Optical fiber cable distribution frame
OwnerPhilip Barker, John Kerry +1inventors
InventorsPhilip Barker, John Kerry, Christopher Taylor
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Abstract
A telecommunication distribution frames comprising a switch connected to an optical fibre of an incoming cable, terminated at a primary flexibility suite, via a secondary flexibility suite, where the primary and secondary flexibility suites include means for routing joined blown fibre tubes within the installation. A continuous blown fibre unit extending through the joined blown fibre tubes. A blown fibre tube flexibility module (14) has a patching panel (11), which may be provided with connectors. Above the panel (11) are a set of bend control vanes or mandrels (24), one for each of the connector sites in the panel. Patching tubes may pass down and out through the aperture (99) at the back of the module.
Claims22
A flexibility suite for routing optical fibres within a telecommunications switch installation, the suite comprising:
- a first flexibility point and a second flexibility point, the first flexibility point including a first set of conduits each of the conduits having a first end disposed in a first array and a second end disposed in a second array;
- the second flexibility point including a second set of conduits, each of the conduits having a first end disposed in a third array and a second end disposed in a fourth array;
- the flexibility suite being so arranged as to permit the conduit ends on the second array to be interconnected with conduit ends on the third array by means of tubular interconnects so that, by selecting the conduits whose ends on the second and third arrays are interconnected, a continuous path can be formed between any conduit end in the first array and any conduit end in the fourth array.
A method of creating a connection in a telecommunications switch or router installation, between a telecommunications switch or router, and an optical fibre of an incoming cable connected to and incoming from a telecommunications network, comprising the steps of:
- installing lengths of blown fibre tube and joining the ends of the lengths of blown fibre tube to form a path from a primary flexibility suite to the telecommunications switch via a secondary flexibility suite, where the primary and secondary flexibility suites include means for routing joined blown fibre tubes within the installation, and thereafter, installing, by blowing, a continuous blown fibre unit through the path formed by the joined blown fibre tubes, to provide an optical path between the telecommunications switch and the optical fibre of the incoming cable.
A method of re-routing an existing connection in a telecommunications switch or router installation from a connection between a first telecommunications switch or router and a primary flexibility suite, to create a connection between a second telecommunications switch or router and the primary flexibility suite, comprising the steps of:
- breaking the connection between the first telecommunications switch and the primary flexibility suite, joining the ends of lengths of blown fibre tube to form a path from the primary flexibility suite to the secondary telecommunications switch via a secondary flexibility suite, where the primary and secondary flexibility suites include means for routing joined blown fibre tubes within the installation, and thereafter, installing, by blowing, a continuous blown fibre unit through the path formed by the joined blown fibre tubes thereby providing an optical path between the second telecommunications switch or router and the optical fibre of the incoming cable.
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