Note that fiber optic cables usually have an orange or brown outer coating, which lets you identify them when they are part of a bundle of different cables.
This will give you clean, undamaged ends of the fiber optic cable that can be spliced together to make it work again. If your fiber optic cable already has clean cuts and the ends are undamaged, you don’t have to cut the cable again.
A metal terminal is a round metal piece that you can crimp onto the ends of a cut fiber optic cable in order to splice them together.
If you can’t get the fiber optic cable all the way into the terminal, strip off a little bit more of the outer coating until you can.
This will attach the metal terminals securely to the cut ends of the cable, so they can be used to splice the cable back together.
An inline connector is a rectangular plastic box that has a hole at either end, into which you can slide metal terminals to splice 2 ends of a fiber optic cable together.
This will keep the ends of the cut fiber optic cable inside the inline connector, so they cannot be pulled out.
