Custom Courses: Bring our training to your location!

The Light Brigade can develop and deliver a custom course specific to your needs and application. Let us create a course to meet your desired skill level and to focus on specific subject matter. We have produced thousands of customized courses, DVDs, videos, and other training materials.

Convenience:  The course can be taught at your site(s) and scheduled to meet your business needs.

Cost and time savings:  Eliminate travel time and expense to and from a public class. Also, your employee’s time will only be spent on issues critical to your company’s business.

Develop expertise:  Use your own equipment in our training or have us bring our extensive inventory of supplies and equipment. You decide!

Critical emphasis:  You pick the points, products, and techniques of particular importance to your operations, and our skilled instructors and technicians will tailor a custom course to meet your requirements.

Scheduling flexibility:  A custom course can be any length: one day, one week, or longer. It can be scheduled during or after normal business hours. There can be sessions spread out throughout the year and delivered at different company locations. You choose what makes sense for your organization.

Fiber Optics for Utilities

Fiber optic communications is becoming increasingly important in power utilities as Smart Grid technology boosts demand for bandwidth in the telemetry and control (SCADA) of the modern power network infrastructure. This four-day course was developed to help the Utility increase deployment speed and reduce operating costs by improving the fiber optic technology skills of their personnel. Content focuses on the challenges of designing and installing aerial and underground fiber optic networks in power utility transmission and distribution rights-of-way, and emphasizes fiber optic cable technology alternatives such as Optical Ground Wire (OPGW), AllDielectric Self-Supporting (ADSS) and Wrap cable. Get more information

Fiber Optics for Mining Applications

Increased safety requirements and the competitive nature of natural resources recovery has greatly increased the demand for reliable communications in harsh environments. This training program addresses the challenges of deploying and maintaining fiber optic networks in harsh environments in order to improve employee safety, provide reliable communications, improve and measure process efficiency, and provide continuous monitoring and analysis of the hazardous environments. The three day course consists of one and a half days of classroom instruction followed by one and a half days of hands-on instruction. The content structure is tailored to the unique environment and applications of underground, open pit, and strip mines. Get more information

Emergency Restoration

Whether the fiber cable network is above or below ground, inside or outside a building, these words strike fear in any network or outside plant manager. Network outages can cost ten of thousands of dollars every hour your system is offline. When (not if) a problem occurs, it is critical not only to have a recovery program in place, but to have staff that is trained to deal with the emergency in timely, cost-efficient manner. The Emergency Restoration advanced training course will help your organization to develop its own ongoing restoration program. It places heavy emphasis on fault location, troubleshooting, and test equipment, then culminates in a second day of hands-on drills that simulate actual field restorations for both retrievable and non-retrievable slack scenarios.  PDF

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