Yes, "big mess" That! -----Original Message----- From: AF [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Fabien Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2025 7:29 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] "Central Office" style fiber patch panels
We've found the pre-loaded panel with a long enough pigtail to get you outside to be the preferred approach. Our latest fiber hut has 3x 432F panels, and for now has 3x 288F coming into it. When I've tried to do a 288F in the back of a large patch-N-Splice style panel it always ends up a huge mess and it's very hard to service if you need to fix a bad splice or something. On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote: > > This might be a middle of the road. > > https://thinklynn.com/products/categories/bladehd/ > > > > > -- > Mike Hammett > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Forrest Christian (List Account)" <[email protected]> > To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2025 12:13:41 PM > Subject: [AFMUG] "Central Office" style fiber patch panels > > > > > 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] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
