What’s an MTP Fiber Optic Connector?

MTP stands for “Multifiber Termination Push-on” connector and it’s designed by USConec and constructed across the MT ferrule. Every MTP accommodates 12 fibers or 6 duplex channels in a connector smaller than most duplex connections in use at this time. It’s designed as a high-performance model of the MPO and can interconnect with MPO connectors.

MTP connector is manufactured particularly for a multifiber ribbon cable. The one mode model has a angled ferrule permitting for minimal again reflection, whereas the multimode connector ferrule is usually flat.

A 72-fiber trunk cable may be terminated with six MTP connectors; relocating a 256-channel ESCON director now requires solely re-plugging 43 connections. Trunk cables terminated with a number of MTP connectors can be found in 4 variations, both 12 fiber/6 channels, 36 fiber/18 channels, 72/36 channels, or 144 fiber/72 channels.

The everyday insertion loss for MTP connectors is zero.25dB. From a design perspective, it’s endorsed to make use of a loss margin of zero.5dB for MTP connections.

Optical alignment is facilitated by a pair of metallic information pins within the ferrule of a male MTP connector, which mate with corresponding holes within the feminine MTP connector.

MTP connector permits high-density connections between community tools in telecommunication rooms. It makes use of a easy push-pull latching mechanism for simple and intuitive insertion and elimination. The top of MTP connector could also be polished flat or at an eight° angle. It’s the identical dimension of a SC connector however since it may well accommodate a most of 12 fibers, it supplies as much as 12 occasions the density, thereby providing financial savings in circuit card and rack house.

Supply by Colin Yao