LC UPC to Unterminated Fiber Pigtail, 12 Fibers, Bunch, OM3

Projects in the Philippines benefit from keeping the configuration, branch identification and installation requirement consistent across every participating site. This fiber pigtail terminates outside-plant or backbone cable into a connectorized panel: LC UPC to Unterminated Fiber Pigtail, OM3 glass, with a factory-polished LC UPC connector on one end and a prepared fiber strand on the other. Fusion-spliced onto the incoming cable, it turns a raw fiber channel into a documented, testable port.

Product Highlights

• Precision Zirconia Ferrule Connectors Ensure Low Loss
• Support Both Fusion and Mechanical Splicing
• Bend Insensitive Fiber & 7.5mm Min. Bend Radius
• Color-coded for Easy Matching of 0.9mm Fiber to Be Spliced
• Easy-strip 900µm Tight-buffered Coating

Specifications

From raw fiber route to documented port

Every structured cabling plant ends the equivalent way: a cable arrives at a frame, and its fibers must become ports. The pigtail is the component that makes that conversion. Spliced into a tray and presented on a panel, each strand gains a connector with a known optical signature, a mounting point in the documentation and a place in the test record. That conversion - cable to port - is where optical path quality is won or lost.

Mechanical splicing as the field fallback

Where a fusion splicer should not be treated as provided, mechanical splices get the optical path up: the strand cleaves, seats in the mechanical splice body and locks against the field fiber. The loss is higher than a fusion joint and the reflectance worse; as a result, the practice is a fallback rather than a standard - but for urgent restoration work a pigtail that supports both methods keeps the alternative open.

Keeping twelve-fiber splices organized

Multi-fiber splicing rewards method: complete one color fully - strip, clean, cleave, splice, sleeve - before starting the next, and dress each finished strand into the tray in sequence. The color-coded set makes the pairing unambiguous, and the tray stays readable for the next technician who opens it. A tray that reads legibly is a tray that gets re-entered without new faults.

Color coding as a working discipline

Twelve fibers, twelve colors, one order: the TIA-598 sequence is the only thing standing between a tidy splice tray and a crossed plant. The strands in this set follow the standard sequence; as a result, the splicer matches colors between cable and pigtail without guesswork. When the documentation follows the equivalent sequence, a fault on mounting point seven months from now is found in minutes rather than traced strand by strand.

Unjacketed and bunch constructions compared

The unjacketed color-coded set presents twelve separate 0.9mm strands for direct tray work - the lightest design and the easiest to dress. The bunch design gathers the twelve strands under a shared jacket that breaks out near the connector interface end, adding handling protection on the channel between the fiber panel and the tray. Determine unjacketed where the strands stay inside a protected enclosure; determine bunch where the factory-built assembly crosses open space between frames.

Choosing the fiber mode for the plant

Single-mode OS2 serves long links, PON access and any plant where distance or wavelength plans matter; the bend-insensitive glass grade keeps attenuation stable in dense trays. OM3 and OM4 multimode serve equipment rooms and data halls where transceiver cost favors short-reach optics. OM1 and OM2 remain in service in legacy plants and should be matched like-for-like. The pigtail mode must equal the fiber cable plant mode - a mismatch splices poorly and performs worse.

Bend-insensitive glass in dense trays

Splice trays and panel rear spaces punish fiber: tight routing, crowded dressing and the occasional hurried re-entry all bend strands beyond what legacy single-mode tolerated. The bend-insensitive grade used in this pigtail holds attenuation stable at bend radii that would fog conventional glass, which keeps the optical path margin intact after the tenth tray opening, not just at commissioning.

Sparing and kit planning for termination work

Pigtails belong in the termination kit in counted sets with spares: strands break, connectors get contaminated beyond recovery, and a missing spare converts a ten-minute task into a second visit. Plan one spare set per frame mounting point, keep spare strands capped and bagged, and record which set went into which tray so replacement stock may readily be ordered to the identical specification.

A splicing workflow that scales

Productive termination crews work to a fixed routine: mount the tray, dress the fiber cable, splice the pigtails color by color, protect each joint, test each completed port, then close and label. With the routine fixed, a two-person crew terminates a full frame mounting point in a predictable time, and the test record maps cleanly onto the documentation. The consistency additionally makes quality auditable - equivalent materials, equivalent sequence, equivalent pass criteria across every site.

Production Testing and Quality Assurance

Every pigtail is optically tested before packing: insertion loss and return loss are verified on each terminated leg, and the ferrule end faces are inspected for scratches and contamination. The strands ship coiled, capped and bagged, with the test results provided on order.

Placing an Order and Factory Support

Refer to this pigtail by connector, polish, fiber mode, fiber count and design when submitting a request for a quotation. For configurations outside the listed options - mixed connector families, jacket ratings, lengths or project packaging - send the need with the inquiry and the factory will validate the manufacturable specification. Customers in the Philippines can include multi-site labeling or documentation requirements when requesting a project quotation.