Patent ID: 7565055

Claim:
A fiber optic cable assembly comprising: a main cable having a first end and an oppositely disposed second end; a plurality of tethers, with each tether having a multifiber connectorized end and being separated from the main cable at a breakout location, wherein the tethers are intermittently disposed between the first end and the second end of the main cable; a factory-integrated enclosure disposed over at least a portion of the breakout location; a loop back connector plugged into the multifiber connectorized end of each of the plurality of tethers, wherein the loop back connector includes: a ferrule structure having an interface side that engages a ferrule of the multifiber connectorized end of the tether; a first optical loop back path having first and second terminal ends positioned at the interface side, the first terminal end being aligned with a first fiber in the ferrule of the multifiber connectorized end of the tether and the second terminal end being aligned with a second fiber in the ferrule of the multifiber connectorized end; and a second optical loop back path having first and second terminal ends positioned at the interface side, the first terminal end being aligned with a third fiber in the ferrule of the multifiber connectorized end and the second terminal end being aligned with a fourth fiber in the ferrule of the multifiber connectorized end.