FIBER DISTRIBUTION TERMINALS AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS INCORPORATING THE SAME

Abstract: in one embodiment, a fiber distribution terminal includes a housing having a body, the housing defining an enclosure, a splitter including an input and a plurality of outputs, an input port on the body of the housing, a plurality of multifiber output ports on the body of the housing, a single fiber optically coupled to the input port and the input of the splitter, and a plurality of multifiber output legs, each multifiber output leg coupled to an individual output of the plurality of outputs of the splitter and to an individual multifiber output port of the plurality of multifiber output ports. if desired, the input port and/or the plurality of multifiber output ports may be on a front face of the housing. other embodiments of fiber distribution terminals may use a multifiber input port along with a plurality of splitters and a plurality of multifiber output ports.

Inventor(s): Shane Blackburn Harmon, Darin Gregory Howe, Joshua Thomas Smith

CPC Classification: G02B6/4452 (Mechanical structures for providing tensile strength and external protection for fibres, e.g. optical transmission cables (cables incorporating electric conductors and optical fibres {where features relating to the optical fibres are not of interest} ))

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