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Fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components - Fibre optic connector
interfaces - Part 7-2: Type MPO connector family - Two fibre rows (IEC 61754-7-2:2017)
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EUROPEAN STANDARD EN IEC 61754-7-2

NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
March 2018
ICS 33.180.20 Supersedes EN 61754-7:2008 (partially)
English Version
Fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components -
Fibre optic connector interfaces - Part 7-2: Type MPO connector
family - Two fibre rows
(IEC 61754-7-2:2017)
Dispositifs d'interconnexion et composants passifs Steckgesichter von Lichtwellenleiter-Steckverbindern - Teil
fibroniques - Interfaces de connecteurs fibroniques - Partie 7-2: Steckverbinderfamilie der Bauart MPO - Zwei
7-2: Famille de connecteurs de type MPO - Deux rangées Faserreihen
de fibres (IEC 61754-7-2:2017)
(IEC 61754-7-2:2017)
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European foreword
The text of document (86B/4099/FDIS), future edition 1 of IEC 61754-7-2, prepared by IEC/SC 86B:
“Fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components”, of IEC/TC 86: “Fibre optics”, was
submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and approved by CENELEC as EN IEC 61754-7-2:2018.

The following dates are fixed:
• latest date by which the document has to be (dop) 2018-10-17
implemented at national level by
publication of an identical national
standard or by endorsement
(dow) 2019-01-17
• latest date by which the national
standards conflicting with the
document have to be withdrawn
This document partially supersedes EN 61754-7:2008.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 61754-7-2:2017 was approved by CENELEC as a
European Standard without any modification.
IEC 61754-7-2 ®
Edition 1.0 2017-12
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
Fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components – Fibre optic

connector interfaces –
Part 7-2: Type MPO connector family – Two fibre rows

INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
ICS 33.180.20 ISBN 978-2-8322-5066-2

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 3
INTRODUCTION . 5
1 Scope . 6
2 Normative references . 6
3 Terms and definitions . 6
4 Description . 6
5 Interfaces . 7

Figure 1 – MPO connector configurations . 8
Figure 2 – MPO female plug, down-angled interface . 8
Figure 3 – MPO female plug, up-angled interface . 9
Figure 4 – Optical datum target location diagrams . 12
Figure 5 – Gauge pin . 13
Figure 6 – Gauge for plug . 13
Figure 7 – MPO male plug, down-angled interface . 14
Figure 8 – MPO male plug, up-angled interface . 15
Figure 9 – MPO adaptor interface, opposed keyway configuration . 18
Figure 10 – MPO female plug, flat interface . 20
Figure 11 – MPO male plug, flat interface . 22
Figure 12 – MPO backplane housing interface (1 of 2) . 24
Figure 13 – MPO printed board housing interface (1 of 2) . 28
Figure 14 – MPO adaptor interface, aligned keyway configuration . 31
Figure 15 – MPO active device receptacle, angled interface . 33
Figure 16 – MPO active device receptacle, flat interface . 35

Table 1 – Intermateability between plugs and adapters/housings/receptacles . 7
Table 2 – Dimensions of the MPO female plug, down or up-angled interface . 10
Table 3 – Dimensions of the gauge pin . 13
Table 4 – Dimensions of the gauge for plug . 14
Table 5 – Dimensions of the MPO male plug, down- or up-angled interface . 16
Table 6 – Dimensions of the MPO adaptor interface, opposed keyway configuration . 19
Table 7 – Dimensions of the MPO female plug, flat interface . 21
Table 8 – Dimensions of the MPO male plug, flat interface . 23
Table 9 – Dimensions of the MPO backplane housing . 26
Table 10 – Grade . 27
Table 11 – Dimensions of the MPO printed board housing interface . 30
Table 12 – Dimensions of the MPO adaptor interface, aligned keyway configuration . 32
Table 13 – Dimensions of the MPO active device receptacle, angled interface . 34
Table 14 – Dimensions of the MPO active device receptacle, flat interface . 36

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INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION
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FIBRE OPTIC INTERCONNECTING
DEVICES AND PASSIVE COMPONENTS –
FIBRE OPTIC CONNECTOR INTERFACES –

Part 7-2: Type MPO connector family –
Two fibre rows
FOREWORD
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patent rights. IEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
International Standard IEC 61754-7-2 has been prepared by subcommittee 86B: Fibre optic
interconnecting devices and passive components, of IEC technical committee 86: Fibre optics.
This first edition of IEC 61754-7-2, along with the first edition of IEC 61754-7-1, cancels and
replaces the third edition of IEC 61754-7 published in 2008.
This first edition of IEC 61754-7-2 includes the two fibre row MPO variants including the
addition of active device receptacles and up-angled plugs.
The first edition of IEC 61754-7-1 includes the one fibre row MPO variants and related active
device receptacles and up-angled plugs.

