purple, 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. Contact Customer Care at 1-800-743-2675 to order
other color options.
Standards
Approval and Listings
National Electrical Code
®
(NEC
®
) OFNR, CSA FT-4,
ICEA S-83-596
UL-1666 (for riser and gen-
eral building applications)
Flame Resistance
Flame-Retardant
Outer Jacket
Flame-Retardant
Inner Jacket
Tight-Buffered
Fiber
Dielectric Strength
Members
Dielectric Strength
Members
Dielectric Strength
Members
Dielectric Armor
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Flame-Retardant
Outer Jacket
Flame-Retardant
Inner Jacket
Tight-Buffered
Fiber
Dielectric Strength
Members
Dielectric Strength
Members
Dielectric Strength
Members
Dielectric Armor
MIC
®
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False
MIC
®
DX Armored Riser Cables, 24-Fibers
Specifications
Temperature Range
Storage
Installation
Operation
-40 °C to 70 °C (-40 °F to 158 °F)
-10 °C to 60 °C (14 °F to 140 °F)
-20 °C to 70 °C (-4 °F to 158 °F)
*
Corning Cable Systems recommends storing cable in a proper temperature environment prior to installation to allow the cable temperature to meet installation
temperature range specifications for best installation results.
Mechanical Characteristics Cable
Fiber
Count
6
12
24
Product Type
Nominal
Inner Cable
Diameter
5.5 mm
(0.22 in)
6.3 mm
(0.25 in)
8 mm
(0.31 in)
Nominal
Min. Bend
Min. Bend
Outer Diame- Radius Instal- Radius
ter
lation
Operation
10.1 mm
(0.4 in)
10.9 mm
(0.43 in)
13 mm
(0.5 in)
152 mm
(6 in)
164 mm
(6.4 in)
194 mm
(7.6 in)
101 mm
(4 in)
109 mm
(4.3 in)
130 mm
(5.1 in)
Weight
Dielectric armor
Dielectric armor
Dielectric armor
94.1 kg/km
(63.2 lb/1000 ft)
107.5 kg/km
(72.2 lb/1000 ft)
156.7 kg/km
(105.3 lb/1000 ft)
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Transmission Performance
Fiber Type
Fiber Core Diameter (µm)
Fiber Category
Fiber Code
Performance Option Code
Wavelengths (nm)
Maximum Attenuation (dB/km)
Min. Overfilled Launch (OFL)
Bandwidth (MHz*km)
Minimum Effective Modal
Bandwidth (EMB) (MHz*km)
Serial 1 Gigabit Ethernet (m)
Serial 10 Gigabit Ethernet (m)
Induced Attenuation @ 7.5 mm
Radius (dB)
Multimode
62.5
OM1
K
30
850 / 1300
3.4 / 1.0
200 / 500
220 / -
300 / 550
33 / -
Multimode
50
OM2
T
31
850 / 1300
2.8 / 1
700 / 500
950 / -
750 / 600
150 / -
Multimode
50
OM3
T
80
850 / 1300
2.8 / 1
1500 / 500
2000 / -
1000 / 600
300 / -
< 30 up to 80
Multimode
50
OM4
T
90
850 / 1300
2.8 / 1
3500 / 500
4700 / -
1100 / 600
550 / -
Multimode
50
OM4
Extended
Distance
T
91
850 / 1300
2.8 / 1
3500 / 500
5350 / -
1100 / 600
600 / -
5000 / - / -
10000 / - /
40000
Single-mode
8.2
OS2
E
31
1310 / 1383
/ 1550
0.65 / 0.65
/ 0.5
* Assumes 1.0 dB maximum total connector/splice loss.
* Assumes 0.7 dB maximum total connector/splice loss.
* Meets 0.75 ns optical skew when used in all Corning Cable Systems Plug & Play™/Pretium EDGE
®
Systems Solutions.
* ITU-T G.652 D compliant.
Notes:
1)
Improved attenuation and bandwidth options available.
2)
Bend-insensitive single-mode fibers available on request.
3)
Contact a Corning Cable Systems Customer Care Representative for additional information.
4)
50 µm multimode fiber macrobend loss ≤ 0.2 dB at 850 nm for two turns around 7.5 mm radius mandrel.
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Ordering Information |
Contact Customer Care at 1-800-743-2671 for other options.
Corning Cable Systems LLC • PO Box 489 • Hickory, NC 28603-0489 USA