Optical Cable Corp. (OCC®) now offers its 10-gigabit multimode, ruggedized tight-buffered fiber-optic cables, which are designed to withstand harsh industrial environments found in manufacturing plants, steel mills, petrochemical refineries and chemical plants. According to the company, the cables:
- Speed installation, reduce attenuation loss and maximize network uptime at industrial facilities.
- Derive much of their reliability and performance advantages from their basic design (as opposed to loose-tube designs, which only have one thin coating surrounding each optical fiber, ruggedized tight-buffered fibers have two).
- In addition to the primary fiber coating, each tight-buffered fiber has a secondary buffer that, together with the primary coating, reaches “heavy weight” proportions such as 387 microns — over six times thicker than the primary coating alone.
- Feature a pressure-extruded (Core-Locked™) or tightly bound outer jacket that firmly binds all the fibers together so that the cable moves as a single, solid rope-like unit.
- Withstand environmental insults such as caustic and volatile chemicals, excessive moisture and fungus, UV exposure, and operating temperatures ranging anywhere from -55 to +124 °C.
