We didn't cut the patch cables for the ends - you can buy the just the
pre-finished ends with a short pigtail of fiber.    And they had to have
the fuser for other connections so that cost wasn't a factor.  And the time
to do the ends is an issue - especially if in the
case of fiber-to-the-home you might be sitting outdoors by a curbside pedestal.

In any case - you can get the ends and do it yourself - but unless you
really plan on doing quite a few of them you can buy a lot of various patch
cables for the cost of the tools to do the ends yourself.



At 01:10 PM 12/23/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Now I'd say that's the expensive route....that fuser is 30 to 50K!!!  You
>can get an epoxy kit and some great testing tools for under 5K..  It's not
>that hard to cleave and polish....one afternoon of doing it and your an
>expert.  UV cure and your not even in a hurry!
>
>Cutting $50 patch cables for the $3.50 ends.....that's a bit harsh....
>
>My 2 cents...
>
>Tim
>
> >>> Dan@OELKE.COM 12/23/03 11:48AM >>>
>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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