Hardened SC APC to Hardened SC APC Fiber Drop Cable, OS2, IP68, Custom Length

This fiber drop cable carries a sealed optical interface at both ends: hardened SC APC connectors, each IP68 rated, mate directly with the outdoor terminal ports at both sides of the link. It serves the spans where neither end is indoors: terminal to terminal, closure to pedestal, pole to facade box. The cable is the round 5.0mm outdoor construction with one G.657.A2 bend-insensitive OS2 fiber, rated at 1200N tensile load and 1200N crush resistance, factory terminated and manufactured to the ordered length.

Product Highlights

• Hardened SC APC (IP68) at both ends
• Sealed tool-less mating with outdoor terminal ports
• Round 5.0mm construction, 1200N tensile and crush rating
• G.657.A2 bend-insensitive fiber, 20/10D cable bend radius
• Insertion loss ≤0.3dB, return loss ≥60dB
• Manufactured to the ordered route length

Some drop routes never come indoors: a distribution terminal on the pole feeding a facade box across the street, a closure feeding a pedestal in a garden plot, a handhole link between two sealed enclosures. On those spans both connectors live outdoors, and both need the sealed interface. The hardened-to-hardened drop cable provides exactly that: each end threads onto a matching terminal port and closes to IP68, so the complete link is environmentally sealed without a single field splice or enclosure seam.

Spanning between structures asks more of a cable than a wall entry does. The round 5.0mm construction carries its strength members around the core, rated at 1200N short-term tensile load and 1200N crush resistance per 100mm, roughly three times the rating of the flat drop construction. The cable tolerates the tension of an aerial sag, the incidental pull during installation through conduit, and the crushing loads of duct sharing and ground work. The 20/10D cable bend radius keeps the glass safe at pole hardware and enclosure entries.

Sealed terminals and pedestals are compact inside, and the fiber within them bends sharply around splice trays and port fields. G.657.A2 bend-insensitive glass tolerates a 7.5mm fiber bend radius, so the pigtail section inside the hardware can be dressed tightly without adding loss. The glass is fully compatible with the G.652.D feeder plant upstream, keeping the link budget of the access network unchanged.

Terminal-to-terminal links repeat across a network by the hundreds. Specifying one cable construction, one connector pair and a length schedule per span type lets the factory build every link identically, with the same optical test record on each. Crews install the same assembly at every location, spares reduce to a handful of length variants, and the documentation for the whole rollout follows one template.

Every drop cable in this family is manufactured to the length stated with the order rather than picked from fixed stock sizes, because last-mile routes differ from a few meters to well over a hundred. The cable is manufactured to the length stated with the order; measure the span including the sag allowance on aerial routes and the dressing slack inside both enclosures. Specifying the measured route length avoids both the slack storage problem of an overlong cable and the strain risk of one that is too short.

Every assembly is terminated with precision zirconia ferrule hardened connectors and optically tested as a complete cable: insertion loss is verified against the 0.3dB ceiling and return loss against the 60dB minimum. Both connectors are checked for seal integrity as well as optical performance, so the delivered link can be threaded onto the terminal ports and put into service without on-site rework.

Refer to the hardened-to-hardened drop cable family when requesting a quotation and state the span length, terminal types and quantity per length. For mixed builds with a standard SC APC end for the subscriber side, or other hardened connector styles, send the site requirement with the enquiry and the factory will confirm the manufacturable specification before production.