The development and application of MPO fiber optic patch cord play an important role and significance in engineering, greatly promoting the popularity of optical networks and reducing costs. They are widely used in fiber optic communication networks, transmission systems, and CATV networks. In addition, the high-density wiring application of MPO fiber optic jumper has significant importance in engineering practice. Do you know the precautions for using MPO/MTP fiber optic patchcord? This article will introduce these four aspects in detail.
Guide hole damage: This is mainly due to the tilted insertion direction of the male connector during connection, which causes the front end of the male MPO/MTP fiber patch cord guide pin to be scratched. This damage may directly lead to an increase in some or all channel loss values.
End face contamination: Contamination mainly occurs when the dust cap is removed too early before the MPO jumper is docked or exposed to an unclean environment for a long time. This contamination will directly affect the docking performance of the product, making the docking effect unstable, and even causing damage to the connector end during docking.
Partial mechanical damage: This is mainly caused by excessive external force during construction. This damage of MTP fiber cable may not affect performance in the early stage, but it is likely to cause complete failure in the short term.
Optical cable mechanical damage: This is mainly caused by dragging or unintentional cutting during construction. This damage may not affect performance in the early stage, but it is likely to cause complete failure in the short term.
Avoid opening the dust cap of the MPO fiber patch cord before docking. Don’t remove the dust cap of the fiber optic adapter interface that has been connected to the adapter panel but not docked.
Except for normal docking, don’t let the MPO|MTP fiber jumper connector grinding end face contact or scratch any other object.
If there is foreseeable end face dirt, try to use a special MPO|MTP connector cleaning pen or dust-free paper soaked in anhydrous ethanol to clean it. Do not use paper towels, cotton wool, ordinary cotton swabs and other items to clean the end face.
When docking the connector, please confirm that the MPO fiber connector positioning key direction is extended to the axial insertion of the adapter or fiber optic patch panel. Don’t repeatedly plug and unplug when the end face cannot be viewed.
When inserting the MPO connector into the adapter, pay attention to holding the mpo fiber connector tail sleeve, and when pulling out, hold the connector shell.
When bending the cable, keep the bending radius equal to or greater than 20 times the outer diameter of the cable.
When bundling the cable, keep the tightness appropriate and the MPO|MTP optical patchcord sheath should not be severely deformed.
When perforating or threading cables, push and pull at the same time. Do not drag or push the MTP fiber cable too hard to prevent scratches that may cause cable breakage or breakage.
As the highly efficient and space-saving, MPO|MTP fiber cable have become an important part of data centers and other environments with high-density fiber connections. MTP fiber jumper has the characteristics of easy polarity conversion and low insertion loss. It is a product born for high-density wiring. UnitekFiber not only provide MPO/MTP optical patch cord, but also provide switchable polarity LC Uniboot optical fiber jumpers. It is also a high-density wiring application. If you need any support, please contact us sales@unitekfiber.com at any time.
