EXFO Fiber Guardian FG-750 User manual

User Guide
Fiber Guardian
FG-750
www.EXFO.com

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Patents
This product incorporates the proprietary EXFO Link-Aware™ technology,
employing spectrally-selective high-reflectance demarcation (HRD) filters
to enable the attenuation of a specific branch of a P2MP
(point-to-multipoint) network to be measured/monitored.
Feature(s) of this product is/are protected by one or more of: US patent
8,687,957 and equivalent patents pending and/or granted in other
countries; US patent 8,576,389 and equivalent patents pending and/or
granted in other countries; US patents 9,170,173; 9,571,186; 10,014,935; and
9,423,316.
Version number: 7.0.0.1

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