Durable multi-fiber service terminal eases FTTX drop cable deployment

April 21, 2005 Minneapolis, MN -- ADC has introduced its OmniReach multi-fiber service terminal (MST), adding to the company's portfolio of infrastructure platforms for FTTX networks. Designed to withstand extreme outside plant conditions while accelerating drop deployment in optical access networks, the MST features factory terminated, environmentally sealed connector housings.

Through a technology transfer agreement with Corning Cable Systems, ADC manufactures and integrates its OptiTap "ruggedized" connector housings into all OmniReach MST units. Available in 2, 4, 6, 8, and 12 port versions, the self-contained unit's hardened connectors ensure durability and reliability in the drop segment of a network, according to the manufacturer. Requiring no physical enclosure, the unit may be pole, slab, pedestal, or aerial mounted.

The company says its OmniReach family of infrastructure products enables telecommunications service providers with flexibility in managing their FTTP and FTTN equipment, including expensive central office-based electronics used to transmit signals to individual homes. Other OmniReach products include fiber distribution terminals, fiber access terminals, passive optical splitter modules, and wavelength division multiplexer modules.