Corning Cable Systems

Corning Optical Communications LLC

Scott Allen McDowell

Reginald Roberts

David Alan Seddon

Julian Latelle Greenwood, Iii

William Carl Hurley

Warren Welborn McAlpine

Richard Steven Wagman

James Lee Baucom

Bradley Jerome Blazer

David Wesley Chiasson

David Henry Smith

Randall Dwaine Tuttle

An optical communication cable is provided. The optical communications cable includes a cable body having an outer surface, an inner surface and a channel defined by the inner surface. An optical transmission element is located in the channel. The cable includes an ink layer positioned on the outer surface of the cable body, and the ink layer is formed from charged ink droplets adhered to the outer surface of the cable body. The cable also includes a translucent layer coupled to the outer surface of the cable body over the ink layer such that the ink layer is located between the outer surface of the cable body and an inner surface of the translucent layer.

Optical fiber cable with protective translucent outer layer

Cables have reduced freespace, reduced tube diameters, and reduced strength member diameters. The cables are designed to pass robustness testing such as GR-20 while using smaller amounts of raw materials to produce.

Optical fiber cables

A fiber optic cable is provided that includes a plurality of lengthwise extending, non-jacketed bundles of optical fibers and a cable jacket surrounding the bundles of optical fibers. Each bundle of optical fibers may include a binder, such as a binder thread, for maintaining the integrity of the bundle. The binder may include, for example, a binder thread formed of an air entangled, textured, continuous multi-filament thread. The fiber optic cable may also include a separation element for preventing adhesion between the bundles of optical fibers and the cable jacket without having to separately jacket each bundle of optical fibers.

High density fiber optic cable

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Scott Allen McDowell