Do You Know About MTP/MPO Fiber Cable?

MTP/MPO fiber cable designed for a higher bandwidth transmission. It has two types, the one type is 12-fiber for 40G data transmission while the other type is 24-fiber for 100G data transmission. MTP/MPO fiber cable can meet the huge demand for more bandwidth and more space efficiency of data centers and ever-expanding server clusters. In this article, MTP/MPO connector, MTP/MPO trunk cable and MTP/MPO harness cable will be covered.

What IS MTP/MPO Connector?

The letters MTP/MPO stand for “Multiple-Fiber Push-On/Push-of”. MTP/MPO connector is designed for multi-fiber application. The MTP/MPO connector is manufactured specifically for multi-fiber ribbon cable. Furthermore, it can be divided into different types of female-female, male-male and female-male connectors. The male connector has metal guide pins to ensure fiber alignment when mating while female connector has no pins. A female connector is also known as a jack, outlet, or receptacle. This types of connector attached to a wire, cable, or piece of hardware, having one or more recessed holes. In addition, the push-pull design makes it easy to insert and remove the connector. MTP/MPO connectors have brought great convenience for increased data transmission speeds. Nowadays, they are widely used for 40G and 100G fiber optical communication.

MTP and MPO is literally different but they have the same meaning. The MTP is a registered trade mark of US, which identifies a specific brand of the MPO style connector. The MPO connector is a multi-fiber connector that is defined by IEC-61754-7. The two kind of name are interchangeable most of the time.

Information About MTP/MPO Trunk Cable

MTP/MPO trunk cable is mainly constructed by two parts, one part is the MTP/MPO connectors while the other part is the fibers. The former part is clear in the above statements. The rest part-fibers would be introduced in this paragraph. The fibers used for MTP/MPO trunk cables can be classified into OM1, OM2, OM3 and OM4. MTP/MPO trunk cable is designed for high density applications which offers excellent benefits in terms of on-site installation time and space saving. Trunk cables serve as a permanent link connecting the MTP/MPO modules to each other.

The MPO/MTP trunk cables are constructed from loose tube, gel-filled indoor/outdoor rated cables and are used to interconnect cassettes, panels or ruggedized MTP/MPO fan-outs, spanning MDA, HDA and EDA zones. Excepting from this, the initial installation and ongoing maintenance costs MTP/MPO trunk cables are greatly reduced with their efficient plug design.

Common Types of MTP/MPO Harness Cable

A MTP/MPO harness cable, also called MTP/MPO breakout cable or MTP/MPO fan-out cable, is constructed by two parts as same as MTP/MPO trunk cable. But the difference is that MTP/MPO harness cables consist of two different ends, the one end are MTP/MPO connectors while the other end are LC/FC/SC/ST/MTRJ connectors (generally MTP to LC). Thus, the MTP/MPO harness cable is most commonly divided into MTP to MTP conversion cable, MTP/MPO-Secure Keyed LC harness cable and MTP/MPO-Standard LC/FC/SC/ST/MTRJ harness cable. MTP/MPO harness cables are designed to support high-speed parallel data transfer. They are available with at most 144 fibers which can be applied to the high-density networking and devices of 100G transceivers as CFP, CFP2 and CFP4.

Summary

MTP/MPO trunk cable and MTP/MPO harness cable are two common types of MTP/MPO fiber cable, and they are different in two aspects, functions and applications. If you are looking for a higher application to save time and space, MTP/MPO trunk cable is highly recommended. When the high performance and speedy installation is required, and then MTP/MPO harness cable is an ideal one. You can select a proper one to satisfy your need.