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EXFO FTB-7000 OTDR for FTB-200 v2 User Manual

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OTDR

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15 Analyzing Traces with the

Bidirectional Analysis

Application

Note: The OTDR Bidirectional application is available from the Test Tools tab in

Compact ToolBox.

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The OTDR Bidirectional application helps you to perform a
bidirectional analysis on two unidirectional OTDR traces. For the
application to be able to match events, the two OTDR traces must have
been acquired in opposite directions and on the same fiber span.

The application will perform a bidirectional analysis and generate an
events table with the averaged loss for each event; that is, the average
of the losses obtained from both directions.

You can also analyze OTDR traces with multiple wavelengths.

To work with the OTDR Bidirectional application, you must acquire and
save the traces before the analysis.