Case Study: IT infrastructure installation contractor achieves rapid MPO trunk troubleshooting and major time-and-cost savings with Fluke Networks' MultiFiber Pro

Think Trunk Cables Don’t Need Testing? MultiFiber Pro Shows One Installation Contractor They Certainly Do

An East Coast installation contractor for IT infrastructure was losing profitability on a project due to persistent failures in an MPO trunk link that had been labeled “pre-tested and certified.” Despite repeated cleaning and retesting with their OTDR/DTX CableAnalyzer and applying tight custom loss limits (around 1.40 dB for two-cassette links), installers could not isolate the fault—stalled progress and rising labor hours threatened the job.

Fluke Networks introduced the MultiFiber Pro Optical Power Meter, which can test all 12 MPO fibers at once without fan-outs and can isolate cassette breakouts that fall into an OTDR dead zone. Using the MultiFiber Pro, the team quickly proved the trunks failed to meet spec, resolved the installation, and gained a repeatable field test method that cuts testing time from minutes to seconds—translating to hundreds of labor hours and thousands of dollars saved on typical data center deployments.