Patent ID: 8891926

Claim:
A method of preparing connectorized ends in a multi-fiber, fiber optic cable to provide a multi-fiber, fiber optic cable system, comprising: providing a multi-fiber, fiber optic cable at a length; windowing a section of the multi-fiber, fiber optic cable at a first access point to expose optical fibers disposed in the multi-fiber, fiber optic cable; placing at least a portion of the exposed optical fibers from the windowed section of the multi-fiber, fiber optic cable into at least one channel in an interior space of a double ferrule having a first end and a second end, the optical fibers exposed through both the first end and the second end of the double ferrule to form a double ferrule assembly; fixing an ordering of the optical fiber disposed in the double ferrule assembly in a fixed ordering; and cutting the double ferrule assembly between the first end of the double ferrule and the second end of the double ferrule to provide a first ferrule having a first end face and a second ferrule having a second end face, wherein the optical fibers disposed through the first end face and the optical fibers disposed through the second end face both have the fixed ordering, wherein the double ferrule further comprises a first tab extending in a first plane along a longitudinal axis of the double ferrule and a second tab extending in a second plane parallel to the first plane along the longitudinal axis of the double ferrule, further comprising folding the first tab and the second tab into the interior space of the double ferrule after the fixing the order of the optical fibers.