Installation Guide Manual

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Chapter 4
Terminate Your Fiber-optic Cable
What Is Termination?
Termination is the process of attaching a connector to the ends of your fiber cable.
Use protective caps on the ends of unused connectors.
Follow these additional recommendations to terminate your fiber cable:
• Decide on the type of cable dressing based on the fiber cable construction
(for example, loose tube, zipcord, simplex, and so forth)
See page 31
for more information.
• Decide if a patch panel is to be used
– A loose tube cable should be terminated into a patch panel
– Jumpers should be used to connect the segment from the patch panel to
the fiber repeater; determine the jumper lengths for the patch panel
• Route fiber cable in the cabinet appropriately
• Provide sufficient cable length for maintenance and determination if it
becomes necessary to re-terminate the fiber ends
• ST-type terminations must be plastic or ceramic; no metal
Figure 15 - Patch Panel Example
Figure 15 shows a patch panel with incoming multi-fiber backbone cable and
connectors for interconnect cables.
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What Is Termination? 53
Terminate Your Cable 54
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