Blog — Interlab Knowledge Base

Interlab DAS Academy — distributed acoustic sensing, the fiber that hears | INTERLAB

Fiber Optic Technology, Monitoring Systems

How DAS detects and locates route activity, what controls classification performance, and how to select an OptaSense or Silixa configuration.
Interlab DTS Academy — distributed temperature sensing | INTERLAB

Fiber Optic Technology, Monitoring Systems

How calibrated Raman DTS maps temperature along power cables, tunnels and industrial routes, with practical system-selection criteria.
Interlab DTSS Academy — Brillouin distributed strain sensing | INTERLAB

Fiber Optic Technology, Monitoring Systems

How distributed strain sensing maps relative deformation along pipelines, ground and structures, including temperature compensation and mode trade-offs.
Interlab OFDR Academy — high-resolution sensing, ODiSI / OBR | INTERLAB

Fiber Optic Technology, Monitoring Systems

Select a compatible ODiSI 7100 or OBR mode by specimen length, gage pitch or sampling, channel count, update rate and
Interlab DFOS Academy — distributed fiber optic sensing: DAS, DTS, DTSS, OFDR | INTERLAB

Fiber Optic Technology, Monitoring Systems

Compare distributed fiber sensing architectures for dynamic-event detection, temperature, strain, dense specimen mapping and high-resolution reflectometry.
FITEL S185

Fiber Optic Technology

How to Select a Specialty Fiber Fusion System: FITEL S185 Configurator

Select a FITEL S185 fusion splicer, holders and NorthLab/3SAE equipment for a complete specialty-fiber workflow.
AEM TestPro CV100 vs TREND Networks LanTEK IV-S – cable certifier comparison 2026

Telecommunications Testers

AEM TestPro CV100 vs TREND Networks LanTEK IV-S — which cable certifier should you choose in 2026?

AEM TestPro CV100 or TREND Networks LanTEK IV-S 3000 MHz? We compare Cat 8 certification, PoE, Multi-Gig, fibre testing, reporting,
One-jumper OLTS reference – AEM TestPro

Fiber Optic Technology

One-jumper OLTS reference: the correct procedure and 7 errors

Learn how to set a one-jumper reference in AEM TestPro, verify the TRCs, and prevent contamination, the wrong method, or
AEM TestPro network diagnostics

Telecommunications Testers

LAN testing and troubleshooting: from cable to Wi-Fi

Troubleshoot LAN issues from cabling and PoE through switch, VLAN, DHCP and DNS to Wi-Fi with an interactive symptom-to-test matrix.

Fiber Optic Technology, News

Fiber Optic Measurement Academy — free online training with simulators

We have launched the Fiber Optic Measurement Academy: 7 chapters and 17 interactive simulators — from connector inspection, through OTDR,

Fiber Optic Technology, Monitoring Systems

Fiber-optic monitoring of pipeline strain and settlement

A single fiber-optic cable turns into thousands of sensors along the entire pipeline route. An interactive guide to BOTDR, OFDR

Fiber Optic Technology

OTDR-AI — free browser-based OTDR trace analysis (beta)

OTDR-AI is a free (beta) browser-based tool for analyzing OTDR measurements: .sor files from any manufacturer, automatic PASS/FAIL analysis, bidirectional