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Following the publication of both IEC 61754-7-1 and IEC 61754-7-2, IEC 61754-7 will be
withdrawn.
The text of this International Standard is based on the following documents:
FDIS Report on voting
86B/4099/FDIS 86B/4110/RVD
Full information on the voting for the approval of this International Standard can be found in
the report on voting indicated in the above table.
This document has been drafted in accordance with the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.
A list of all the parts in the IEC 61754 series, published under the general title Fibre optic
interconnecting devices and passive components – Fibre optic connector interfaces, can be
found on the IEC website.
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stability date indicated on the IEC website under "http://webstore.iec.ch" in the data related to
the specific document. At this date, the document will be
• reconfirmed,
• withdrawn,
• replaced by a revised edition, or
• amended.
A bilingual version of this publication may be issued at a later date.

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INTRODUCTION
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) draws attention to the fact that it is
claimed that compliance with this document may involve the use of patents concerning MPO
connectors.
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Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the
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ISO (www.iso.org/patents) and IEC (http://patents.iec.ch) maintain on-line data bases of
patents relevant to their standards. Users are encouraged to consult the data bases for the
most up to date information concerning patents.

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FIBRE OPTIC INTERCONNECTING
DEVICES AND PASSIVE COMPONENTS –
FIBRE OPTIC CONNECTOR INTERFACES –

Part 7-2: Type MPO connector family –
Two fibre rows
1 Scope
This part of IEC 61754 defines the standard interface dimensions for the type MPO family of
connectors with two rows of fibres.
2 Normative references
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their
content constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition
cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including
any amendments) applies.
There are no normative references in this document.
3 Terms and definitions
No terms and definitions are listed in this document.
ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization at the following
addresses:
• IEC Electropedia: available at http://www.electropedia.org/
• ISO Online browsing platform: available at http://www.iso.org/obp
4 Description
The parent connector for the type MPO connector family is a multiway plug connector charac-
terized by a rectangular ferrule normally 6,4 mm × 2,5 mm which utilizes two pins of 0,7 mm
diameter as its alignment. The variant in this document provides a joint of 16 to 24 fibres by
arraying them between two pin-positioning holes in the ferrule in a two-layer (two-row)
arrangement. The connector includes a push-pull coupling mechanism and a ferrule spring
loaded in the direction of the optical axis. The connector has a single male key which may be
used to orient and limit the relative position between the connector and the component to
which it is mated.
Connector interfaces are configured using a female plug without pins, a male plug with pins
fixed and an adaptor as shown in Figure 1. The female plug is intermateable with the male
plug. There are two angled-interface plugs, one called down-angled and the other up-angled.
They are defined for both male and female plugs. The up and down descriptors refer to the tilt
direction of the ferrule’s angled end face relative to the fibre axis when looking toward the end
face with the plug’s key feature on the top. For down-angled plugs, the angled surface faces
slightly downward. For up-angled plugs, the angled surface faces slightly upward. These
different angles affect intermateability for the two adaptor types. An opposed keyway adaptor
mates two plugs with the keys in opposite orientations, for example one side keyway-up and
the other keyway-down. In contrast, an aligned keyway adaptor mates two plugs with the keys

