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CONNECTIONS Q1 2025 7Fiber Splicing1 Fibers being grouped and glued into ribbon. 2 Fibers glued together. 3 Ribbon Splicer. 4 Fibers are spliced and wrapped in the tray of the enclosure. 5 Fiber Enclosure ready to be mounted on strand.Depending on the fiber count of the cable, it is manufactured in different configurations as well. The fibers inside could be packaged as individual fibers (Figure 3, pictured below) or as a ribbon which is a group of 12 fibers glued together (Figure 4, pictured below). The larger fiber count cables use ribbon fiber. This reduces the outside diameter and weight of the cable. Ribbon also allows the fibers to be spliced quicker since instead of splicing one fiber at a time you can splice a ribbon of 12 fibers at a time. No matter which fiber count cable is spliced, the cables are all installed into a Fiber Enclosure, which protects the splices and fibers that were exposed for splicing. The size of the enclosure is dependent on the fiber count and number of cables being installed. The following pictures demonstrate how one enclosure can have multiple, differently spliced cables in it. This one has 864, 432, 192, and 12 fiber count cables in it. The 864 and 192 are manufactured ribbon cables and the 432 and 12 are loose single fibers that needed to be grouped and glued together to make into ribbons to be able to splice. Once the splicing is finished, in this case, the enclosure is then mounted in the air on the strand spanning from pole to pole.12345FIGURE 3: Loose Tube Multi Fiber Cable