Lucent Technologies Inc.

Jeffrey Jonathan Evans

Siu-Ping Hong

Urmi Ray

Lucius Levear Martin

George J Ryblewski

Richard D Olah

Trudy Murrell Thiele

A cable protector in a telecommunications central office protects cables from damage from contact with cable racks as the cables are pulled from bay to bay. The cable protector is a cardboard-like fiber material that is folded into a planar portion that is dimensioned to fit over the top of the cable rack, and integral side flaps that are each folded into V-shaped channels and serve to grip the sides of the cable rack and hold the protector in place when the protector is placed over the top of the rack.

Cable protector for central office cable rack

Glass preforms are cleaned by contacting each preform (,) with supercritical carbon dioxide which dissolves residual index-matching oil on the preform. The liquefied carbon dioxide is then converted to gaseous carbon dioxide which conveniently separates the index-matching oil so that it can be recovered and reused. The gaseous carbon dioxide is likewise recycled for use in cleaning other preforms, and so there is substantially no waste.

Optical fiber preform cleaning method

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Monmouth Junction, NJ, United States of America

Jeffrey Jonathan Evans