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We currently use fiber on a few applications. I have no skills in terminating the stuff. So when it came to providing fiber from one cabinet to another via patch panels for the data guys I have used Leviton and the little fiber couplers that mount in a universal patch panel that accepts different modules. That is, they accomadate fiber and/or copper.
Back to the new data center. Is this a good practice to continue? Should I have someone actually terminating the fiber at the patch panels? Are the couplers sufficient?
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Why not just by terminated fiber jumpers?
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Those couplers are always used. You wouldn't actually terminate fiber with female ends and connect two cables directly together. The only thing you might want to do differently, is having the fiber terminated at a proper fiber tray/enclosure with slack spools. https://www.panduit.com/search/prod...;Ne=1®ion=1&recName=FT1W12DSC
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Originally posted by Kyawa:
Why not just by terminated fiber jumpers? I think you mean "buy"? The cables between the racks are pre-terminated (SC connectors). The cables used within the cabinet (from the patch panel to the whatever device) are pre-terminated. Perhaps (almost certainly) I was unclear. Let's see... If cabinet A has some fiber enabled device and likewise for cabinet B, there is a cable run between them that terminates to the back of a patch panel in both cabinets. One in each cabinet. That patch panel looks like this https://www.leviton.com/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpSctDspRte.jsp?section=14306&minisite=10028 Those blue things you see are the couplers I'm talking about. Richard
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Originally posted by Clinton: Those couplers are always used. You wouldn't actually terminate fiber with female ends and connect two cables directly together. The only thing you might want to do differently, is having the fiber terminated at a proper fiber tray/enclosure with slack spools. https://www.panduit.com/search/prod...;Ne=1®ion=1&recName=FT1W12DSC I take it you are saying that is a standard practice and should not create a problem. Richard
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Exactly. By the sounds of it, you're doing things just as you should.
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Oh, goody! Something done correctly.
thanks Clinton
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Richard,
The way you are doing is OK and will work well. I prefer to use a seperate panel for my fiber in the cabinets and feed from there to the device with a patch cord. That way you get more flexibility. The connectors in the fiber panel are actually a coupler. A preconnected fiber will fit each end.
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