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in the same orientation. When using an opposed keyway adaptor with angled interfaces, two
down-angled plugs or two up-angled plugs shall be connected. For aligned keyway adaptors
with angled interfaces, one down-angled plug and one up-angled plug shall be connected.
Moreover, connector interfaces between the female plug and the male plug are configured by
applying a backplane housing and a printed board housing instead of the adaptor.
Additionally, the female plug interface is intermateable with the active device receptacle.
5 Interfaces
This document contains the following standard interfaces:
Interface IEC 61754-7-2-1: MPO female plug, down-angled interface for 16 to 24 fibres
Interface IEC 61754-7-2-2: MPO male plug, down-angled interface for 16 to 24 fibres
Interface IEC 61754-7-2-3: MPO adaptor interface – Opposed keyway configuration
Interface IEC 61754-7-2-4: MPO female plug, flat interface for 16 to 24 fibres
Interface IEC 61754-7-2-5: MPO male plug, flat interface for 16 to 24 fibres
Interface IEC 61754-7-2-6: MPO backplane housing interface
Interface IEC 61754-7-2-7: MPO printed board housing interface
Interface IEC 61754-7-2-8: MPO adaptor interface – Aligned keyway configuration
Interface IEC 61754-7-2-9: MPO active device receptacle, angled interface
Interface IEC 61754-7-2-10: MPO active device receptacle, flat interface
Interface IEC 61754-7-2-11: MPO female plug, up-angled interface for 16 to 24 fibres
Interface IEC 61754-7-2-12: MPO male plug, up-angled interface for 16 to 24 fibres
The interfaces showed in Table 1 are intermateable.
Table 1 – Intermateability between plugs and adapters/housings/receptacles
Female plugs Adaptors/housings/receptacles Male plugs
61754-7-2-1 61754-7-2-3 61754-7-2-2
61754-7-2-1 61754-7-2-8 61754-7-2-12
61754-7-2-11 61754-7-2-8 61754-7-2-2
61754-7-2-4 61754-7-2-3 and 61754-7-2-8 61754-7-2-5
61754-7-2-1 or 61754-7-2-6 and 61754-7-2-7 61754-7-2-2 or
61754-7-2-11 61754-7-2-12
61754-7-2-4 61754-7-2-6 and 61754-7-2-7 61754-7-2-5
61754-7-2-1 61754-7-2-9 N/A
61754-7-2-4 61754-7-2-10 N/A
NOTE Connector interfaces with 16 to 24 fibres will intermate and will correctly align the lower defined numbers
of optical datum targets (see Figure 4).

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Figure 1 shows MPO connector configurations.
IEC
Figure 1 – MPO connector configurations
Figures 2 and 3 show the down-angled and up-angled interface of the MPO female plug.
Table 2 gives the dimensions of the down- or up-angled interfaces of the MPO female plug.

IEC
Figure 2 – MPO female plug, down-angled interface

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IEC
Figure 3 – MPO female plug, up-angled interface

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Table 2 – Dimensions of the MPO female plug, down
or up-angled interface
Dimensions
Reference Remarks
Minimum Maximum
a
A 0,699 mm 0,701 mm
b
C 4,597 mm 4,603 mm
D 6,3 mm 6,5 mm
g
D1 6,7 mm -
E 8,34 mm 8,54 mm
F 9,49 mm 9,59 mm
G 10,85 mm 11,05 mm
H 12,19 mm 12,59 mm
c,f
I 8,8 mm 9,2 mm
J 7,9 mm 8,1 mm
K 1,4 mm –
d,e
L 0,2 mm 0,8 mm
M 2,4 mm 2,6 mm
N 2,8 mm 3,0 mm
O 4,89 mm 4,99 mm
P 5,59 mm 5,69 mm
Q 5,7 mm –
R – 7,7 mm
S 2,9 mm 3,1 mm
T – 0,8 mm
U 2,4 mm 2,5 mm
g
U1 2,7 mm -
AA 42° 45°
AB – 45°
AC – 45°
h,i
AD 7,5° 8,5°
The mating/unmating force between an MPO connector and adaptor shall not exceed 40,0 N.

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a
Each pin-hole shall accept a gauge pin as shown in Figure 5 to a depth of 5,5 mm with a maximum force of 1,7 N.
In addition, two pin-holes of a plug shall accept a gauge as shown in Figure 6 to a depth of 5,5 mm with a
maximum force of 3,4 N.
b
Dimension C is defined as the distance between two pin-hole centres.
c
Dimension I is given for a fibre end face centre of a plug end when not mated. It is noticed that a ferrule is
movable by a certain axial compression force, and therefore dimension I is variable. Ferrule compression
force sh
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