said by buckweet1980:My question is really around the aerial closures. These closures offer splice points. In these closures do they fully cut the fiber cable and splice every strand? Or do they just pull out strands from the fiber cable that is just needed for that respective service terminal? Does anyone know how many strands are typically in a fiber cable? 32, 64?
The fiber cable that VZ uses is made up of multlples of 12 strands. The cable is armored for protection from the elements and can contain many 12 strand ribbons. 12 hair thin strands are encased in a plastic ribbon 1/8 " wide and a few mm. thick. Fiber hubs are configured with a fiber stub that terminates in a splice case. The hubs can serve 432 or more end points. The fiber from the central office is fusion spliced 12 strands at a time to the stub coming from the hub in the splice case. The fiber going towards the end points from the splice case is distributed throughout the serving area and is terminated patch terminals of 6, 12 or more. In the hub the fiber gong to any end point can be patched to any fiber coming from any 32 point splitter