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Abstract

A grounding and transition assembly for providing combined electrical grounding and distributed transition of a bundle of fiber optic strands associated with a fiber optic cable. The assembly includes a three dimensional housing having an assembleable top and bottom and defining a first section proximate an inlet end for seating an inserting end of the fiber optic cable. The assembleable top and bottom further defining a second substantially open interior section communicable with the first section and extending to an open outlet end. A grounding cable has a first end secured to the three dimensional housing, a second end of the grounding cable securing to a remote location from said housing and providing for conducting of electrical charge associated with the fiber optic cable away from the housing. A three dimensional insert sealingly engages within the second interior section and includes a plurality of interiorly defined apertures. A plurality of elongated tubular portions are seatingly engaged within associated apertures in the insert, each of the tubular portions receiving exposed portions of each sub-divided plurality of the bundled fibers and prior to the individual fiber bundles passage through the outlet end.

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