6-Fiber LGX Adapter Panel, 6 Simplex ST Multimode (FAP-MM-ST-6S)

This is a 6-fiber LGX adapter panel loaded with six simplex ST multimode adapters, with dust caps for the unused ports. It's a 1.6 mm cold-rolled steel plate, 130 by 30 mm, which is the single-width LGX footprint, with the six bayonet couplers mounted through it. The ST connectors on the pigtails twist onto the back and the patch cords twist onto the front, so one plate turns a spliced 6-fiber multimode cable, or half of a 12-fiber one, into 6 ST ports, which is three duplex links. It's the plate for an older multimode plant that is still on ST and isn't being converted. 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 fibers on LC in the same slot, the FAP-MM-LCG-6DF; for the ST pigtails that twist onto the back, the PGTST12-OM1; for the cords on the front, the STSTOM1 and STSTOM3, and for ST to an LC switch port, the LCSTOM1 and LCSTOM3; for the enclosures, the RMFP-015, RMFP-016, RMFP-018, and RMFP-001.

Features

• Six simplex ST adapters, 6 fibers. Multimode, bayonet couplers, dust caps included.
• LGX footprint. 130 × 30 mm single-width plate; fits standard LGX panels and enclosures in a 19 in rack.
• Cold-rolled steel, 1.6 mm.
• Clip-in adapters. Each coupler can be replaced without changing the plate.
• Sold individually.

Where It Fits

It suits a campus or a plant built on multimode ST in the 1990s and 2000s, where the panels, the media converters, and the switches are still on ST and the closet is being tidied into an LGX enclosure without re-terminating the plant. It suits a telecom room where a 6-fiber building link or three duplex ST circuits need a proper panel instead of a loose coupler bracket. Installers repairing or extending a legacy OM1 or OM3 ST backbone use it, and so do integrators who need one ST plate beside the LC plates in a mixed enclosure so the old gear patches without hybrid cords. A rack that still has ST patch cords in it is a candidate. It goes with the multimode bulk fiber, the ST pigtails, the splice trays, and the ST 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 multimode fibers on LC in the same slot, the FAP-MM-LCG-6DF. For the pigtails, the PGTST12-OM1. For the cords, the STSTOM1 on a 62.5 µm plant and the STSTOM3 on OM3, and for ST to LC gear, the LCSTOM1 and LCSTOM3.

Good to Know

Match the fiber on both sides: the page rates this plate for multimode without naming a grade, and an ST coupler will mate a 62.5 µm OM1 cord to a 50 µm OM3 pigtail without complaint, with the core mismatch loss landing at the panel; keep the pigtails, the cords, and the plant all one grade, and let the jacket color (orange for OM1, aqua for OM3 and OM4) be the cue. It's a multimode plate; for single-mode on ST, check with us first, since the page doesn't cover it. ST is a bayonet connector: push the cord on, turn it a quarter turn until it locks, and tug gently to confirm it seated, since a half-locked ST reads as a high-loss link. The ports are simplex, so a transmit-and-receive pair is two adjacent ports; label which is which, because ST has no duplex clip to keep polarity for you. Six ST ports is what a single-width LGX plate holds, where an LC plate holds 12 or 24 in the same slot, so if the switches have moved to LC and the ST gear is on its way out, the FAP-MM-LCG-6DF with LC-to-ST cords to the old equipment uses the slot 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-CP06-15T and CCH-CP06-G5, so it fits enclosures built to that pattern. Twist the pigtails onto the back before you mount the plate, since there's more room with the plate in your hand, and leave the dust caps on any port without a cord in it. Clean and inspect every ferrule 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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