Brief Description about Fiber Optic Wall Plate

When talking about fiber optic cabling system, the related products that come to our mind firstly are usually fiber optic cables, fiber optic transceivers, connectors or fiber optic transmission products. However, there are still many other components whose importance should not be ignored. Fiber optic wall plate, or outlet, is one of these components, and is also one of the most visible components in a fiber optic cabling system. This text will introduce you this component and offer you the Fiberstore's fiber optic wall plate solution.

What is Fiber Optic Wall Plate?

Fiber optic wall plate is commonly known as fiber wall jack, which is a flat plastic or metal plate that allows connection to fiber cable carrying optical signals, It serves as a transition point between the fiber optic cable and equipment. Fiber optic wall plates are usually mounted in or on walls, but some of them can also be mounted in floors and ceilings. Fiber optic wall plate includes one or more ports, and each port is available with an adapter.

Applications of Fiber Optic Wall Plate

Fiber optic wall plates are designed to bring fiber to the desk and widely used in multi-floor and high building. It can be found in:

FTTH access
Telecommunication
CATV
Data Communication Networks etc.

Types of Fiber Optic Wall Plate

Fiber optic wall plates come in many different types according to their adapter type, port number and faceplate interface.

According to the faceplate interface of the plates, there are bevel fiber optic wall plates and hybrid fiber optic wall plates.

Fiber optic wall plates can contain one or more adapters. The number of ports a plate can have is based on the size of the plate. Here listed some of the fiber optic wall plates:

Single port fiber optic wall plates
2-port fiber optic wall plates
3-port fiber optic wall plates
4-port fiber optic wall plates
6-port fiber optic wall plates
8-port fiber optic wall plates
12-port fiber optic wall plates

The following picture shows a 4 ports wall plate.

To satisfy different demands during cabling, sundry kinds of adapters could be installed on fiber optic wall plates. And these adapters could be the same ones or different. If classified by the adapters, the types of fiber optic wall plates will be various. Parts of the fiber optic wall plates classified by the adapters are listed as following:

FC fiber optic wall plates outlets
SC fiber optic wall plates outlets
ST fiber optic wall plates outlets
LC fiber optic wall plates outlets
SC-ST fiber optic wall plates outlets
RJ45-SC fiber optic wall plates outlets
SC-ST-LC fiber optic wall plates outlets
FC-SC-ST-LC fiber optic wall plates outlet

Fiberstore's Fiber Optic Wall Plate Solution

Fiberstore supplies different types of fiber optic wall plates, including bevel fiber wall plates with 45° adapter plug-in/out angle and hybrid fiber wall plates/outlets. These wall plates are available with LC, SC, ST, FC adapters (or hybrid with RJ45 port) and up to 4 ports. All the wall plates are with high quality and secure to any surface, drywall, baseboard, and even modular furniture.