FiberView vs Sorphase

Fiber Color Chart The Fiber Color Chart tab is the fastest way to identify any strand in a ribbon fiber cable — no laminated card, no guessing, no wasted time on the job. Instant Strand Lookup Select your cable size from the picker at the top and every tube, ribbon, and strand maps out instantly below. Standard ribbon cables from 144F to 1728F are fully supported, as are high-density Micro Fiber cables from 12F to 864F. Need a non-standard count? Build a Custom Cable by entering any total fiber count and buffer configuration — the chart generates on the fly. Search by Strand Number Type any strand number into the search bar and the app pinpoints exactly which tube and ribbon it lives in — not just for the current cable, but across every standard and micro cable size simultaneously. Results show the tube color, ribbon position, and strand color following TIA-598 conventions, with the matching cell highlighted and scrolled into view automatically. Color-Coded Tube Cards Each buffer tube is displayed as a card showing its TIA-598 color identity, black-stripe count (for tubes beyond the first 12), and a full ribbon breakdown. Tubes collapse and expand individually so you can focus on the buffer you care about. On iPad, the cable picker and stats panel sit side-by-side with the tube list for a true two-column workflow. At-a-Glance Stats Below the cable picker, a stats row shows the total fiber count, number of ribbons, buffer count, and fibers per ribbon — confirming at a glance that the cable you selected matches what's in front of you. Recent Lookups A scrollable recents bar remembers the cable sizes you looked at last, so switching between the two cables on a splice tray is a single tap rather than re-navigating the picker every time. Bookmarked Strands Any strand can be starred and saved to the Favorites tab with a custom label. Bookmarked strands deep-link back into the chart — tapping one scrolls directly to the correct tube, expands it, and highlights the exact strand cell. TIA-598 Compliant All color assignments follow the TIA-598 fiber color standard: Blue, Orange, Green, Brown, Slate, White, Red, Black, Yellow, Violet, Rose, Aqua — in order, with black-stripe cycling applied correctly for cables with more than 12 ribbons per buffer.

Sorphase 3.0 turns your iPhone and iPad into a field-ready OTDR trace workbench. Open standard SR-4731 (.sor) files, keep them organized by cable, judge every event against published limits, average both directions and hand over a clean PDF report — offline, with no account and no subscription. NEW IN 3.0 - Trace library: import many SOR files at once, or share a .sor file from Files, Mail or AirDrop and choose Sorphase. Byte-for-byte copies are kept on your device and grouped into jobs by cable or project. - Pass/fail thresholds: presets use ANSI/TIA-568.3-D component limits (0.75 dB per mated connector pair, 0.3 dB per splice, cable attenuation and return loss). Add your own stricter project profile. - A–B cursors: tap to place cursors, zoom and nudge by one sample. Read distance, two-point loss, least-squares (LSA) attenuation in dB/km and a 4-point LSA event loss. - Fiber sections: every span between events gets its own least-squares attenuation, plus a length-weighted mean for the link. - Bidirectional averaging: pair A-to-B and B-to-A traces. Events are matched and averaged with (loss A-to-B + loss B-to-A) / 2, so gainers and exaggerated splice losses cancel out. - Macrobend check: overlay up to six traces. When 1310 and 1550 nm (or other wavelength pairs) are loaded, events whose loss rises by more than your threshold at the longer wavelength are flagged. - Cable summary: see pass/fail, length, loss, worst splice and worst reflectance for every fiber in a job. Export it as PDF or CSV. - PDF reports: trace plot, event table with results, fiber sections, link summary, identification and the method used. Share or save from the built-in preview. - Decoded file details: cable and fiber IDs, locations A and B, operator, fiber type, build condition, instrument and software from the file. Event codes are decoded too: reflective or not, found or added, end of fiber, loss technique. - Wider file support: SR-4731 revision 1 and revision 2 layouts. The CRC-16/XMODEM checksum variant written by some instruments is verified as well as the standard CRC-16/CCITT. - Units and corrections: kilometres, metres, feet or miles. Change the group index (IOR) to rescale every distance, and apply a helix factor to convert fiber length into cable length. - Loss budget calculator: length x attenuation + connectors + splices + other, with an optional power budget and margin. Fill it from a trace and compare it with the measured total loss. Also available as a Shortcuts and Siri action. - Sample job: five clearly labelled synthetic traces let you try every tool before you import your own files. STILL AT THE CORE - Stored samples plotted with min/max buckets, so narrow reflections stay visible. CSV export keeps every sample. - File integrity is checked. A file with an unrecognized checksum opens only after you confirm, and stays marked unverified in the app and in reports. - The import diagnostics list every block, the source SHA-256 and the reader notes. WHAT TO KNOW Sorphase reads binary SR-4731 files with one pulse width and one standard data group, up to 16 MB and one million samples. Multi-pulse files, vendor container formats and text exports are not supported. Event loss and reflectance are the instrument's stored values. Sorphase adds standards-based calculations (least-squares fits, bidirectional averages, loss budgets) and shows each formula in the app. It is an interpretation aid: it does not calibrate instruments and does not certify links. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts, analytics, advertising or tracking. Traces stay on your device until you export or share them yourself.