Patent ID: 11921340
Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An indexing system comprising:
a terminal housing;
a plurality of single-fiber output ports;
an optical splitter disposed within the terminal housing,
the optical splitter being configured to split optical signals received at a splitter input, and the optical splitter being coupled to at least some of the single-fiber output ports;

a first multi-fiber connection location;
a second multi-fiber connection location;
optical lines indexed between the first multi-fiber connection location and the second multi-fiber connection location;
a first drop fiber being optically coupled to the first multi-fiber connection location for carrying first optical signals from the first multi-fiber connection location to the splitter input of the optical splitter;
a second drop fiber coupled to the second multi-fiber location for carrying second optical signals from the second multi-fiber connection location to one of the plurality of single-fiber output ports wherein the second optical signals are not split within the terminal housing;
wherein one of the first drop fiber and the second drop fiber is a reverse feed and the other is a forward feed.