The invention discloses a device and method for stripping a communication optical cable. The front end face of a cover body is provided with a transverse
cutting assembly, the rear end face of the cover body is connected with a side supporting seat, and the side supporting seat is provided with a plurality of observation holes at intervals; the part, close to the bottom, in the cover body is provided with a rotating
assembly, and the outer surface of the rotating
assembly is uniformly provided with a plurality of cable grooves; an optical cable needing to be peeled extends into the cable groove through the positioning hole and extends out of the device through the observation hole. A vertical
cutting assembly is fixedly connected to the portion, above the rotating assembly, of the cover body, and a vertical cutter is connected to the vertical
cutting assembly in a sliding mode. According to the invention, after the
skin of the
optical fiber is stripped, a worker pulls the optical cable towards one side of the positioning seat, so that each stripped
skin can be taken down from the rotating frame, a
bare fiber protection sleeve is embedded into the bottom side of each cable groove, and each
bare fiber protection sleeve can be embedded into the surface of each
optical fiber by rotating a hand wheel; therefore, the device can not only open and pull the optical cable, but also protect the
optical fiber, and is convenient to use.