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Brought to you by the SCTE Wheat State Chapter, this unique training session provides broadband installers and technicians with the knowledge and hands-on skills necessary to perform professional broadband installation and troubleshooting. Improve your skills and your customers' satisfaction. All participants will receive a certificate of completion for the training session. Successful completion of the “Drop Installation Fundamentals” course will advance its attendees toward achieving the SCTE Broadband Premises Installer (BPI) certification.

Using an SCTE PD (Professional Development)-approved curriculum, CommScope instructors travel to SCTE's chapters and meeting groups to conduct the course in one four-hour session. The course will provide the dual benefit of helping installers achieve the highest standards of professional craftsmanship while equipping cable operators with a confident workforce that can promote and ensure the reliability of their networks.

The course will comprise a dozen objectives for students, including teaching them to recognize basic analog cable network configurations; describe how signal flows from the network to the customer's television; demonstrate proper cable handling, preparation, and connectorization techniques of cables used within the drop system; and distinguish passive and active devices within the customer's premises including discussing their functions and use.

Also, all participants attending the Drop Installation Fundamentals course should bring the drop cable tools they currently use on the job. The class leader will inspect the following tools to determine if any need to be replaced:

• Drop preparation tool
• Diagonal side cutters
• Compression tools

CommScope will replace worn blades and any of these tools that are damaged at no cost to the participants. This is an all day seminar that will not be televised/broadcasted and it is also a hands-on seminar so all attendees will need to be on site.

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     The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers is a non-profit professional organization committed to advancing the careers of cable telecommunications professionals and serving their industry through excellence in technological training, certification and standards. SCTE currently has over 17,500 members from the U.S. and 70 countries worldwide and offers a variety of programs and services for the industry's educational benefit. SCTE has 70 chapters and meeting groups and has technically certified over 3,000 employees of the cable telecommunications industry.