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

This is a 6-fiber LGX adapter panel loaded with six simplex 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 vertically 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 6-fiber cable, or half of a 12-fiber one, into 6 SC ports. It's the plate for a small single-mode SC entry, or for a panel where each fiber is patched on its own rather than as a pair. 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 12 SC/UPC ports on duplex adapters, the FAP-SM-SC-6D; for an APC plant, the FAP-SM-SCA-6S; for the SC pigtails that plug into the back, the PGUSC12-SM, PGTSC12-SM, and the 6-fiber PGTSC6-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 simplex SC/UPC adapters, 6 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.
• Vertical couplers on flanges. Each adapter clips through the plate on its own plastic flanges.
• Sold individually.

Where It Fits

It suits a small single-mode entry, such as a 6-fiber drop into a building or a tenant space, where the cable is spliced to SC pigtails in the tray behind an LGX panel and comes out as six SC ports on the front. It suits a telecom room or a carrier handoff on SC where the circuits are single fibers, such as a bidirectional single-fiber link or a handful of simplex monitoring runs, and a duplex coupler would pair ports that don't belong together. Installers filling one LGX slot for a 6-fiber cable use it, and so do techs who want one simplex SC plate beside the duplex ones so the odd single-fiber circuits have a home. A wall-mount box with a single LGX cutout on a 6-fiber single-mode drop 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 12 SC ports paired on duplex adapters, the FAP-SM-SC-6D. For an APC plant, the FAP-SM-SCA-6S. For the pigtails, the 6-fiber PGTSC6-SM or the 12-fiber 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 green FAP-SM-SCA-6S is the plate to buy instead. 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. Simplex or duplex is the choice between this plate and the FAP-SM-SC-6D: a duplex coupler holds a transmit-and-receive pair side by side and keeps polarity for you, which is what most two-fiber Ethernet links want, while a simplex plate suits single-fiber circuits or a panel where the pairing changes; the duplex plate also holds 12 fibers in the slot where this one holds 6. 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-CP06-3C, 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. If two ports make a pair, label them, since a simplex plate has no clip to keep polarity for you. 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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