I ended up ordering a 50/125 MTP cable pre-terminated on one side with 12 LC connections and MTP on the other side. Then I purchased mtp to 12 LC adapters. I just decided forget it and went unarmored in conduit to a 1U rack mount junction/splice housing on one side and a splice/junction box outside. Then I come out of that with patch cables in flex conduit to each BH. It worked out perfect but you do not want to know what I paid. Are these mtp to 12 LC the 'squids' that you are talking about?
On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Mike Hammett via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote: > Has anyone figured out what the "squids" cost that the mobile guys use? > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Jeremy via Af" <af@afmug.com> > *To: *af@afmug.com > *Sent: *Thursday, September 25, 2014 10:44:26 AM > *Subject: *[AFMUG] Fiber for tower (revisited) > > We are looking to run fiber for all of our licensed backhauls. I have > seen Superior Essex armored fiber recommended before. I had a couple of > questions. Do you usually just use two of the 12 fibers and run one cable > to each backhaul? Do they make a version with just two pair? Is there a > way for me to run the 12 into a box and then splice it out and run 6 > backhauls over it? Would that be the recommended method? > > Then, on to termination....are most of you using the scoring tool and the > field-installable ends that you squeeze to crimp? Are these recommended? > Where is the best place to purchase these ends and tools? I have attached > Mike's video of this process (which makes it look very simple btw) > > http://youtu.be/rKWLCVgkNtM > >
