Corning 012EU4-T4101D20 12 strand SM Loose tube
This is Corning Cable Systems Altos 12 strand fiber optic cable part number 012EU4-T4101D20 and is designed for outdoor and limited indoor use for campus backbones in lashed aerial and duct installations.
The loose tube gel-free design is fully waterblocked using craft-friendly, water-swellable materials, which means cable access is simple and no clean up is required. The flexible craft-friendly buffer tubes are easy to route in closures and the SZ-stranded,loose tube design isolates fibers from installation and environmental rigors while allowing easy midspan access. The all-dielectric cable construction requires no bonding or grounding and these cables have a medium-density polyethylene jacket that is rugged, durable and easy to strip. A variety of fiber types are available including 62.5, 50, single-mode and
hybrid versions, as well as fibers with Gigabit Ethernet
and 10 Gigabit Ethernet performance.
These cables are also available with optional extended operating temperature to -50°C (-58°F) in a variety of fiber counts.
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Maximum Tensile Loads
Short-Term: 2700 N (600 lbf)
Long-Term: 890 N (200 lbf)
Temperatures
Storage: -40° to +70°C (-40° to +158°F)
Installation: -30° to +70°C (-22° to +158°F)
Operation: -40° to +70°C (-40° to +158°F)
Common Installations
Outdoor lashed aerial and duct; indoor when installed according to National Electrical
Code® (NEC®) Article 770
Design and Test Criteria
ANSI/ICEA S-87-640
Maximum Fibers per Tube - 12
Number of tube positions – 6
Number of Active tubes – 1
Central Member – Dielectric
Cable Weight – 61lbs (per 1,000ft [plus spool])
Outside Diameter – 0.41”
Minimum bend radius:
Loaded 6.2”
Installed 4.1”
Do you need Single-Mode?
Single Mode cable is a single stand (most applications use 2 fibers) of glass fiber with a diameter of 8.3 to 10 microns that has one mode of transmission. Single Mode Fiber with a relatively narrow diameter, through which only one mode will propagate typically 1310 or 1550nm. Carries higher bandwidth than multi-mode fiber, but requires a light source with a narrow spectral width. Synonyms mono-mode optical fiber, single-mode fiber, single-mode optical waveguide, uni-mode fiber.
Single Modem fiber is used in many applications where data is sent at multi-frequency (WDM Wave-Division-Multiplexing) so only one cable is needed - (single-mode on one single fiber)
Single-mode fiber gives you a higher transmission rate and up to 50 times more distance than multimode, but it also costs more. Single-mode fiber has a much smaller core than multimode. The small core and single light-wave virtually eliminate any distortion that could result from overlapping light pulses, providing the least signal attenuation and the highest transmission speeds of any fiber cable type.
Single-mode optical fiber is an optical fiber in which only the lowest order bound mode can propagate at the wavelength of interest typically 1300 to 1320nm.
