Corning Incorporated

Bicc Public Limited Company

Bicc Plc

Emtelle UK Limited

Mainetti Technology Limited

John A Tansey

George Henry Platt Brown

Alan A Sadler

Rodney J Davey

George Henry Brown

A method for installing a lightweight optical fiber unit, preferably less than approximately 10 g/m, into a tube, by pulling the optical fiber unit through the tube using a pulling member. The pulling member may be attached to the optical fiber unit by a braided sheath. Alternatively, the pulling member itself may be a braided tube.

Method of installing an optical fibre unit in a tube

An optical fibre cable comprises a plurality of optical fibre structures each of which comprises an optical fibre surrounded by at least one sheath layer. The optical fibre structures are separably held together side-by-side. The optical fibre cable is propellable along a tubular pathway by fluid drag of a gaseous medium passing over the cable, and each of the individual optical fibre structures is preferably also so propellable when the said structures are separated from one another.

Propellable optical fiber cables

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Runcorn, United Kingdom

John A Tansey