Corning Introduces Fiber Connector, Splicing Solutions

Corning Cable Systems at the FTTH show this week is demonstrating a handful of innovative new solutions for the outside plant that allow for easier installation and maintenance of fiber networks.

The company’s new multifiber connector supports up to 12 fibers for its FlexNAP Terminal Distribution System. With this new MT connector, service providers don’t need to buy a multiport box until they have more than one customer served by that fiber connection on the neighborhood node.

The OptiShealth Premier FlexNAP system, which was introduced about a year ago and is now used to pass about a quarter of a million homes, allows service providers to avoid spending a lot of time installing fiber access systems in the field by delivering a complete, premeasured and prespliced, fiber solution that allows for quick installation. “It’s just like a water hose,” said Bernhard Deutsch, Corning’s director of marketing and market development for sales & marketing in the Americas, “you plug it in.” He added that service providers can realize time savings of up to 70 percent and first-installed cost savings of up to 50 percent with the FlexNAP solution.

Corning this week at the show also made available an installation video and design guide for FlexNAP.

In other news from Corning, the company has two new splicing devices, the OptiSplice one, a one-fiber version, and the OptiSplice ribbon, for 12-fiber ribbon splicing. Both are new, smaller designs that include easy-to-use GUIs for specifying splicing parameters. They also feature lighting so field technicians can see what they’re doing even at night. And both models come with various add-on appliances such as a device to hold the OptiSplice around a technician’s neck to keep his or her hands free to do the job. The single-fiber device can splice within 10 seconds. The 12-fiber version splices in 20 seconds.

Corning Cable Systems  www.corning.com

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