Type designation codes (marking) of fiber-optic cables according to DIN VDE has a below structure with 14 sections. Each section indicates one of the cable specifications.
1-
- A - Outdoor cable
- J - Indoor cable
- AT - Outdoor cable, divisible
- U - Universal cable for outdoor and indoor use (also as A/J)
2-
- (ZS) - Metallic support element / strength member
3-
- V - Tight buffered fibre
- W - Loose tube with 1 fibre, filled
- D - Loose tube, filled
- E - Loose tube, flexible
4-
- S - Metallic core / pair / quad
5- Filling of the cable core
- F - Petrojelly
- OF - Special jelly
- Q - Swellable tapes
6- Cable sheath
- Y – PVC
- H - Flame retardant
- 2Y - PE
- 4Y - PA
- 11Y - PUR
- (L)2Y - Al-laminated sheath
- (SR)2Y - Corrugated steel tape armouring and PE- sheath
- (ZN)2Y - Non-metallic strength members and PE-sheath
- (ZN)(L)2Y - Non-metallic strength members and PE-sheath Al-laminated sheath
- (ZN)(SR)2Y - Non-metallic strength members, corrugated steel tape armouring and PE- sheath
7-
- ...x Number of cores with a fiber in loose tube cables
- x... Number of loose tubes x number of fibers per loose tube in loose tube cables
8- Type
- E - single-mode fiber
- G - Graded-index fibre
9-
- Ø Fiber core diameter fiber in microns for multi-mode
- Ø Field diameter in microns in single-mode fibers
10-
- Ø Fiber cladding diameter in microns
11-
- Attenuation coefficient in dB / km
12-Wavelength
- B - 850nm
- F - 1300nm at G, 1310 e
- H - 1550nm
13-
- Bandwidth at G, dispersion coefficient in single-mode fibers
14-
- LG - Layering
- SZ - SZ stranding
Related standards
- VDE
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