Patent ID: 8588571
Filing Date: 2013-11-19
Classification: G02B,H04B

Abstract:
1. A method of installing a fiber optic network, the method comprising: preparing a physical site to accept a feeder cable and a plurality of access stub lines of the fiber optic network, the physical site extending along a plurality of customer premises that potentially may connect to the feeder cable to obtain communication services via the fiber optic network; installing the feeder cable at the physical site and coupling the feeder cable at a head end to a central office that provides access to the communication services; installing access stub lines extending from the feeder cable towards the customer premises and each ending at a different initial termination point, wherein there is a one-to-one correspondence between the customer premises and the access stub lines extending from the feeder cable, wherein the initial termination points are exterior to the customer premises and are not initially connected to customer premise equipment (“CPE”) until a fiber access line is extended between a given initial termination point and a given secondary termination point on a given customer premise; and attaching a demarcation device to an end of each of the access stub lines at each of the initial termination points, the demarcation device including an optical reflector that is reflective to an optical test signal for testing integrity of the feeder cable and an associated one of the access stub lines.