General Cable Fiber Optics Catalog
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Optical Fiber General Cable, Corning® Optical Fiber. Names that are synonymous with cable and fiber combine to create the ultimate in fiber optics. General Cable partners with Corning Optical Fiber to deliver the world's most reliable and technologically advanced optical fiber cables. Singlemode Multimode These fibers have superior measurement technology and manufacturing control, and industry-leading CPC® coatings for superior microbend and environmental performance. ClearCurve fiber performance is ensured by minEMBc, the industry's leading standards-approved bandwidth measurement for OM3 fibers. ClearCurve fibers are the only ones to use this measurement to ensure 10 Gb/s performance. Standard General Cable utilizes Corning® SMF-28e+™ fiber as its standard singlemode offering. This is a full-spectrum fiber that is fully backward-compatible with legacy singlemode fiber. It enables increased optical launch power of legacy singlemode fiber, improved macrobend specifications from 0.05 dB to 0.03 dB, and tighter zero dispersion wavelength (l0) tolerance from a range of ± 10 nm to ± 7 nm. This fiber supports all broadband applications and complies with the most stringent industry standards, such as: • ITU-T G.652 (Tables A, B, C and D) • IEC 60793-2-50 Type B1.3 • ISO 11801 052 • TIA/EIA 492-CAAB • Telecordia GR-20-CORE Long-Haul For long-haul applications, rely on General Cable's long history of cable experience and the technology of Corning® LEAF® fiber. This is the most widely deployed non-zero dispersion shifted (NZ-DSF) fiber in the world and the first low water peak NZ-DSF fiber. Its large effective area and industry-leading polarization mode dispersion (PMD) specifications enable 10 Gb/s and 40 Gb/s network systems of the future. ClearCurve® ZBL General Cable, utilizing Corning® ClearCurve® ZBL Optical Fiber, delivers the best macrobending performance in the industry while maintaining compatibility with current optical fibers, equipment, practices and procedures. This full-spectrum singlemode optical fiber, when subjected to smaller radii bends, experiences virtually no signal loss. ClearCurve fiber exceeds the most stringent bend performance requirements of ITU-T Recommendations G.657.B3 while remaining fully compliant with ITU-T Recommendation G.652.D and the installed base of Corning SMF-28e® and SMF-28e+® fiber. ClearCurve® Multimode Fiber Corning® ClearCurve® ultra-bendable laser-optimized™ multimode optical fiber delivers the best macrobending performance in the industry while maintaining compatibility with current optical fibers, equipment, practices and procedures. ClearCurve OM3/OM4 multimode fiber is designed to withstand tight bends and challenging cable routes with substantially less signal loss than conventional multimode fiber. 50 micron These fibers support data rates of 10 Gb/s at 850 nm. They also comply with the most stringent industry standards, such as: • ISO/IEC 11801, type OM2, OM3 and OM4* fibers • IEC 60793-2-10, type A1a.1, A1a.2 and A1a.3* fibers • TIA/EIA, 492AAAB, 492AAAC-A and 492AAAD * ssumes IEC draft standard is harmonized with 492AAAD, which was approved A by TIA 62.5 micron These fibers support data rates of 1 Gb/s in both the 850 nm and 1300 nm windows. They comply with the most stringent industry standards, such as: • ISO/IEC 11801, type OM1 fiber • IEC 60793-2-10, type A1b fiber • TIA/EIA, 492AAAA-A 1