Patent ID: 11880081
Assignee: COMMSCOPE CONNECTIVITY BELGIUM BVBA
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. An indexing cable arrangement comprising:
a main cable section including a plurality of optical fibers extending between opposite first and second ends, the first ends of the main cable section being separated into a first interface set of one or more of the optical fibers and a first branch set of one or more of the optical fibers, the first interface set including more of the optical fibers than the first branch set;
a first multi-fiber connector terminating the first ends of the optical fibers of the first interface set;
a second multi-fiber connector terminating the first ends of the optical fibers of the first branch set, the second multi-fiber connector and the first multi-fiber connector defining a common number of fiber interface positions so that the number of fiber interface positions of the second multi-fiber connector is greater than a number of optical fibers in the first branch set;
a third multi-fiber connector terminating the second ends of a second interface set of the optical fibers of the main cable, the second interface set of the optical fibers including at least one optical fiber of the first interface set and at least one optical fiber of the first branch set;
a fourth multi-fiber connector terminating the second ends of a second branch set of the optical fibers of the main cable section, the optical fibers of the second branch set including at least one optical fiber from the first interface set.