Fiber Jumper Routing and Storage Managing fiber jumpers is an important aspect of deploying any optical networking equipment. The chassis ships with a selection of replaceable routing fins enabling the fiber jumpers to exit to the left and right of the chassis or all the fiber jumpers to the left or all to the right side of the chassis. This provides adaptability to meet the installation configurations encountered by the user. Each pair, or side, can store up to 0.5 meters for 48 jumpers or 1 meter for 24 jumpers or 3 meters for 8 jumpers. These jumper storage rings are easily removable for installations equipped with third party jumper management equipment.
Footprint is a critical factor to the cost of deploying any networking equipment.
This small chassis change can result in large footprint cost savings for collocation environments or space restricted central office environments. The only component not interchangeable between the existing shelf assembly and the new enhanced shelf assembly are the Fan Tray Assemblies. All the multi-service interface cards and common cards, which install in the 17 front access card slots, are compatible with both shelf types. The ONS 15454 NEBS 3E Shelf Assembly is orderable now through your sales representative. Production for the Enhanced Shelf Assembly will be phased-in and, as a result, shelf substitutions may be made.