Optical fibre cables have several optical fibres bundled together, which are usually covered in individual protective covers to reduce losses and damage. These cables are used to transfer data signals in the form of light pulses to distances of hundreds of miles with higher bandwidth and throughput rates than achievable via standard electrical communication cables. Read More..
IBR drop cables: These cables offer high fiber density in a compact, flat design, perfect for space-constrained overhead installations. With a space-saving design, they reduce clutter on poles and buildings. Mass fusion splicing enables quick connection of multiple fibers within the IBR, optimizing installation efficiency and reliability.
Standard IBR Flat Drop
STL Celesta Flat Drop Dielectric Fiber Optic Cable offers the ease of installation in an easy access, single-tube design. This cable has optical Fibers presented in a dry tube filled with water swellable yarns and is enclosed in a thermoplastic sheath. The cables have two embedded strength members for anti-buckling property. The dielectric version eliminates any bonding and grounding requirements.
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Air Blown IBR
STL Celesta Air blown Fibre Optic cable is generally used in FTTx applications. It features lightweight and small diameter
specifically designed for metro feeder or access networking, especially suitable for air-blowing installations into single or bundled micro ducts.
IBR Direct Buried: These cables combine robust performance across installations with high-count mass fusion splicing efficiency. Featuring color-coded ribbon units and gel-free technology ensure reliability against water ingress. UV-protected, lightweight, and flexible, they’re easy to handle and install, guaranteeing long-term reliability and optimizing installation time.
Steel Tape Armoured IBR
STL SM CELESTA® Armored Lite Gel Free Double Sheath Optical Fibre Cable combines robust performance for duct as well as direct installations with the productivity of high-count mass fusion splicing. The optical fibres are arranged into ribbon units by placing the fibres in a flat array of color-coded fibres partially bonded together by a UV-curable acrylate matrix. CELESTA comes with gel free technology; the inner sheath contains water swellable yarns and is surrounded with water-swellable tape to prevent water ingress in the cable. Corrugated Steel Tape armor surrounds the inner sheath making the cable robust and installation friendly.
IBR Duct Cables: These cables, with an innovative ribbon bond design, achieve dense fiber packing and a smaller diameter, perfect for high-growth, high-bandwidth applications like data centers and outside plant setups. Bend-insensitive fiber enhances power budget and serviceability, while the unique cable design allows versatile deployment methods, offering flexibility across diverse installation environments.
Standard IBR Duct
STL’s Celesta Intermittent Bonded Ribbon Cable combines robust performance for duct installations with the productivity
of high-count mass fusion splicing.
The innovative ribbon bond design results in dense fiber packing and smaller cable diameter. This cable offers an outstanding solution for demanding high-growth, high-bandwidth communication applications like data centers, equipment connections within cabinets, and outside plant applications.
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Indoor/Outdoor(IBR)
STL’s Celesta Intermittent Bonded Ribbon Cable combines robust performance for duct installations with the productivity of high-count mass fusion splicing. The innovative ribbon bond design results in dense fibre packing and smaller cable diameter.This cable offers an outstanding solution for demanding high-growth, high-bandwidth communications applications like data centres, equipment connections within cabinets, outside plant applications.
Flat Ribbon Drop Cables :These Cables offer high fiber density in a compact design, ideal for tight overhead spaces. They enable mass fusion splicing, saving time and labor. Their minimal footprint on poles enhances aesthetics, making them perfect for space-constrained installations where efficiency and appearance matter.
Unitube Flat Drop
STL RIBBON-LITE Unitube Single Jacket Cable combines robust performance for high-count mass fusion splicing.The optical fibers are arranged into ribbon units by placing the fibers in a flat array of color-coded Fibers bonded together by a UV-curable acrylate matrix. RIBBON-LITE comes with gel free technology, the buffer tubes contain water swellable yarns and is surrounded with water-swellable tape to prevent water ingress in the cable. Sheathed by thermoplastic jacket with dielectric (FRP) as embedded strength members diagonally opposite making the cable robust and installation friendly.
Flat Ribbon Direct Buried Cables: These specialized flat ribbon cables are tailored for direct burial, boasting thicker and stronger jackets for enhanced crush resistance. They incorporate moisture-resistant materials to prevent water ingress and feature reinforced elements for improved handling, ensuring reliability in challenging environments.
