Distributed split configuration for multi-dwelling unit
AssigneeCommScope Technologies LLC
InventorJulian S. MULLANEY
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Abstract
Installing a fiber distribution system in a building having multiple floors includes routing a feed fiber to a first enclosure located at one of the floors of the building; disposing pre-connectorized ends of distribution fibers within the first enclosure; routing optical ferrules, which terminate second ends of the distribution fibers without connector bodies, through the building via a sheath; accessing the optical ferrules of the distribution fibers at respective floors; attaching connector bodies around the optical ferrules; and disposing the connector bodies within fiber distribution terminals at the appropriate floors.
Claims21
(canceled)
A cable assembly comprising:
- a sheath having a longitudinal axis extending between a first end of the sheath and a second end of the sheath, the sheath defining an axial slit extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of the sheath;
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- an optical cable including a plurality of optical fibers, each optical fiber having a first end mounted at an optical ferrule, the first ends being free of plug-type connectors, the first ends of the optical fibers being disposed within the sheath, the first ends of the optical fibers being accessible through the axial slit.
A method of installing a fiber distribution system in a building having multiple floors, the method comprising:
- disposing first ends of optical fibers of an optical cable at a first enclosure at a first floor of the building, the first ends of the optical fibers being connectorized at plug-type connectors;
- routing second ends of the optical fibers through the building via a sheath assembly including routing the sheath assembly to each floor of the building to be accessed, the second ends being free of plug-type connector bodies;
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- at each floor to be accessed:
- accessing an interior of the sheath assembly via an axial slit defined in the sheath;
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- removing the second end of at least one of the optical fibers from within the sheath through the axial slit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.