Optical Cabling Systems Tour


 

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This is a branched fan for use with MPOs, single fiber connectors or combinations of connectors.  Color indicates this is likely anOM2,  OM3, or OM4 assembly.  We do thousands of custom breakouts every year on this type of product.

We also do many simplex and duplex jumpers every day too, a growing number of them single mode.

Barcoded Products

OCS trackss every cable assembly with a barcoded identifier tag.  The barcode tag is used at various stages of production to identify the product. For example, insertion loss testing will have the barcode read to identify the product at the test station.  Barcodes are also used on product receiving identifier tags, purchase orders, bin locations, production travelers, and so on.

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Here are some s ingle mode harnesses! Looks like there will be a pulling eye, too, all made to our customer's drawing and specifications.

We could be making products like these to your specifications!

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We use a variety of printers and methods to label cable, bags, boxes, pallets, and whatever else a customer might need.  These are tne newest of the many printers OCS uses to label your products and your products's packaging.

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A typical insertion loss test set consisting of both a single mode and a multimode Insertion Loss (IL) and Return Loss (RL) module with wide a aperture sensor. The systems are computer controlled and all test data is saved by bar-coded serial number to an SQL database.

These state of the art test sets are made by EXFO, Inc. and JGR Optics.

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An example of the modular nature of the EXFO IQS-510P and IQS-610P mainframes. This 610 mainframe is loaded with an IL/RL module and a 24 channel optical switch. The optical switch, under software control, allows sequenced testing of up to 24 channels with the push of a button.

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We have customers who have furcation tubing heat treated (some call it annealing) prior to use. Currently we have two small ovens to carry out this task for cut lengths of furcation tube.

This step is carried out when this requirement is part of a customer's build process.  We build all products to match our customer's needs.

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These days customers demand higher and higher density within metal rack units.  Here 288 LC connectors are packed into a single 2RU box.  OCS has provided 2RU boxes of varying densities to our customers.

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Another 2RU configuration with duplexed LC adapters.

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We can make cassettes for you, make rack units, and can include your metal designs in a variety of ways, or supply your own metal and we will complete the product.  This is a generic OCS cassette design which can be used by you to prototype or, as some customers will do, simply use as your own product.

We have also created several proprietary custom designs for customers who have special needs for metal rack units, inserts, and cassettes.

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Coiled duplex optical cable assemblies are readied for final packaging prior to being shipped to be put to use by our customer's customer on cell towers.

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Finished, inspected, and tested product is being packaged prior to labeling and the addition of other materials specified by our customer as our customer's product is sent to their their customer.

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Every termination is visually inspected after the polishing step.  Here we see a duplex cable assembly getting checked.  Each connector will be visually inspected at least one more time in addition to other testing specified by the customer.

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Epoxy is cured by heat at a controlled temperature for a controlled length of time. Here are some jumpers being "cooked" for either our default time and temperature or, if specified, the time, temperature, and epoxy of our customer.

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Through the use of metering machines the correct amount of epoxy is injected into individual connectors.  Next step? These will be assembled to the prepared and stripped cable strands to make a cable assembly.

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The first step of making a harness is getting the breakouts made to length and ready for custom stripping and polishing.  Cable ends are stripped in accordance with manufacturer's recommendations through the use of computer linked control cards which contain individualized steps for the strip and crimping process.

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OCS customer's have a wide variety of cable spooling needs. No matter what your packaging process specifies we follow it. Here are a variety of spooling methods.  We spool into open coils for bagging or onto reels.

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A specialized and delicate assembly made for our customer for their customer.

These small ribbon assemblies are an example of a product which requires special coiling methods.

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Optical Cabling Systems carries well over a million dollars of inventory in addition to stocking plans where vendors maintain safety stock at OCS for immediate transfer and customer supplied parts belonging to individual customers.

As an OCS customer you can benefit from having your own parts stocked by OCS, as well as materials stocked by OCS and OCS supply chain partners.

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Another day in the stockroom customer supplied cable has been been reeled for their custom assemblies which will be processed and shipped to the specifications of the customer.