Patent ID: 7756371

Claim:
An optical fiber interconnection device, comprising: a twenty-four-port connector having ports P 24 (i) for i=1 to 24, wherein ports i=1 to i=12 are located in a first row of the twenty-four-port connector and ports i=13 to i=24 are located in second row of the twenty-four-port connector; first, second and third eight-port connectors respectively having ports 1P 8 (j), ports 2P 8 (j) and ports 3P 8 (j) for j=1 to 8; and an array of optical fibers configured to connect the ports as follows for j=1 to 8 (where {a1, b1 . . . } {a2, b2 . . . } denotes connecting a1 to a2, b1 to b2, etc): i) {1 P 8 (j)} {P 24 (1), P 24 (23), P 24 (3), P 24 (21), P 24 (5), P 24 (19), P 24 (7), P 24 (17)}; ii) {2P 8 (j)} {P 24 (9), P 24 (15), P 24 (11), P 24 (13), P 24 (2), P 24 (24), P 24 (4), P 24 (22)}; and iii) {3P 8 (j))} {P 24 (6), P 24 (20), P 24 (8), P 24 (18), P 24 (10), P 24 (16), P 24 (12), P 24 (14)}.