Outside Plant Single Armor Double Jacket (OPA, OPAD)

Berk-Tek's Outdoor Single Armor Double Jacket Loose Tube cables are available in multimode, single-mode and GIGAlite™ fibers.

Buffer Tube Construction

Gel-filled tubes containing up to 12, 250 µm, individually colored fibers.

Outdoor Consideration

Berk-Tek recommends that loose tube cables be utilized in an outside plant installation environment. Loose tube cables are especially recommended if the interbuilding conduit system is likely to fill with water.

• Sunlight resistant outer jacket per UL 444 clause 7.22.

Applications

Berk-Tek's Outdoor Loose Tube fiber optic cable is intended for all high speed data applications, including:

• ETHERNET: 10BASE – 400GBASE (10BASE, 100BASE, 1000BASE, 10GBASE, 40GBASE, 100GBASE, 400GBASE)
• Fibre Channel: 1G-FC – 128GFC (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 128 GFC)
• SONET: OC-1 – OC-768 (OC -1, 3, 12, 24, 48, 192, 768)
• SDH: STM-0 – STM-256 (STM-0, 1, 4, 16, 64, 256)
• OTN: OTU-1 – OTU4 (OTU1, 2, 2e, 2f, 3, 3e2, 4)
• CPRI: CPRI-1 – CPRI-9 (CPRI-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7a, 8, 9)

Features

• High tensile strength, crush resistant and small diameter design. 
• Single-mode, multimode and hybrid design options available.  
• Corrugated steel armor provides crush and rodent resistance.
• Recommended for direct burial installations.
• Fully water-blocked core using dry water blocking system.  
• Also available in Low Smoke Zero Halogen designs.

Benefits

• Provides for greater pulling distances thus reducing installation time.
• Broad design selection allows for mix and match of fiber components to specific networking applications.
• Long-term reliability.
• Low cable plant maintenance, ease of installation.
• Reduce network costs.