I worked for one company that made fiber to the home equipment and another
that made SONET equipment (again fiber optics based)  We didn't put our own
ends on in either place.  One was a startup and the other a huge
multi-national that had a whole division in another country that made fiber
components.

We just bought a number of jumpers of various lengths and kept them on
hand.  Even our customers often didn't make their own jumpers or put their
own ends on buried cables.  They bought the jumpers and for putting ends on
they would buy pig-tail ends and fusion splice those onto the existing fibers.

So - yes you can do it - but from what I've seen I wouldn't recommend it as
it's just cheaper to inventory what you might need than to buy the equipment.

Dan

At 11:06 AM 12/23/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>If anyone out there makes there own small batches of fiber optic patch
>cables how do you do it? Do you do it all by hand? How difficult is it
>to do? Any suggestions would be great.

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