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RE: 2-Channel CWDM Add/Drop with SC/APC connectors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jensen Tyler)
Fri Feb 8 14:01:15 2013
From: Jensen Tyler <JTyler@fiberutilities.com>
To: Chuck Anderson <cra@WPI.EDU>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 19:00:57 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20130208171754.GI8974@angus.ind.WPI.EDU>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I have seen cwdm Add/Drop muxes that fit in a splice case. May fit what you=
need.
Jensen Tyler
Sr Engineering Manager
Fiberutilities Group, LLC
Suite 500, 222 3rd Ave, SE
Cedar Rapids, IA 52401
http://www.fiberutilities.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Anderson [mailto:cra@WPI.EDU]=20
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 11:18 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: 2-Channel CWDM Add/Drop with SC/APC connectors
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 10:55:34AM +0100, Thilo Bangert wrote:
> On Thursday, February 07, 2013 08:04:41 PM Chuck Anderson wrote:
> > Is it that much harder to terminate the angled connectors?
>=20
> no - its just a different type of pigtail, but adding another splice,=20
> will increase the insertion loss slightly.
When I looked inside the OADM module, I don't remember seeing any splices, =
but that may just be because I didn't look inside the optobox itself. I wa=
s under the impression that the connectors were not pigtails spliced to the=
optobox fibers, but rather directly terminated to the fibers emerging from=
the optobox. I'm not sure the optobox is meant to be opened.
So my question is, how hard is it to put a raw angled connector onto a stra=
nd of fiber in the field without using factory pre-terminated pigtails? I =
assume the process would be the same as any other
connector: insert strand, cleave, polish, but using an angled sleeve to pol=
ish the end at the correct angle?
> we once ordered a cwdm splitter box at a different than usual place -=20
> as always with sc/apc connectors.
> the supplier changed the pigtails to accomodate our request.=20
> unfortunatly he didnt change the bulkheads, which was less than helpfull.
Wow, that would be confusing.
