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If attendees are not already familiar with or trained in optical fiber, a fiber review is available as part of the course or the student can take the basic fiber course at Fiber U.\n\nAll applicants must pass the Certified Fiber Optic Specialist/Fiber For Wireless (CFOS/W) Certification Exam to earn credential."},"ceterms:subjectWebpage":"http://www.thefoa.org/adv-cert.htm#CFOS/W","ceterms:targetAssessment":["https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-602b7b2f-b21d-4848-a77b-3297b38f01a9"],"ceterms:targetCredential":["https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-53f1ab9d-65b1-43d4-873d-e443a6d1d383","https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-b3c225e8-cfd0-4718-b629-86a39a950f31"],"ceterms:audienceLevelType":[{"@type":"ceterms:CredentialAlignmentObject","ceterms:framework":"https://credreg.net/ctdl/terms/AudienceLevel","ceterms:targetNode":"audLevel:AdvancedLevel","ceterms:frameworkName":{"en-US":"Audience Level"},"ceterms:targetNodeName":{"en-US":"Advanced Level"},"ceterms:targetNodeDescription":{"en-US":"Intended for those with significant experience or expertise where developmental expectations are staged for assessing knowledge, skills, or competencies beyond the novice and intermediate levels."}}]}],"ceterms:offeredBy":["https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-ab0c002b-54f5-405f-8625-9a83c47fc5b6"],"ceterms:renewedBy":["https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-ab0c002b-54f5-405f-8625-9a83c47fc5b6"],"ceterms:revokedBy":["https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-ab0c002b-54f5-405f-8625-9a83c47fc5b6"],"ceterms:inLanguage":["en"],"ceterms:recommends":[{"@type":"ceterms:ConditionProfile","ceterms:name":{"en-US":"Certified Fiber Optic Specialist/Fiber For Wireless (CFOSW)"},"ceterms:assertedBy":["https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-ab0c002b-54f5-405f-8625-9a83c47fc5b6"],"ceterms:description":{"en-US":"For preparation for the CFOS/W course, you should take the Fiber U, \"Fiber For Wireless\" self-study course."},"ceterms:subjectWebpage":"https://fiberu.org/Wireless/index.html","ceterms:audienceLevelType":[{"@type":"ceterms:CredentialAlignmentObject","ceterms:framework":"https://credreg.net/ctdl/terms/AudienceLevel","ceterms:targetNode":"audLevel:AdvancedLevel","ceterms:frameworkName":{"en-US":"Audience Level"},"ceterms:targetNodeName":{"en-US":"Advanced Level"},"ceterms:targetNodeDescription":{"en-US":"Intended for those with significant experience or expertise where developmental expectations are staged for assessing knowledge, skills, or competencies beyond the novice and intermediate levels."}}]}],"ceterms:description":{"en-US":"CFOS/W - Certified Fiber Optic Specialist, Fiber For Wireless - is the FOA certification for technicians installing wireless communications systems that are connected on fiber optics. This course is an application specialist course focusing on educating technicians and managers about what is involved in connecting cell site backhaul and fronthaul, antennas on cell towers, small cells, distributed antenna systems (DAS), and WiFi access points for premises, urban and rural line-of-sight WiFi networks. Skills for technicians should be learned for other certifications. The CFOS/W certification now includes the CFOS/A (Fiber to Antenna) and CFOS/DAS (Distributed Antenna Systems) certifications."},"ceterms:alternateName":{"en-US":["CFOS/W"]},"ceterms:subjectWebpage":"http://www.thefoa.org/adv-cert.htm#CFOS/W%20Wireless","ceterms:processStandards":"http://www.thefoa.org/KSAs.html#CFOS/w","ceterms:renewalFrequency":"P3Y","ceterms:audienceLevelType":[{"@type":"ceterms:CredentialAlignmentObject","ceterms:framework":"https://credreg.net/ctdl/terms/AudienceLevel","ceterms:targetNode":"audLevel:AdvancedLevel","ceterms:frameworkName":{"en-US":"Audience Level"},"ceterms:targetNodeName":{"en-US":"Advanced Level"},"ceterms:targetNodeDescription":{"en-US":"Intended for those with significant experience or expertise where developmental expectations are staged for assessing knowledge, skills, or competencies beyond the novice and intermediate levels."}}],"ceterms:availabilityListing":["http://www.thefoa.org/foa_aprv.htm"],"ceterms:credentialStatusType":{"@type":"ceterms:CredentialAlignmentObject","ceterms:framework":"https://credreg.net/ctdl/terms/CredentialStatus","ceterms:targetNode":"credentialStat:Active","ceterms:frameworkName":{"en-US":"Credential Status"},"ceterms:targetNodeName":{"en-US":"Active"},"ceterms:targetNodeDescription":{"en-US":"Awards of the credential are ongoing."}},"ceterms:usesVerificationService":["https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-75a7d270-784d-4dff-9070-6bc8034e14ca"],"ceterms:processStandardsDescription":{"en-US":"KSAs For FOA CFOS/W Fiber For Wireless Certification:\n\nThe ability to perform any job requires certain abilities, knowledge, and skills commonly referred to as \"KSAs.\" For the fiber optic technician, these KSAs have been determined by more than a dozen FOA advisors from over 30 years of experience in actual installations. The FOA has developed this list as the qualifications for FOA certification and to provide training organizations and instructors a list of topics that should be included in a basic training curriculum, such as for FOA certification.\n\nFor those working in the field who wish to become FOA certified, it is a list of relevant topics for study, whether using the FOA textbooks or the FOA Online Reference Guide or Study Guides.\n\n KSAs for CFOS/W  - Fiber For Wireless:\n\nCellular wireless towers have become filled with antennas to provide additional bandwidth to satisfy user demands. Many towers are replacing coaxial cables to the antennas with smaller, lighter fiber optic cables. Cell towers (sites) are connected to the telco network on fiber optics also. Fiber is also being used to connect small cells in urban areas and DAS (distributed antenna systems) inside large buildings.\n\n WiFi also depends on fiber op[tics as the backbones of LANs that connect access points and fiber to sites for line-of-sight WiFi for longer distance connections in urban or rural areas.\n\n This certification will cover all types of wireless systems, explain how they use fiber for connections into their networks.\n\n Note: This is an FOA applications certification. The certification can be taken by management or designers who will not be doing installation without a CFOT. Installers of fiber optic cabling for wireless systems should always have a CFOT.\n\n Knowledge:\nThis assumes the tech has the basic knowledge of a CFOT or equivalent.\n\n- Wireless Systems\n     - Cellular - towers, small cells, DAS   \n     - Public safety - FirstNet\n     - WiFi - LAN, metro, rural\n- Cellular site technology\n     - Tower antenna connection types: coax or fiber/coax with passive antennas and all fiber systems with active antennas,\n     - Fiber to small cells\n     - Fiber used in DAS\n     - Backhaul, fronthaul, C-RAN\n     - WiFi Technology\n     - WiFi in LANs\n     - WiFi for line-of-sight links\n     - Super WiFi and WiMax\n- WiFi and DAS in premises cabling networks\n- Free space optics\n\nSkills:\nThose taking this course may be working in several areas - design, installation, service, even management. The skills for installation are similar to the CFOT but those with other job functions may need specialized skills appropriate to their total job responsibility, e,g, network design or project management.\n\nSkills - Installation\n- CFOT skills (cables, splicing, termination - generally prepolished/splice-on connectors, testing - PONs)\n- For prefab systems, special handling, installation, cleaning, testing\n\nAbilities - Installation:\n- CFOT abilities"}}