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Tactical fibre is designed to stand up to use in harsh environments, and is resistant to water, chemicals, crushing, cuts and abrasions and most importantly, it can be repeatedly deployed and coiled.

To allow this repeated flexing, the construction is unique in that the fibre cores are ‘locked’ to the jacket, thus avoiding core movement during use and providing high mechanical protection under extreme stress.  Continue reading »

Often armouring is used in cables are used to provide additional protection against rodents, as well as general damage.  “Armoured” fibre usually implies heavy, cumbersome and inflexible multi core cables, however these 2 core cables are far from this; with a cross section of just 3mm they are in fact the most compact option. Continue reading »

A flat twin (or ruggedised) cable consists of a pair of simplex fibre cables encased in a secondary PVC LSZH jacket. This additional sheath effectively doubles the thickness of PVC around the fibres providing additional robustness to the cable. A tight bend in an optical cable, caused by kinking or pinching of optical cables can  disrupt the passage of light carrying data packets down the fibre core, so can affect the performance of the data link.  The additional sheath helps to avoid this happening and is especially important in higher risk installations where the cable is routed through voids for example.  Continue reading »