Chapter 3 Launching A Reflectometry Test And Displaying Results - Viavi OTDR Series User Manual

Launching a reflectometry test
Chapter 3
and displaying results
Once the configuration for acquisition and file storage has been defined, the instrument
is ready to launch an OTDR measurement.
This chapter describes the different stages in a reflectometry measurement. It then
describes the functions available on trace(s).
The topics discussed in this chapter are as follows:
• "Performing OTDR acquisitions" page 40
• "Saving results for SmartTEST acquisitions" page 47
• "Results display" page 49
• "Advanced functions in Expert OTDR mode" page 61
• "Saving the trace(s) and generating a report" page 71
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