Fiber cable termination

The most common types that are added to fiber optic cable in inside plant environments are LC, SC, ST, and FC.

Best practice guidelines from the FOA mandate that the bare fiber be cleaned by an alcohol wipe at this step.

The end of the pigtail is stripped and fusion spliced to a single fiber of a multi-fiber trunk.

[4] A fanout kit is a set of empty jackets designed to protect fragile tight-buffered strands of fiber from a cable.

[5] Zip-cord style jackets, including those that contain Aramid yarn as the strength member, can be slipped over multiple fiber strands coming out of a loose buffer cable to convert it to a complete set of single-fiber cables that can be directly attached to optical connectors.

Use of a breakout kit enables a fiber-optic cable containing multiple loose buffer tubes to receive connectors without the splicing of pigtails.