Function
The cable outer surrounds the core and contains materials to protect the cable and house the fibre optic cable.
Who supplies them
Materials: Commodity suppliers. Specialist fibre optic manufacturers, jointers and systems companies
Fibre optic manufacturers: Hexatronic and Huber+Suhner.
Fibre optic jointers and systems: CCL UK.
Key facts
An export cable outer has the same components as an array cable core and uses the same materials.
What’s in it
- Armouring wire
- Bitumen
- Fibre optic cable
- Polypropylene yarn