Patent ID: 9638882
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: B65H,G02B,Y10T

Claim:
1. A method comprising: mounting a spool system at a floor level of a multiple dwelling unit, the floor level having multiple customer units, the spool system comprising at least one spool of fiber optic cable, each end of each fiber optic cable having a spliced-on connector; moving the at least one spool from a stowed position to a deployed position on a spool support supporting the at least one spool, the at least one spool comprising: paying out a length of fiber optic cable from the at least one spool to reach a customer unit of the floor level; moving the at least one spool from the deployed position to the stowed position after paying out the length of fiber optic cable, the anti-rotation feature of the at least one spool received by the feature receiver while in the stowed position, the feature receiver having a complementary shape of the anti-rotation feature preventing rotation of the at least one spool; connecting one of the connectors of the paid-out fiber optic cable to a floor splitter; and connecting the floor splitter to a distribution splitter of the multiple dwelling unit.