Equipment and Cable Installation for Metropolis
®
DMXtend
Shelf Horizontal Bay Mount
OC-3/OC-12 Main Optical Fiber Cable
Installation
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Lucent Technologies - Proprietary
See notice on first page
365-372-327 R2.0
Issue 1, October 2003
Procedure
Step 1
Route the optical fiber cables from the interconnecting equipment into
the left side of the Metropolis
®
DMXtend. See Table 1-27, Optical
Important!
Protective covers must be left on cables.
Important!
Enough slack must be left in the fibers to allow them
to be moved out of the way of the A/B 1 and 2 slots to allow circuit
pack insertion and removal in those slots if required.
Figure 1-27 Optical Fiber routing
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Step 2
Place the optical fiber cables in a protective tube or channel.
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Step 3
Label the optical fiber cables, indicating bay, shelf, pack, and direction
(
IN
or
OUT
). See Appendix F, Fiber Labeling for more details.