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Drop Installation Fundamentals: The Core to Network Reliability presented by CommScope-
The program is designed to instruct installers and technicians, both new hires and those needing to refresh their skills, on basic industry standards for properly performing a broadband installation.
Using an SCTE PD (Professional Development)-approved curriculum, CommScope instructors travel to SCTE's chapters and meeting groups to conduct the course in one five-hour session.
The course will provide the dual benefit of helping installers achieve the highest standards of professional craftsmanship while equipping cable operators with a confident workforce that can promote and ensure the reliability of their networks.
Successful completion of the “Drop Installation Fundamentals” course will advance its attendees toward achieving the SCTE Broadband Premises Installer (BPI) certification. As an added benefit, CommScope will provide non-SCTE members who successfully complete the course with a one year SCTE membership.
The course will comprise a dozen objectives for students, including teaching them to recognize basic analog cable network configurations; describe how signal flows from the network to the customer's television; demonstrate proper cable handling, preparation, and connectorization techniques of cables used within the drop system; and distinguish passive and active devices within the customer's premises including discussing their functions and use.
Also, all participants attending the Drop Installation Fundamentals course should bring the drop cable tools they currently use on the job. The class leader will inspect the following tools to determine if any need to be replaced:
¨ Drop preparation tool
¨ Diagonal side cutters
¨ Compression tools
CommScope will replace worn blades and any of these tools that are damaged at no cost to the participants.
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