Light Brigade to Coordinate FTTx Resource Center at OFC/NFOEC 2008

The Light Brigade, the world’s leading provider of fiber-optic training and training resources, has announced that they will again coordinate the FTTx Resource and Demonstration Center at the upcoming Optical Fiber Conference/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC/NFOEC 2008 will take place from February 24-28, 2008 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.

The FTTx Resource Center will feature live demonstrations, displays, and educational mini-sessions from a wide variety of organizations and manufacturers involved with every aspect of FTTx from components to systems. Visitors can meet with industry experts and manufacturers, attend live demonstrations, view products, or browse through related literature.

The Light Brigade will be on-site to demonstrate the company’s world-class line of fiber optic training options, FTTx/passive optical networks computer-based training (CBT) module and training DVDs. Staff members will be available to discuss FTTx products, applications, standards and technology.

In September 2007, The Light Brigade partnered with Nexus Media Communications, Ltd. to provide the second annual FTTx Resource Centre at the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), held in Berlin, Germany. The Centre featured 45 participating companies and nine live FTTx demonstrations.

Company Information

Since 1987 The Light Brigade has instructed over 30,000 attendees in its public and custom classes. The company offers courses nationwide covering basic fiber optic design, maintenance and testing plus advanced courses such as FTTx, DWDM, SONET/SDH, and fiber characterization (PMD/CD), and ITS. The Light Brigade produces educational DVDs, videos, CDs, and a self-paced FTTx computerized training module. The Light Brigade’s training materials are non-vendor specific.