I guess I missed a good thread while my parents were visiting from Texas. You didn't like cassette systems, but I find the cassettes more convenient than a slide out splice tray. We use this one: https://fiberonellc.com/ucs-1200/ Fiberone will pre-terminate it with a 300ft tail of 288 for a pretty reasonable price. Then you can have the tail hit a splice case outside, but you still have the means to splice in a new pigtail if you have a bad connector at the panel. We use 2-meter jumpers and cable managers that open up so you can just pull jumpers out of the rack without disconnecting them. I've never had to disconnect jumpers to pull a cassette out and work on it. I can send you a picture off list if you want.
I've used an LGX cassette similar to what Mike Hammet posted as well, but not the same brand. I think I determined that they were more expensive per port than getting an actual distribution panel, but they're nice if you're adding a 12F drop into the site and you already have an LGX bracket with space available. -Adam ________________________________ From: AF <[email protected]> on behalf of Forrest Christian (List Account) <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 1, 2025 3:10 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] "Central Office" style fiber patch panels Yeah, we've pretty much decided that's what we're going to do. We're still figuring out the details. Thanks everyone for bringing me (back) up to speed here. - Forrest On Thu, Jul 31, 2025, 11:15 AM Trey Scarborough <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: yeah Im on the same page panels with long enough tail to get outside or to a specific splice point in the building. If its a hut or small building we would typically just go out to the closest hand hole and do the splice there. If its in a building we will usually build our own splice enclosure for all cables from each path out of large Hoffman type metal wall enclosure. You can get a lot of splices in a 36" x 42" x 12" enclosure especially if its ribbon spliced. On 7/30/25 20:29, Chris Fabien wrote: > 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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]>> >> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" >> <[email protected]<mailto:[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]<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 -- AF mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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