FIBER OPTIC CABLE ASSEMBLY FOR INTERCONNECTING OPTICAL FIBERS WITHIN A RECEPTACLE MOUNTED WITHIN THE WALL OF AN ENCLOSURE

摘要

The fiber optic interconnection apparatus includes a receptacle mounted at least partially within a wall of an enclosure, such as an optical network unit, a network interface device or a splice closure, and a fiber optic cable assembly for mating with the receptacle. By mating the fiber optic cable assembly with the receptacle in a predetermined aligned manner, one or more optical fibers of the fiber optic cable on which the fiber optic cable assembly is mounted can be optically interconnected with respective optical fibers held by the receptacle which extend through the receptacle and into the enclosure. Since the optical fibers which extend through the receptacle and into the enclosure may have been previously terminated, such as during the initial configuration of the enclosure in which the optical fibers are spliced or otherwise connected to other optical fibers or to active equipment within the enclosure, the fiber optic interconnection apparatus permits the optical fibers of the fiber optic cable to be appropriately terminated within the enclosure without requiring the enclosure to be opened. The components within the enclosure are therefore protected from damage which might otherwise result from opening the enclosure to terminate the optical fibers.