure professionally to assess its quality and capacity.
The CFCE certification is designed for test technicians and engineers to learn industry best practices for providing comprehensive fiber characterization testing. This includes connector inspection, loss, ORL, OTDR and dispersion. While fiber characterization goals vary, we focus on advanced infrastructure requirements In DCI, metro and long haul networks. Advanced OTDR use and analysis is emphasiized.
Plan cost-effective optical networking solutions.
The CONA certification focuses on planning cost-effective fiber networks that use direct detection technology. It lays the foundation for progression to the Certified Optical Network Engineer (CONE) course. It is ideal for network planners, operations staff, related roles and management.
Certified Optical Network Engineer (CONE)
Overcome challenges using the latest technologies
The CONE certification tackles designing optical networks which use coherent transmission and digital signal processing. It addresses the challenges of increasing capacity, extending reach, increasing flexibility, controlling latency, providing quality of service and going open and interoperable.
Partnership with Optical Technology Training (OTT)
We are licensed to offer optical networking courses developed by Optical Technology Training (OTT). OTT is globally recognized as both training and technical experts, with decades of experience developing comprehensive and continuously upgraded course content.
Attendees of our OTT courses receive access to OTT’s online resources available for one year following the training. OTT’s certification program is a career-building part for successful optical network engineers and management. Their materials are continuously updated to stay current and highly relevant to the dynamic optical networking industry.
Certified Fiber Characterization Engineer (CFCE)
Fiber Characterization by Trained Professionals
This five-day course teaches test engineers to carry out full fiber characterization, including bi-directional OTDR testing, chromatic dispersion, Polarisation Mode Dispersion (PMD) and spectral attenuation measurements.
The course is critical for fiber optic test engineers, technicians, technical support, optical network project managers and supervisors, and hyperscalers or any company utilizing fiber characterization contractors.
The CFCE course will enable you to recognise why different tests are required and what information they should provide as well as how to carry them out. This course assumes that you have some previous experience of basic OTDR testing, but provides advanced OTDR training as well as CD and PMD training.
Upcoming CFCE Classes
Aug 4-8, 2025 Seattle, WA
Oct 20-24, 2025 Anchorage, AK*
* We also offer dedicated classes onsite at your facility for your team. Contact tim.yount@fiberinsight.com for more details.
For registration please contact our partner
Light Brigade at https://www.lightbrigade.com/ott-certification.
Certified Optical Network Associate (CONA)
Optical Network Design and Implementation
This 5-day certification course introduces fiber optics and optical networking planning, design and implementation of high capacity networks. It covers network infrastructure as well as transmission systems that use direct detection technology. These systems can provide very high capacity (up to 1.6Tb/s) Ethernet channels within data centres and commonly 100 & 400Gb/s data rates for metro data centre interconnect (DCI).
Through the use of design exercises and assignments including a case study, attendees will learn how to design optical networking systems to provide efficient and cost-effective solutions for many network applications. The CONA course provides the solid foundation, on which the advanced level Certified Optical Network Engineer course builds.
This course is a career development necessity for optical network planners, operations staff, datacenter operations and other network engineers, network managers, and optical communications or fibre optic specialists for data centres.
Upcoming CONA Classes
May 12-16 2025. Dallas, TX
Aug 18-22, 2025 Seattle, WA
** We also offer dedicated classes onsite at your facility for your team. Contact tim.yount@fiberinsight.com for more details.
Certified Optical Network Engineer (CONE)
Designing High Performance Networks
The advanced 5-day CONE optical network certification course is designed for those dealing with demanding applications for optical network applications including subsea links, core networks, cloud and CDN applications, Data centre interconnects, financial networks and some national and educational research networks. Among others this includes optical network engineers, architects, designers, and planners.
CONE builds on the foundation provided by the CONA course. It deals with designing optical networks which use coherent transmission & digital signal processing, & tackles the requirements for designing high performance networks to meet key challenges such as increasing capacity, extending reach, increasing flexibility, controlling latency, providing quality of service and going open and interoperable, whilst also keeping costs under control and reducing electrical power consumption.
Because of the advanced nature of this course, successful completion of the CONA course is required prior to CONE.
Upcoming CONE Classes
May 5-9, 2025 Austin, TX
Aug 25-29, 2025 Seattle, WA
We also offer dedicated classes onsite at your facility for your team. Contact tim.yount@fiberinsight.com for more details.