Monthly Maintenance: Randomly inspect fiber optic cable connections, test backbone fiber optic link attenuation, and clean connector end faces. deals with a non-gas-pressurized method (for maintenance, a gas-pressurized method is recommended in Recommendation L. 6 “Methods of keeping cable under gas pressure”, and is discussed in Part. A general practice of cleaning optical cables and module OSAs is a good and recommended habit to ensure overall system reliability and peak performance. Routine Inspection: Check room temperature and humidity, monitor equipment operation status, check for abnormal bends in fiber optic. Some people have suggested that fiber optic networks need periodic maintenance, including microscopic inspection of connectors and mating adapters and even insertion loss testing or taking OTDR traces.