As system capacities have increased, optical connectors have proliferated in backplane applications. Increasingly, those connectors are ribbon ferrule based. The FBP3 Series is purpose-built for reaching between adjacent cards/modules to reach optical connectors in the backplane. Westover's patented RibbonDrive™ technology is available for many multi-fiber connector configurations and provides the industry's only practical solution for backplane ribbon inspection. Our standard FBPT Series tips can also be used with the FBP3 probe for simplex backplane applications.

We pride ourselves on the wide variety of inspection tips available for our probes. We also offer custom tip development for less widely-used connectors.