12-Strand LC/UPC OM3 Multimode Fiber Pigtail, Removable Jacket, 3 Meter (PGTLC12-OM3)

This is a 12-fiber multimode OM3 LC/UPC pigtail, 3 meters long, with a removable aqua outer jacket. Each of the 12 OM3 50/125 µm fibers has a factory-tested LC/UPC connector on one end and bare fiber on the other for fusion or mechanical splicing. The jacket protects the bundle on the way from the box to the tray and can be stripped back as far as you need, so the strands fan out loose where the space is tight and stay bundled where it isn't. The LC end plugs straight into an adapter panel, so a 12-fiber OM3 cable spliced to this pigtail becomes 12 LC ports in one tray. OM3 carries 10 Gigabit Ethernet to 300 meters. It's sold individually, as one 12-strand pigtail. For the same OM3 pigtail with no jacket at 2 meters, the PGULC12-OM3; for OM4 or single-mode in the same jacketed LC style, the PGTLC12-OM4 and PGTLC12-SM; for OM3 on SC, the jacketed PGTSC12-OM3; for the enclosure, the RMFP rack-mount panels and the WMFP wall-mount boxes.

Features

• 12 fibers, LC/UPC. Multimode OM3, 50/125 µm, with a UPC connector on each strand.
• 10 Gigabit to 300 meters. OM3 laser-optimized fiber.
• Removable jacket. Strip it back for a tight bend radius in a cramped enclosure, or leave it on for a longer route to the tray.
• Factory-tested. Low insertion loss and return loss.
• For fusion or mechanical splicing. Bare fiber at the splice end.
• Aqua. The standard color for OM3.
• 3 meter length.
• Sold individually. One 12-strand pigtail.

Where It Fits

It suits a building backbone or a data center interconnect running 10 Gigabit over OM3 between closets or rows, where LC is the port on the switch and the panel and the tray is a rack unit or two away from the adapters. It suits fiber distribution units and optical distribution frames in a telecom room, and splice trays in a wall-mount box on a campus backbone. Crews who want the bundle protected on the route from the splice tray to the adapter plate use it, and so do installers adding LC capacity to an existing OM3 plant where the trunk arrives at the back of a deep cabinet. A high-density panel where 12 LC ports have to come out of one tray is a candidate. It goes with the OM3 bulk fiber, the multimode LC adapters, the splice trays and sleeves, and the fusion splicer from the fiber collections. For the unjacketed 2 meter OM3 version, the PGULC12-OM3. For OM4 and 40G or 100G, the jacketed PGTLC12-OM4. For single-mode LC in the same jacketed style, the PGTLC12-SM. For an OM3 plant on SC, the jacketed PGTSC12-OM3. For rack-mount splice panels, the RMFP-016 and RMFP-018. For a wall-mount box, the WMFP-011. For the OM3 patch cords on the other side of the panel, the LCLCOM3, and for LC to SC, the LCSCOM3.

Good to Know

Match the fiber, not just the connector: this is OM3 50/125 µm multimode, and it has to be spliced to 50 µm OM3 or OM4 cable and patched with OM3 or OM4 cords. Splicing it to 62.5 µm OM1 or to single-mode fiber puts a core mismatch at the splice, with loss that no amount of cleaning will fix; the aqua jacket and aqua cords are the visual cue that you're on 50 µm laser-optimized fiber. OM3 carries 10GBASE-SR to 300 meters and Gigabit well beyond that; for new 10 Gigabit runs over 300 meters, or for 40G and 100G, the OM4 version on OM4 cable is the better plan. Decide how much jacket to remove before you cut: the jacket is the strength member and the snag guard, so leave it on for the length of the route between the adapter plate and the tray and strip it only where the strands have to fan out and bend, which is usually the last foot or so at the tray. A 3 meter pigtail gives you a meter more than the unjacketed version for exactly that reason; coil the excess in the slack ring rather than cutting it short. Strip the buffer and the coating back to bare fiber, cleave, splice to the incoming cable, and seat the sleeve in the tray; set the splicer for multimode. Dress the bundle and tie it loosely to the tray so the connectors aren't carrying the fibers' weight, and keep the bend radius generous even where the strands are bare. Splice in the standard color sequence, blue through aqua for fibers 1 through 12, and match it to the incoming cable's buffer tubes so the as-built is honest. Clean and inspect every LC connector before it goes into an adapter, and keep the dust caps on until then; an LC ferrule is small and a speck of dust covers a lot of it.

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