Corning 48 F MIC® unitized interlocking armored plenum cables are standard MIC unitized cables designed for use in plenum, riser and general purpose environments for intrabuilding backbone and horizontal installations. These multifiber cables use individually jacketed 900 μm TBII® buffered fibers enabling easy, consistent stripping and facilitating termination. The fibers are grouped into six or 12-fiber jacketed subunits for quick and easy identification. These subunits surround a dielectric central member and are protected by a flexible, spirally wrapped, aluminum interlocking armor that offers easy, one-step installation and over seven times the crush protection of unarmored cables.
With a flame-retardant outer jacket, this cable is particularly useful for heavy traffic or more challenging mechanical exposure conditions and applications requiring extra rugged cables for routing inside buildings, through riser shafts, to telecommunication rooms and to workstations.
This cable is available in 12 different jacket colors – blue, orange, green, brown, slate, white, red, black, yellow, violet, rose and aqua. The colored jacket allows for easy visual identification of the cables. The standard jacket color will be determined by the dominant fiber type in the cable and will use the standard part numbers shown here.
Features And Benefits
• Fiber Category: 50 µm MM (OM4+)
• Standards:National Electrical Code® (NEC®) OFCR, CSA FT-4
• Design and Test Criteria: ANSI/ICEA S-104-696; CSA FT-4
• Fiber Count: 48
• Number of Active Tubes: 8
• Fiber Coloring: Blue, Orange, Green, Brown, Slate, White
• Outer Jacket Color: Aqua
• Operation: -20 °C to 70 °C (-4 °F to 158 °F )
• Max. Tensile Strength: Short-Term 2700 N (600 lbf) / Long-Term 810 N (180 lbf)
• Weight: 496.9 kg/km (333.9 lb/1000 ft)
• RoHS: Free of hazardous substances according to RoHS 2011/65/EU
• Fiber Category:OM4 Extended Distance
• Wavelengths: 850 nm / 1300 nm
• Maximum Attenuation: 0.65 dB/km / 0.65 dB/km / 0.50 dB/km
• Serial 1 Gigabit Ethernet: 1100 m / 600 m
• Serial 10 Gigabit Ethernet: 600 m / - m
• Min. Overfilled Launch (OFL) Bandwidth : 3500 MHz*km / 500 MHz*km
• Minimum Effective Modal Bandwidth (EMB) : 5350 MHz*km / - MHz*km
• Aluminum interlocking armor
Seven times crush protection compared to unarmored
• 900 µm TBII® Buffered Fibers
Easy, consistent stripping
• Six- or 12-fiber jacketed subunits
Quick and easy identification
• Flame-retardant jacket
Rugged and durable
Standards
• Approval and Listings: National Electrical Code® (NEC®) OFCP, CSA FT-6, ICEA S-83-596
• Flame Resistance NFPA 262 (for plenum, riser and general building applications)
