Patent ID: 6728460
Filing Date: 2004-04-27
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
A method for deploying a telecommunications fiber optic infrastructure comprising the steps of:deploying a fiber center distributing frame which forms a cable interface from at least one remote equipment to at least once central office equipment, the fiber center distributing frame comprising: a fiber center distributing frame module having an outside plant portion, an inside plant portion, and an equipment cable port, wherein the inside plant portion further includes a plurality of inside mounting positions and the outside plant portion is proximately located to the inside plane portion; and the inside plant portion of the fiber center distributing frame module further including a plurality of inside mounting positions wherein each one of the plurality of inside mounting positions includes the operating states of equipped, unequipped and spare and is in a designated one of the operating states including: equipped, unequipped and spare; connecting the at least one remote equipment to the outside plant portion; connecting, through the equipment cable port, the outside plant portion to any one of the plurality of inside mounting positions which is in the equipped operating state; and grooming, on the outside plant portion, the connection to the at least one remote equipment with the connection to the one of the plurality of inside mounting positions which is in the equipped operating state.