A system and method for facilitating the routing of small information packages between nodes in a network. Additionally, the base of the blade body may be affixed to a scraper blade mount having a shape of a \u201cflattened W\u201d defining a groove that has beveled edges to provide clearance for a fillet weld of a scraper blade support bar to which the scraper blade is mountable. The ferrule is fixed at the flat cut portion to the substrate so that the part of the optical fiber exposed to the flat cut portion is inserted into the groove of the substrate until one end of the optical fiber abuts against the first end of the optical waveguide core.