Corning ALTOS® triple-jacket, double-armored cables are rugged, armored cables designed for direct-buried installations.
The loose tube design provides stable performance over a wide temperature range and is compatible with any telecommunications-grade optical fiber.
Features And Benefits
• Fiber Category: multimode (OM1)
• Standards: according to National Electrical Code® (NEC®) Article 770
• Design and Test Criteria: ANSI/ICEA S-87-640
• Fiber Count: 24
• Fiber Coloring: Blue, Orange, Green, Brown, Slate, White, Red, Black, Yellow, Violet, Rose, Aqua
• Number of Tube Positions: 6
• Number of Active Tubes: 2
• Outer Jacket Color: Black
• Operation: -40 °C to 70 °C (-40 °F to 158 °F )
• Max. Tensile Strength,: Short-Term 2700 N (600 lbf) / Long-Term 890 N (200 lbf)
• Weight: 317 kg/km (213 lb/1000 ft)
• RoHS: Free of hazardous substances according to RoHS 2011/65/EU
• Fiber Category: 62.5 µm MM (OM1)
• Wavelengths: 850 nm / 1300 nm
• Maximum Attenuation: 3.4 dB/km / 1.0 dB/km
• Serial 1 Gigabit Ethernet: 550 m / 300 m
• Serial 10 Gigabit Ethernet: 33 m / - m
• Min. Overfilled Launch (OFL) Bandwidth: 500 MHz*km / 200 MHz*km
• Minimum Effective Modal Bandwidth (EMB): 220 MHz*km / - MHz*km
• Three jacket layers and two steel tape armor layers
• Provide superior rodent resistance for direct-buried applications
• Flexible, craft-friendly buffer tubes
• Facilitate easy routing in closures
• Innovative waterblocking design
• Provides efficient and craft-friendly cable preparation
• Medium-density polyethylene jacket
• Rugged, durable and easy to strip (while providing superior protection against UV radiation, fungus, abrasion and other environmental factors)
• Exceeds the RDUP requirements for mid-span buffer tube slack storage
• Provides flexibility for mid-span access applications