COMPACT INDOOR OPTICAL FIBER BACKBONE CABLE UTILIZING ROLLABLE RIBBON

摘要

An indoor optical fiber backbone cable may include a cable jacket, at least one ribbon bundle having two or more partially bonded optical fiber ribbons contained within the cable jacket, and two or more reinforcing yarns. The cable jacket may have an outside diameter not greater than 8.0 mm. The optical fiber ribbons may be contained at a packing density in a range from 1.0 to 5.0 fibers/mm² with respect to the outside diameter of the cable jacket. The optical fiber cable may be devoid of tensile reinforcement members other than the reinforcing yarns.