High count optical fiber cable

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2005-12-06

2005-12-06

Healy, Brian M. (Department: 2883)

Optical waveguides

Optical transmission cable

Loose tube type

C385S112000, C385S109000, C385S110000, C385S100000, C385S102000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06973246

ABSTRACT:
An optical fiber cable includes a number of optical fiber bundles. Each bundle contains a number of optical fiber cable units, and a relatively thin skin surrounds the cable units and retains the units in a desired configuration another over the length of the bundle. Each cable unit includes a number of optical fibers, and a first outer jacket that surrounds the fibers. The bundles are protectively enclosed by a second outer jacket of the cable. In an illustrated embodiment, each cable unit has 12 fibers, each bundle contains 12 cable units, and six bundles are protectively enclosed by the second outer jacket, so that the cable contains 432 optical fibers each of which is traceable by color and/or indicia markings.

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