6-Fiber LGX Adapter Panel, 6 Simplex SC/APC Single-Mode (FAP-SM-SCA-6S)

This is a 6-fiber LGX adapter panel loaded with six simplex SC/APC single-mode adapters. It's a 1.6 mm cold-rolled steel plate, 130 by 30 mm, which is the single-width LGX footprint, with the six couplers mounted vertically through it on their plastic flanges. Each adapter has ceramic alignment sleeves and the green housing that marks APC, the 8-degree angled polish that keeps back reflection low, and the SC/APC connectors on the pigtails plug into the back while the patch cords plug into the front, so one plate turns a spliced 6-fiber cable, or half of a 12-fiber one, into 6 SC/APC ports. It's the plate for a PON, a CATV headend, or an RF-over-glass plant, where every connector in the channel has to be APC. It drops into any LGX slot: the RMFP rack-mount splice-and-patch panels, the RMFP-001 patch-only panel, and any other LGX enclosure. It's sold individually. For UPC single-mode SC, the duplex FAP-SM-SC-6D; for the SC/APC pigtails that plug into the back, the PGUSC12-SMA and PGTSC12-SMA; for the cords on the front, the SCASCASM, and for SC/APC to LC/APC, the LCASCASM; for the enclosures, the RMFP-015, RMFP-016, RMFP-018, and RMFP-001, and the WMFP-015 wall-mount APC box.

Features

• Six simplex SC/APC adapters, 6 fibers. Single-mode, green housings, ceramic alignment sleeves.
• APC polish. For PON, FTTx, CATV, and RF-over-fiber plants that need low back reflection.
• LGX footprint. 130 × 30 mm single-width plate; fits standard LGX panels and enclosures.
• Cold-rolled steel, 1.6 mm.
• Vertical couplers on flanges. Each adapter clips through the plate on its own plastic flanges.
• Sold individually.

Where It Fits

It suits an FTTH or FTTB distribution point, where a feeder is spliced out to SC/APC pigtails in the tray behind an LGX panel and comes out as green SC/APC ports for the drops. It suits a CATV headend or a node cabinet on an RF-over-glass plant, where return loss is the spec that matters and every adapter in the rack is APC. Installers building out a PON in a rack-mount splice-and-patch panel use it, and so do contractors who need one APC plate beside the UPC plates in a mixed enclosure to hand off to the service provider. A central office or MDU basement panel on an APC plant is a candidate. It goes with the single-mode bulk fiber, the SC/APC pigtails, the splice trays, and the SC/APC patch cords from the fiber collections, and with the LGX enclosures from the fiber panel collection. For a 1U splice-and-patch panel, the RMFP-015. For 2U, the RMFP-016, and for 4U, the RMFP-018. For a patch-only 1U, the RMFP-001. For a wall-mount APC enclosure, the WMFP-015. For a UPC plant on SC, the FAP-SM-SC-6D. For the pigtails, the PGUSC12-SMA and PGTSC12-SMA. For the cords, the SCASCASM, and for SC/APC to LC/APC, the LCASCASM.

Good to Know

APC and UPC don't mix: a green APC adapter takes only APC connectors, and a blue UPC connector pushed into it meets the angled sleeve with an air gap, high loss, and possible end-face damage to both ferrules, so the pigtails behind the plate and the cords in front of it all have to be APC too. The ports are simplex, so a bidirectional link that needs two fibers is two adjacent ports; on a PON, where one fiber carries both directions, each port is one subscriber feed, which is why APC plates are usually simplex. Six SC ports is what a single-width plate holds with simplex SC, so a 12-fiber APC cable is two of these plates or two slots. Check the LGX slot before you order: 130 by 30 mm is the standard single-width cutout, and this plate is the same footprint as the Corning CCH-CP06-6C, so it fits enclosures built to that pattern; any slot left empty takes the FAP-BLANK blanking plate. The adapters are vertical, so the cords stand up and down and the panel's cable management has to clear them. Plug the pigtails into the back before you mount the plate, since there's more room with the plate in your hand, and keep a dust cap in any adapter without a cord in it. Clean and inspect every connector before it goes into an adapter, with a cleaner and a scope made for angled end faces, and label the plate's ports by fiber number so the tray and the panel agree.

Specifications

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