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 Indoor/Outdoor Fiber Cables for Strength and Safety
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. CommScope’s design for these hybrid application cables offer construction and jacketing suitable for outside usage yet comply with UL and CSA riser (OFNR) or plenum (OFNP) flame standards. This design allows you to run cable through the building entrance without having to terminate and splice different cables together which results in significant savings in time and labor.
Indoor/Outdoor Fiber Optic Cable types include dielectric central tube designs, dielectric stranded loose tube cables and Triathlon®, a specially designed low-smoke/zero halogen distribution and cordage cable construction.
Indoor/Outdoor Cables offer a unique blend of abilities. They are tough enough to withstand the rigors of the outside plant, yet are riser-rated (NEC 770 OFNR) or plenum rated (NEC 770 OFNP) for indoor use. The advantage of an indoor/outdoor cable is that it can pass from the outside to the inside intact, with no need to transition from one cable type to another, thus saving the time and labor involved in creating an additional splice point. CommScope cables meet or exceed all Telcordia GR-409-CORE requirements as well as GR-20-CORE requirements for crush resistance, impact resistance, flexing and twist/bend.
Another technical achievement in CommScope’s indoor/ outdoor cables is the use of our Arid-Core® dry water blocking technology. Instead of the traditional hard-to-clean flooding gel, Arid-Core remains dry inside the cable. Once exposed to moisture, Arid-Core rapidly swells to form a gel that stops water penetration. The result is a craft-friendly cable that reduces termination time, effort and cost. |
 Among CommScope’s Indoor/Outdoor Constructions for Broadband Applications are:
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Triathlon Low Smoke/Zero Halogen (LSZH) Distribution cables of up to 24 tight buffered fibers |
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Triathlon Low Smoke/Zero Halogen (LSZH) Cordage cables in simplex, duplex, zipcord and interconnect designs |
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Central Tube cables of up to 24 fibers in a robust all dielectric design |
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Stranded Loose Tube cables available in counts up to 288 fibers |
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Stranded Loose Tube cables are available in counts up to 72 fibers |
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