Patent ID: 7747124

Claim:
A system comprising: a computer; a robotic subsystem controlled by said computer; and a multi-port panel having two sides and including a plurality of optical-fiber splicing-ports extending there-through, wherein: each one of certain of said plurality of optical-fiber splicing-ports accessible on one of said two sides interconnects with a different optical-fiber cable that can carry a signal to, or from, said each one of said certain of said plurality of ports; and at least one pair of said certain of said plurality of optical-fiber splicing-ports accessible on the other of said two sides of said panel is communicatively coupled together by an optical-fiber cable jumper having two ends, each one of said two ends being automatically inserted by operation of said robotic subsystem into a respective port of said pair of optical-fiber splicing-ports; whereby said different optical-fiber cable that carries a signal to, or from, one optical-fiber splicing ports of said pair of optical-fiber splicing-ports is communicatively coupled to said different optical-fiber cable that carries said signal from, or to, respectively, the other port of said pair of ports, and said robotic subsystem comprising two hollow end-encapsulator needles each located at a respective one of said each one of said two ends to envelop said each of said two ends said needles being geometrically configured to permit ease of threading between any other cable jumpers previously connected to other pairs of ports and displaced transversely to direction of insertion of said two ends.