12-Fiber LGX Adapter Panel, 6 Duplex SC/UPC Single-Mode (FAP-SM-SC-6D)

This is a 12-fiber LGX adapter panel loaded with six duplex SC/UPC 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 horizontally through it on their plastic flanges. Each adapter has ceramic alignment sleeves and the blue housing that marks UPC, and the SC connectors on the pigtails plug into the back while the patch cords plug into the front, so one plate turns a spliced 12-fiber cable into 12 SC ports. 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 the same 12 fibers on LC, the FAP-SM-LCU-6DF; for the 12-fiber SC pigtails that plug into the back, the PGUSC12-SM and PGTSC12-SM; for the cords on the front, the SCSCSM, and for SC to an LC switch port, the LCSCSM; for the enclosures, the RMFP-015, RMFP-016, RMFP-018, and RMFP-001.

Features

• Six duplex SC/UPC adapters, 12 fibers. Single-mode, blue housings, ceramic alignment sleeves.
• LGX footprint. 130 × 30 mm single-width plate; fits standard LGX panels and enclosures.
• Cold-rolled steel, 1.6 mm.
• Horizontal couplers on flanges. Each adapter clips through the plate on its own plastic flanges.
• Sold individually.

Where It Fits

It suits a telecom room or a carrier handoff where the single-mode plant is on SC and a 12-fiber cable is spliced to SC pigtails in the tray behind an LGX panel and comes out as 12 SC ports on the front. It suits a campus backbone or an enterprise entrance facility that standardized on SC years ago and is adding capacity without converting to LC. Installers filling the LGX slots in an RMFP panel a cable at a time use it, and so do techs replacing a damaged SC plate in an existing LGX enclosure. A wall-mount box with an LGX cutout on an SC plant is a candidate. It goes with the single-mode bulk fiber, the SC pigtails, the splice trays, and the SC 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 an LC plant, the FAP-SM-LCU-6DF. For the pigtails, the PGUSC12-SM and PGTSC12-SM. For the cords, the SCSCSM, and for SC to LC, the LCSCSM.

Good to Know

UPC is the flat-polish adapter, blue, and it mates with UPC pigtails and UPC cords; an APC connector, green, in a UPC adapter gives an air gap at the angled face and a loss spike, so on a PON or an RF-over-glass plant the panel has to be APC too. This is a single-mode panel; a multimode SC will physically fit, but the sleeves and the blue coding are for 9/125 µm fiber, and a mixed panel invites a wrong patch. SC is a bigger connector than LC, so 12 SC ports is the most a single-width LGX plate holds, where the LC version holds the same 12 with room to spare; if the rack is short on slots and the switches are on LC anyway, the FAP-SM-LCU-6DF with LC-to-SC cords to the old gear uses the slots better. 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-CP12-59, so it fits enclosures built to that pattern; a double-width slot takes two of these or a blank filler beside one. The adapters are horizontal, so the duplex cords lie side by side across the slot and the panel's cable management has to clear them to the left and right. Plug the pigtails into the back before you mount the plate, since there's more room with the plate in your hand, and keep every adapter's dust caps in until a cord goes in. Keep the A and B fibers of each duplex pair in the right positions on the back so the front polarity comes out as the as-built says. Clean and inspect every connector before it goes into an adapter, and label the plate's ports by fiber number so the tray and the panel agree.

Specifications

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