A cable or fiber path that goes directly from the main hub, central office or main equipment room to a single outlet, closet or subscriber. In FTTH, a home-run design gives each home its own fiber back to the central office, the point-to-point alternative to splitting near the customer. In buildings it means each closet or outlet has its own cable back to the main room rather than daisy-chaining.
Every closet gets a home run back to the MDF, no splicing in the ceilings and no shared cables between floors.
Also heard as
- home-run
Related terms
FTTH
Fiber to the Home: access networks that run fiber all the way into each residence.
PON
Passive Optical Network: a point-to-multipoint fiber network where unpowered splitters share one fiber among many users.
Cable plant
All the passive fiber infrastructure of a network: cable, splices, connectors, panels and closures.
Patch panel
A rack-mounted enclosure of adapters where permanent cable fibers end and jumpers connect them to equipment.