Ofs Fitel, LLC

Fitel USA Corporation

Elmar Staudinger

Peter A Weimann

Jason Pedder

Georg Koebler

Stefan Jost

Dieter Fett

Olaf Grosskurth

An optical fiber cable includes an unbuffered optical fiber, a tensile reinforcement member surrounding the unbuffered optical fiber, and a jacket surrounding the tensile reinforcement member. The jacket is suitable for outside plant environment. A water blocking material is placed between the unbuffered fiber and the jacket. The unbuffered optical fiber comprises an ultra bend-insensitive fiber that meets the requirements of ITU-T G.657.B3 and exhibits an additional loss of less than approximately 0.2 dB/turn when the fiber is wrapped around a 5 mm bend radius mandrel. The optical fiber cable also exhibits an additional loss of less than approximately 0.4 dB/km at 1550 nm when the cable is subjected to &#x2212;20&#xb0; C. outside plant environment.

Compact, low-cost outside plant or indoor/outdoor cables

A communication cable for being used in ducts or tubes comprising an outer jacket () which is formed with ribs () spaced around the periphery of the jacket and extending along the length of the cable. The new profiled cable has a lower index of friction when being installed in the ducts or tubes.

Communication cable and method of installing same

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Elmar Staudinger