The difference between fiber patch cords and pigtails

Fiber jumpers from equipment used to make fiber-optic cabling to link the jumper cables. A thick layer of protection, usually used in the connection between the Optical and the terminal box.

Pigtail wire pigtail known, only one end of the connector, the other end is a cable core of breakage, fusion and other fiber optic cable through the core is connected, it often occurs within the fiber optic terminal box, cable and fiber optic transceivers for connection device (also used between the coupler, jumpers, etc.).

Optical fiber and optical fiber connector is detachable between (active) connection device, which is the fiber end face precision docking of the two together to make the launch fiber output power to maximize the light coupled into the fiber to the receiver, and to intervene because of its optical link and the system to minimize the impact, which is the basic requirement of fiber optic connectors. To a certain extent, also affected the fiber optic connector optical transmission system reliability and the performance.