Same here.  Plus to meet loss, PMD, PDL and WDL specs, plus overall size
for packaging and a 20 year life, fusion splicing was the only way to go.

Dave


At 12:25 PM 12/23/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>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.

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