Inside Plant: FieldSmart FDS Patch Panels

Industry-leading density with superior fiber access




Ranging from 24-ports in a 1RU panel to an industry-leading 288-ports in 11 inches, FieldSmart FDS maximizes your use of real estate on the frame. With a completely symmetrical product design, route diversity is maximized, minimizing the risk of cable pile up.

By utilizing the Clearview Cassette, service providers can integrate patch only, patch and splice, as well as optical component modules into the same chassis, allowing plug and play integration based upon the configuration requirements of the application.

FieldSmart revolutionizes on-frame splicing as the system supports a whopping 1728-ports of on-frame patch and splice. Because FieldSmart was designed with the field engineer in mind, port density does not come at the expense of slack storage. The rear cover of the panel doubles as the slack storage basket.

Beyond port and cassette count, all FieldSmart chassis’ provide the same feature and benefits throughout:

  • 19”/23” rack mount choices dedicated at time of configuration
  • Rear slack basket for patch & splice applications
  • Front or rear load options
  • Sliding top cover for improved access and physical fiber protection
  • Horizontal and segregated routing for each cassette
  • Complete bend radius protection
  • Removable front cover and desi card for easy port identification and physical fiber protection

FDS Tie Panels

Provides an in the field configured interconnect or cross-connect environment for 12 to 288-ports of high-density fiber in central office/headend environments.

The FieldSmart FDS Tie Panel is a high density, low maintenance fiber distribution panel for use in a 23” or 19” frame. Tie panels are intelligently designed to provide the user with superior fiber access while using craft-friendly radius protected fiber management for routing and deploying fiber jumpers or multifiber cables, on both sides of the adapter plate for cross-connect environments. Removable adapter plates.

  • RUS listed
  • Compliant to Telcordia GR-449
  • Supports all industry standard SM/MM connectors