ASCEND® Patch Cassettes are pre-loaded with MPO adapters or VFL-compatible shuttered LC adapters.

Available in BASE-8 and BASE-12 configurations, patch cassettes install easily from the front or rear of any standard ASCEND housing. Each cassette independently mounts onto a sliding tray which allows access to individual connections while minimizing disruption to other fiber connections.

MPO patch cassettes are most frequently used when mating MPO trunk cables to extender trunks or to trunk harnesses, and when connecting MPO trunk cables to MPO jumpers using QSFP (Quad Small Form-actor Pluggable) transceivers. LC patch cassettes are used to connect one duplex LC cable assembly to another. This is a convenient, plug-and-play solution when you need to introduce a small number of fibers to the network at various times.