Patent ID: 7029184

Claim:
Apparatus for use with each of a plurality of optical fiber cables that each includes a strength member, an outer cable jacket lying around the strength member, and a buffered fiber that extends to one of a plurality of termini for optically coupling to a mating terminus device, comprising a plurality of crimp sleeve assemblies that are each crimped to a location on one of said strength members of a cable and that lies around the jacket of the cable, each of said buffered fibers having a portion extending from a corresponding one of said locations to a corresponding one of said termini; a holder that has channel walls forming a plurality of elongated channels that each has channel bottom and side walls that each holds a single one of said crimp sleeve assemblies to prevent at least rearward movement of the assembly, said channel walls also forming a top wall along each channel through which removal of the crimp sleeve assembly is restricted but through which the crimp sleeve assembly can be removed in a direction perpendicular to the length of said elongated channel, whereby a selected one of said optical fiber cables can be easily removed, together with its terminus, from the rest of the cables and corresponding termini.