SteelPatch Armored MPO Breakout Cables utilize the world’s most economical high density solution, the MPO connector. Originally developed to reduce the amount of individual fiber splices and connections, the MPO connector has since become the standard form factor used in popular high performance optical transceivers.

SteelPatch Armored MPO Breakout Cables are therefore most commonly used in the migration from 10G to 40G and 100G rates. For example, a common practice involves the aggregation of 4x10G SFP+ to 1x40G QSFP or 10x10G SFP+ to 1x100G CXP/CPAK rates. Alternative uses include the consolidation of numerous duplex LC cables to a convenient set of MPO connectors or directly accessing the internal fibers of MPO trunk connections with LC connectors.