Fiber pigtail

Fibre cables need to have connectors fitted before they can attach to other equipment. Pigtails and fanout kits are two different solutions to terminate the fibre with connectors.

A fibre pigtail is a single short, usually unbuffered, optical fibre that has an optical connector on one end and a length of exposed fibre at the other end.

The end of the pigtail is stripped and fusion spliced to a single fibre of a multi-fibre trunk to break out the multi-fibre cable into its component fibres for connection to the end equipment.

Pigtails can have female connectors and be mounted in a patch panel, often in pairs although single-fibre solutions exist, to allow them to be connected to endponts or other fibre runs with patch fibres. Alternatively they can have male connectors and plug directly into an optical transceiver.

July 12, 2011

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