Warren & Brown Technologies customer premise fibre wall outlet for NBN

Warren & Brown Technologies has developed a fibre wall outlet for the National Broadband Network which is intended to be installed in every household around Australia.The customer premise fibre wall outlet (FWO) houses a single A/SC connector for a single fibre service. A spring-loaded shield covers the connector’s end position, which provides dust protection when it is not in use. The unit has a full-height, clip-on cover and mounts on a standard GPO-style bracket for easy installation. The outlet is supplied in these different colours: ivory, white, light grey, beige and cream.

Generally in an FTTH network the FWO is the interconnection point between the external cable from the premise connection device (PCD) and the optical network terminal (ONT). The Warren & Brown FWO has the facility to store excess fibre, fusion splices or direct patchcord connections.

The variety of options available make the FWO a practical device for use in other fibre-optical networks where a single optical fibre port is required such as offices, data centres and other enterprise networks.

Features and benefits include: part mumber TC4025WB1SAA; removable snap-on cover; storage space for fibre with an allowable MBR of 15 mm; indoor cable can feed in from a number of directions; compatible with four types of customer premise optical cables, eg, 3.0 mm dia (polyethylene sheath), 4.8 mm dia (polyethylene sheath), 3M cable (adhesive-backed optical cable), and drop cable/indoor cable (2.0 x 3.1 mm); can be used with a field-assembled A/SC connector; holder for either a fusion splice or a mechanical splice for connecting the cable to a pigtail; mechanical splice or fusion splice sleeve 4 mm² x 40 mm size can be stored within the wall plate; various mounting methods are available, eg, screw mount or wall mount; build-out mounting blocks (13 and 35 mm deep) allow for rear cable entry and provide some cable storage; compatible and can mount directly onto a standard HPM or Clipsal wallplate.