B2ca / Cca Optipack harness MTP®-LC Dca / Eca Cca Dca / Eca Dca / Eca Characteristics • Ready-to-use plug-and-play cable system • Round Optipack cable construction • Low smoke zero halogen (LSFH™) • Retrofit-able push-pull clip on MTP® for high packing density • Low space consumption in ducts and racks • Easy handling and routing • Fast and safe installation straight from the reel • Scalable for regular MACs • Protective pulling sock supplied • Highest performance singlemode and multimode MTP® LC-XD elite connectivity • CPR compliant, grade Dca Optipack harnesses provide a transition from MTP® connectivity in the backbone to LC duplex connectivity on switches and servers. Instead of using LC patch panels and cords, the harness provides a fast and compact alternative that plugs directly into equipment transceivers. Many of the data centers today are designed with multimode MTP® backbones because this is the most flexible and futureproofed way of adapting from one type of connector to another. Although LC connectivity is still used for 1G and 10G Ethernet applications and 4G, 8G, 16G and 32G fiber channel applications, in the future this will change to MPO connectors that deliver higher data rates over parallel fiber lanes. The most common application for equipment harnesses is connecting high-density SAN switches with hundreds of transceiver ports placed in close proximity. An MTP® patching field can be placed close to the switch and MTP®-LC harnesses make the final connection to the transceivers. This approach not only reduces the amount of cable clutter created by patch cords, but it also provides an MTP® interface that can be re-deployed later for higher data rates. Upgrading from 10G to 40G would require the user to disconnect the MTP®-LC harness and then replace it with an MTP®-MTP® patch cord. If the backbone is built correctly from day 1, there will be no need to install new cables to support the emerging data rates. Equipment harnesses are short cables that are generally only used inside of the rack. However, in some applications it is preferred to eliminate the MTP® patching field altogether and run the cable directly back to the MDA. This approach is less flexible than the equipment harness option but because a connection has been removed from the link, the overall optical performance is better. 118 HUBER+SUHNER Data center
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