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 Outside Plant Fiber Cables for Demanding Broadband Environments
Our CommScope fiber optic cables come in a wide variety of designs depending on the requirements determined by the installation environment. Outside plant fiber optic cables are suitable for applications such as direct burial in trenches, preinstalled in conduit, lashed to aerial utility poles, messenger options for self supporting features or installation in pavement.
For direct buried, underground conduit and aerial installations, CommScope offers several fiber optic cable designs, which include a variety of loose tube, central tube, and drop cables. |
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Drop cables – Flexible, versatile and craft-friendly low count drop solutions providing alternative means of accessing new customers and new markets. Design variations include all-dielectric, armored, and messengered constructions. |
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Central Tube – Armored and all-dielectric constructions for point-to-point installations in counts up to 96 arranged in easy-to-handle color-coded subunits of 12 fibers each. |
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Fiber-In-ConQuest Conduit - All of CommScope’s fiber cables can be pre-installed in conduit, including the gel free, Dry Loose Tube cable. Available in five different diameters - 3 / 4”, 1”, 11 / 4”, 11 / 2” and 2” and three different wall thicknesses - SDR 11, SDR 13.5 and SCH 40. |
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Drop cables – Flexible, versatile and craft-friendly low count drop solutions providing alternative means of accessing new customers and new markets. Design variations include all-dielectric, armored, and messengered constructions. |
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 Precise Production Control and Rigorous Testing Ensure Trouble-Free Fiber Optic Cable
The superior performance of CommScope fiber optic cables derives as much from the manufacturing process as from the components. CommScope manufactures its cables in an ISO registered facility with leading edge SPC and PLC equipment. Because we have been involved with broadband cable systems since 1966, we offer a combination of extra features: |
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Controlled Cable Traverse - CommScope fiber optic cables are traversed so they coil neatly and permit the smoothest possible payoff, thus avoiding cable kinking and snagging during payoff in the field. |
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Water Penetration Testing - Both ends of the cable are cut off and tested to Telcordia standards for water penetration. The one-meter sections are connected to a one-meter column of water. The cable section should be able to prevent seepage over its length for a 24-hour period. |
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Certified Test Report - A report of attenuation and length test results is attached to the reel for proof of performance and to provide a baseline for installer testing in the field. |
CommScope also takes the extra step of spooling cable onto high quality reels. A good, nonwarped reel helps payout and lessens the chance of the cable rubbing against the reel to cause abrasion of the cable jacket. A solid reel also prevents painful splinters – something the experienced installer will appreciate. |
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