The 6752 Building Distribution Cabinet (BDC) is a wall-mounted unit used to patch, or patch and splice optical fibers. It accommodates up to 144 connections and can use a wide range of connector types. Cabinets can be ganged together to accommodate capacities greater than 144 connections. The cabinet includes lockable provider-side and customer-side doors, each with a different lock. Buffer tubes, ribbons, and pigtails can be neatly coiled beneath the splice trays and routed to the adaptor plate(s). The BDC includes a back-plate that supports the cable tie down, internal fiber management, splice trays, and an adapter plate. In the 36 and 72 fiber version the entire back-plate can be removed from the wall-mounted box and placed on a table for comfortable splicing. This is a welcome improvement to the old style wall-mount boxes that require splicers to work on their feet within the confines of a box.
These patch and splice units typically come pre-loaded with pre-terminated pigtails routed between the adaptor plate and the splice trays. Standard, 12 fiber, 900um color coded, singlemode or multi mode pigtails are terminated with TIA/EIA standard connectors including FC, LC, SC, and ST. Connectors are loaded into the adaptors and the pigtails are routed directly into the splice trays.
These panels are also available with factory terminated, pre-loaded optical cables. FiberSource’s standard optical cables* may be ordered in specific lengths and terminated with connectors.
The patch and splice units or the pre-stubbed patch units are packaged and shipped completely ready for wall-mounting and cable splicing.