TETHER ASSEMBLY HAVING INDIVIDUAL CONNECTOR PORTS

摘要

A tether assembly (20) includes a tether cable (22) containing optical fibers and adapted to be attached to a fiber optic distribution cable at a mid-span access location. A furcation (24) at the end of the tether cable separates and transitions the optical fibers into furcation legs (26) terminating in individual connector ports (28). Each connector port may be a receptacle (30) for receiving a connector mounted upon one of the optical fibers and a mating connector (32) of a drop cable (34), a plug mounted upon one of the optical fibers that is received within a plug alignment member operable to align the plug with a mating plug of a drop cable, or a connector that is routed to a receptacle disposed within an external wall of a network connection terminal from within the enclosure. The tether assembly provides a distribution cable assembly and method for mitigating a span length measurement difference in a pre-engineered communications network.