Introduce to Fiber Patch Panel

Sometimes, you might want to switch your lab environment rather rapidly.You might want a serial connection attached to one router one day, whereas the next day you might want that same connection to-do to another router.In these situations, it is best to use a patch panel of some sort.Fiber patch panel is a joint sight at large labs.The fiber patch panel LC is easy to work with.Most fiber panels have a female DTE port located on top. In the rear, and a fiber male DCE port and the DCE cable to the DCE port.On the front of the patch panel are small patch ports, with one port in front of each DTE and DCE port,.A black patch cable then enables you to patch one DTE port to one DCE port, there by connecting one router to another router.

To change the configuration,simply move the patch cable to another patch port,using a patch panel in this manner allows for quick and rapid physical configuration of many serial links,72 port fiber patch panel should be labeled on the front to designate which is the DCE and DTE port -this can be key when troubleshooting physical layer issues.Most patch panels also have bottom port, tight below the DCE port. This port is utilized to attaching a line monitor or data scope.

Trunk cables terminated with terminated withmuliple MTP connectors are available in four versions,either 12 fiber/6chanels,36fiber /18 channels,72/36chanels or 144 fiber /72chanels,Optical alignment is facilitated by a pair of metal guide pins in the ferrule of a male MTP connector ,which mate with corresponding holes inthe female MTP CONNECTOR ,under the cover of a director or enterprise host processor ,the MTP connectors ,attach to a counpler barcket (similar to a miniature MTP patch panel ):from there ,a cable harness fans out each MTP into 6 duplex connectors that mate with the fiber optic transceivers ,Since the qualification of the cable harness under the cover patch panel ,and trunk cable strain relief for FTS are all done in clollaboration with the mainframe server development organization ,the FTS solution functions as an intergral part of the applicatons.


In order to address these concerns, special fiber optic adapter cables have been developed, known as mode conditioning patch cables(MCP).This cable contains both single-mode and multimode fibers, and should be inserted on both ends of a link to interface between a single mode adapter cord and a multitude cables plant This allows the maximum achievable distances for multimode fiber and enables some applications.The MCPs for parallel simplex links,gigabyte ethernet fibre channel,and many other applications are available today.