Fibre cables tackle tougher duties

The Light Armor fibre optic cable incorporates the functionality of a traditional fibre cable with the durability and longevity of ruggedised cable, at a much lighter weight.

Timbercon has unveiled the Light Armor fibre optic cable assembly product line, designed to provide customers with a lightweight, durable and easy-to-work-with fibre cable solution for applications requiring more ruggedisation than available with traditional cable optic patch cords.

The Light Armor fibre optic cable incorporates the functionality of a traditional fibre cable with the durability and longevity of ruggedised cable, at a much lighter weight.

Constructed with protective plastic jacketing, Timbercon Light Armor cable assemblies are crush resistant, bend limiting (protecting fibre minimum bend radius), and water proof, making these cables suitable for a myriad of applications from interconnects to industrial and semi-harsh environment conditions.

This new product line is complementary to Timbercon's Ruggedised Stainless Steel and harsh environment product lines, providing clients with a single source for various types of ruggedised, protective, and harsh environment products.

"This product line allows us to offer a high performance solution, positioned between our traditional fibre optic cables and our heavily ruggedised stainless steel, outside plant and harsh environment products", states Jayson Lizardo, Product Manager for Timbercon.

"These products provide increased fibre protection while keeping product weight to a minimum, making this the ideal solution for applications requiring additional product durability, but stopping short of the heavily ruggedised products".

The Light Armor cable assemblies are available in simplex and duplex construction with LC, ST, SC, FC, MU, MIL ST, and MIL termini connector options, single mode, multimode, or polarisation maintaining fibre types, and a variety of custom configurations to suit any application.

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