I have 572 strands coming in to the C.O. That is bunch o fiber.
From: AF [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chuck Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2025 6:28 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] "Central Office" style fiber patch panels I have done both styles. I would rather splice outside in a splice case. Doing 288 on a card table in a C.O. While trying to wrangle all that fiber and doing it so it looks good when done is at least 4x more difficult. Takes longer too. Huge pita. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 30, 2025, at 12:05 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Yes, that general style is what I'm looking for. On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM Josh Luthman <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Are you looking for a panel like this? <image.png> On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM Forrest Christian (List Account) <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: How does that work in a "central office" style setup - i.e. a couple hundred strands coming into a rack which need to be potentially patched to each other, filters, SFP optical ports, etc? Are you talking about using a pre-formed and terminated tail from a patch panel to a splice point somewhere else? I.E. something like a MTP with a tail on the other side? We've always brought them from outside (or wherever they came from) up the rear of a 2 post rack and then terminated them into a patch panel of some sort. On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM Carl Peterson <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: I prefer a tail to a splice case or splice cases. On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM Forrest Christian (List Account) <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: I'm looking for a source/model/etc for fiber patch panels, which are similar to those found in a comm room/meet me room/etc. I think these might be called "distribution panels". Specifically, one designed to be mounted in a 2-post rack, with the fixed plant cable/splicing all happening in the rear, and the patching all happening in the front, and no need to unmount/move the patching in the front if some splicing work needs to occur in the rear. That way, the outside plant people can do their work in the rear without having to deal with patches in the front. So far, almost everything I've seen tends to be either cassette-based, where you do all the terminations and then somehow mount that in a rack, but if you have to gain access to the splices again, you have to pull the whole cassette out, OR the style where the entire splice tray and connectors slide out the front - in which case you have to leave enough slack or otherwise pay special attention to the patching for the slide-out function to work after you have several patch cables plugged in. An ebay search for "adc fiber distribution panel" gives me some examples of what I'm looking for, but they aren't exactly plentiful and I also want to use something consistent. -- - Forrest -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- Carl Peterson PORT NETWORKS 401 E Pratt St, Ste 2553 Baltimore, MD 21202 (410) 637-3707 -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- - Forrest -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- - Forrest -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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