Patent ID: 7533841

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a spool comprising: a plurality of radial surfaces; and at least three wall structures extending from the radial surfaces, one or more inner wall structures of the wall structures separating radial surfaces in different planes from each other, wherein the radial surfaces and wall structures define a first cable pathway and a second cable pathway, a third cable pathway extends through at least one radial break separating first radial surfaces of the radial surfaces, the first radial surfaces are located in a first plane, the third cable pathway couples the first cable pathway to the second cable pathway, the first cable pathway, the second cable pathway, and the third cable pathway are configured to receive a fiber optic cable without parts of the spool being removed, the wall structures and the radial surfaces are integrally formed, and a radius of a first arc of the third cable pathway is at least as large as a minimum bending radius of the fiber optic cable.