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About Fiber optic pigtail

Fiber optic pigtail is a piece of cable terminated with fiber optic connectors at only one side of the cable while leave the other side no connectors, so that the connector side can link to the equipment and the other side can be melted with optical cable fibers. Fiber optic pigtails are usually used with fiber optic management equipment like ODF, splice closures and cross cabinets. Commonly used fiber optic pigtail types are SC, FC, LC, ST, MU, E2000 and MTRJ. They are single mode types and multimode types.

Fan out fiber optic pigtails are multi fiber cable assemblies, usually it is made from a multi fiber count cable, in the middle of the cable we use the splitting kits to make the fan out pigtails, such cable is usually 1XN structure, like MTP to 12 LC, sometimes there are also NXN types, like 12LC to 12LC. Usually the simplex fiber optic pigtails used inside management equipment use 0.9mm outer diameter cable, there is waterproof fiber optic pigtails used for outdoor applications, this fiber optic pigtail is with thick PE jacket and big diameter.