Jim Hayes has been involved in the fiber optic industry over 40 years. He founded the world’s second fiber optic test equipment company, FOTEC, in 1980 and started training fiber techs in 1982. In the 1990s, he ran the Fiber U training conferences and was a co- founder of the Fiber Optic Association, the international professional society of fiber optics. Jim currently serves as president of the FOA, is the author of six books on fiber optics and cabling and writes for several magazines. Jim and his wife Karen manage the FOA, helping set up schools around the world to train the workers who design, build and operate today’s communications networks.
THERE IS AN OLD TERM I HAVE USED FOR YEARS in lecturing about fiber optics that most cable damage is called “backhoe fade.” At one seminar, a person from Bonneville Power responded that with his aerial cable plant in the western ranges, it was called “target practice.” Besides improving my lectures using his comment, it …
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The Fiber Optic Association (FOA) THE FIBER OPTIC Association (FOA) is the international professional society of fiber optics, chartered to promote professionalism in fiber optics through education, certification and standards. FOA is focused on enhancing the competence of the technicians who build the fiber optic networks that connect the world: the Internet, telecommunications systems (wired, wireless …
