Charles Industries Introduces Fiber Interconnect Pedestals for Multi-Tenant Applications.

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. -- Charles Industries today announced the expansion of its Charles Fiber Distribution Point (CFDP) family of environmental enclosures with the addition of a new line of Fiber Interconnect Pedestals. The new buried distribution pedestals are designed to provide pre-connectorized interconnect fiber drops to a variety of multi-tenant sites such as cellular towers, campus environments and strip malls.

CFDP Interconnect Pedestals serve as environmentally protected fiber distribution points for wireless backhaul, private network, and broadband service applications. Each pedestal houses fiber splice trays and a bulkhead with 18 or 24 SC/UPC or SC/APC adapters for simplified fiber provisioning. Technicians have above-grade access to the full splicing and distribution work area, allowing them to turn-up, move or disconnect services to wireless customers on an "as needed" basis. This gives service providers added flexibility in their efforts to meet their customers' bandwidth requirements as they fluctuate due to seasonality or major events.

"With many of our customers involved in wireless backhaul and other high-capacity fiber projects, we were asked to draw on our 30 years of pedestal design experience and create a specialized fiber distribution pedestal for these applications," explains Dick Hood, Vice President of Charles' Outside Plant Business Unit. "CFDP Interconnect Pedestals allow service providers to quickly and easily distribute T1, Ethernet and other high bandwidth services in a wide range of environments at a fraction of the cost of placing a light guide cross-connect (LGX)."

Charles has introduced two sizes of CFDP Interconnect pedestals: the 10" diameter CFDP-EL18 with an eighteen-count SC/UPC or SC/APC adapter bulkhead and the 12" diameter CFDP-EL24 with a twenty four-count SC/UPC or SC/APC adapter bulkhead. Both versions may be ordered with optional kits that provide 900 micron, color-coded SC/UPC or SC/APC pigtails on the distribution side of the splicing backboard.

All CFDP pedestals offer two-stage environmental protection of fiber distribution points. This two-stage patent-pending protection is accomplished by housing a weather-tight interior enclosure within the confines of a non-metallic buried distribution pedestal. Together, this "enclosure within an enclosure" combination is designed to exceed Telcordia GR-771-CORE specifications and provide an unbeatable line of defense against the elements, including floods, fire, dirt, debris, insects, and corrosion.

About Charles Industries

Charles Industries, Ltd., is a privately held, diversified manufacturing and high-technology company. It is ISO 9000 and TL 9000 certified, and employs more than 600 individuals in its Rolling Meadows, Illinois, corporate headquarters and five U.S.-based manufacturing plants. Charles designs, manufactures and sells quality, innovative solutions worldwide through its Telecommunications, Marine and Industrial Groups. For further information, please visit http://www.charlesindustries.com or call [phone].