A warm welcome to today’s Vlog. Today, we’re going to be talking about splicing again. In one of our earlier videos, we looked at the differences between ribbon and single-fibre splice solutions. Today, we’re going to look at this in more detail using the example of our VersaTray® distribution and splice system. Next to me, I have Jochen, a highly experienced colleague from the Service department. He does a lot of on-site work for customers and a lot of splicing and can tell us all about the differences that we can see in VersaTray® between the two splice modules that we have with us here. Jochen, maybe you’d like to show us the modules.
Jochen Hart: Of course. Here, I’ve already fixed on a cable gland through which we can guide any cable. That could be a single-fibre splice cable or a ribbon cable. And here I’m holding the first splice cassette. From the outside, it’s difficult to imagine what it contains. But when we take a look inside, we can clearly see that it’s a single-fibre splice cassette. The basic idea is that we insert our cable into it from behind, separate everything, insert the loose tube into the splice cassette through the small tube, do the splicing and then place the splice down in the splice holder. And of course, we have the same thing for ribbon splices. I also have a second splice cassette here. It looks identical and everything is hidden under the cover. Here, we have the shrink-on splice protection that we need for the ribbon. And in here, it’s exactly the same as before. The ribbon goes in through the small tube and here on the inside, we have our pigtails with a ribbon cable and it’s a simple job to splice the 12-fiber ribbons to the 12-fiber pigtail ribbons.
That’s very interesting. I’ve seen splice systems where you stack cassettes on top of one another. That’s not what’s going on here in this splice cassette. It can be assembled without tools. What other advantages are there?
Jochen Hart: The greatest advantages are - We are modular at the level of the connectors. That means that we can splice an MPO connector. And then we can splice an LC connector. E-2000®, SC. Whatever our customers want, they can get it from us and we don’t have to decide whether we’re going to use a single-fibre cable or a ribbon cable. Because our system supports both possibilities and we can do all the splicing from the back or from the front. It doesn’t matter what the challenges at the customer’s premises are, whether we can position ourselves behind or in front, we always have both possibilities.
That means I can always get to the cassettes, whether from the back or from the front. I can always access them.
Jochen Hart: Exactly. We can perform installation from the front, pull the splice cassette out forwards. We can pull it out to the back and don’t have to worry about where we’re standing and whether we’ll be able to reinstall it or not.
All in all, it’s extremely flexible.
Jochen Hart: Precisely.
Thank you very much for this short introduction. Many thanks to you, the viewers, for the time you have taken to watch us. I hope that you can join us again next time. There are undoubtedly still many interesting topics on the theme of fibre optics that we can look at together. It’s been well worthwhile so far. Best wishes and goodbye.
More information about VersaTray® you can find here.
