Patent ID: 7457504

Claim:
A method of routing cables within a splice tray, each cable including an incoming cable portion and an outgoing cable portion, the method comprising the steps of: a) providing a splice tray, the splice tray including a base, a storage arrangement including first and second radius limiting arrangements, and a splice holding arrangement positioned between the first and second radius limiting arrangements; b) positioning a splice component of each cable within the splice holding arrangement, each splice component providing a connection between the incoming cable portion and the outgoing cable portion; c) routing the outgoing cable portion of each cable within an initial one of a number of slack loops defined by the first radius limiting arrangement; d) routing the incoming cable portion of each cable within an initial one of a number of slack loops defined by the second radius limiting arrangement; e) shortening one of the incoming and outgoing cable portions after routing each of the incoming and outgoing cable portions within the initial slack loops; and f) routing the shortened cable portion within a slack loop of the respective radius limiting arrangement that is different than the initial slack loop; g) wherein after routing the shortened cable portion, none of the incoming and outgoing cable portions of the cables, including the shortened cable portion, cross over one another.