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by burnte
410 days ago
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Considering the number of fiber splice trucks rolling around I think your supposition is incorrect. Fiber splicing happens thousands of times every day. Fibers break and get cut all the time. Tt's not common in data centers, but once you leave those walls fiber splicing happens everywhere every day. |
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to enable more branching out, or both. Seen yesterday night, had a good chat with the two guys.
I always stop when I see them, to get a better picture of what is where, who owns it, and so on.
Sometimes they even let YOU do the splicing. Which is actually easy, because it's fully automated.
Imagine something like a small suitcase, or a shoebox with LCD-screen on top. You insert both ends into slits on both sides,
the 'box' grabs and aligns them, cuts and repolishes the ends, melds them together, and ejects the fibre through a slot in the front.
Then you sleeve that with tape, insert it into a muffle, apply some hardening foam, sometimes gel, like hot-glue, and close that muffle like a clam shell.
Done.