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Editing sections – EXFO FTB-5600 Distributed PMD Analyzer User Manual

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Managing Results

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FTB-5600

Editing Sections

Editing Sections

Once your acquisition is complete the FTB-5600 built its own PMD section
table based on the OTDR automatic detection event algorithm. Since most
OTDR events do not coincide with PMD events, you may find that the table
contains events that are irrelevant to your test. You may want to edit some
sections of the link to improve your results.

Here is an example of a trace before and after irrelevant sections are
cleaned out:

Trace before treatment