Optical fibre management system
AssigneeBritish Telecommunications public limited company
InventorsJohn Peacock, Peter Lewis John Frost, John Kerry
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Abstract
An optical fibre management system for manages a plurality of optical fibres. The system is such that the fibre(s) of each single circuit is/are routed separately from the fibres of other circuits, whereby optical signals carried by any given single circuit are not degraded by handling operations carried out on the fibres of other circuits.
Claims7
An optical fibre management system for providing single circuit management maintenance services to each single circuit in a system of plural optical signal distribution circuits without substantial disturbance of any other circuit, said system comprising:
- a plurality of fibre service trays, each tray containing optical fibre, the optical fibre of each tray being included in only a single optical signal distribution circuit.
A method for providing single circuit management maintenance services to each single circuit in a system of plural optical signal distribution circuits without substantial disturbance of any other circuit, said method comprising:
- separately routing the optical fibre of each single circuit through its own dedicated fibre access service tray which does not contain fibre from any other circuit;
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- servicing optical fibre in a given single circuit without substantial disturbance to optical fibre in any other circuit by individually accessing the service tray dedicated to such given single circuit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.