Steel Tape Armoured Gel Filled
The STL RIBBON-LITE Multitube Steel Tape Armored Cable combines robust performance for duct installations with the productivity of high-count mass fusion splicing. Twelve optical fibers are arranged in ribbon units with gel-free technology. The cable features water-blocking gel, surrounded by steel tape armor and a thermoplastic jacket for durability.
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Steel Tape Armoured Gel Free
The STL RIBBON-LITE Multitube Steel Tape Armored Cable combines robust performance for duct installations with high-count mass fusion splicing productivity. Twelve optical fibers are arranged in ribbon units using color-coded fibers bonded by a UV-curable acrylate matrix. Featuring gel-free technology, water-swellable yarns, and tape, the cable prevents water ingress while maintaining a robust and installation-friendly design.
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Unitube Steel Tape Armoured
The STL RIBBON-LITE Unitube Single Jacket Steel Tape Armored Cable combines robust performance for duct and direct installations with high-count mass fusion splicing productivity. Optical fibers are arranged in ribbon units using color-coded fibers bonded by a UV-curable acrylate matrix. With gel-free technology, the cable features water-swellable yarns and tape, surrounded by corrugated steel tape armor and a thermoplastic jacket.
Flat ribbon Duct Cables:These cables offer an outstanding solution for demanding high-growth, high-bandwidth communications applications like data centers, equipment connections within cabinets and outside plant applications.
Flat Ribbon Duct Gel Filled
The STL RIBBON-LITE Multitube Single Jacket Cable combines robust performance for high-count mass fusion splicing. The optical fibers are arranged into ribbon units in a flat array of color-coded fibers. The cable features water-blocking gel and water-swellable tape, making it ideal for demanding high-bandwidth communications applications.
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Flat Ribbon Duct Gel Free
The STL RIBBON-LITE Multitube Single Jacket Cable combines robust performance for duct installations with high-count mass fusion splicing productivity. Twelve optical fibers are arranged in ribbon units as color-coded fibers bonded by a UV-curable acrylate matrix. With gel-free technology, the buffer tubes contain water-swellable yarns and tape to prevent water ingress. The tubes are stranded around the central strength member using reverse oscillation stranding, forming the cable core. This cable is ideal for high-growth, high-bandwidth communications applications like data centers and outdoor plant installations.
Tight Buffer drop cables These versatile cables serve indoor, outdoor, and riser applications, offering reliability and flexibility in connectivity. Additionally, the single-sheath, single-steel-armored construction enables direct burial, duct, and trenching installations, making them ideal for last-mile connectivity needs.
(Tight Buffer) Indoor/Outdoor
These cables are single sheath single steel armored cables in construction suitable for direct burial and duct applications. These cables can be used for short drop in last-mile connectivity. Also, these cables can be installed by trenching techniques.
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Indoor/Outdoor
STL DROP-LITE Flat Drop Dielectric/Toneable Fibre Optic Cable features an easy-to-install single-buffer design with a central inner subunit (Simplex) and a single optical fiber enclosed in a thermoplastic sheath. It includes two embedded strength members for anti-buckling support. The toneable version adds a 24 AWG conductor for underground location tracing, while the dielectric version eliminates bonding and grounding requirements, making it ideal for underground and multipurpose installations.
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Riser( Tight Buffer)
Sterlite TechTM Tight Buffer Riser Cables are an integral part of the end-to-end fibre optic solution, designed to support enhanced data needs along with future advancing network requirements. These cables are intended for riser application in multi storey buildings. Tight buffered fibres are reinforced with aramid yarns and sheathed with Low Smoke Zero Halogen (LSZH). This cable is suitable for both indoor / outdoor application with standard commercial type connectors.
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Distributon( Tight buffer)
Sterlite TechTM Tight Buffer Riser Cables are an integral part of the end-to-end fibre optic solution, designed to support enhanced data needs along with future advancing network requirements. These cables are intended for riser application in multi storey buildings. Tight buffered fibres are reinforced with aramid yarns and sheathed with Low Smoke Zero Halogen (LSZH). This cable is suitable for both indoor / outdoor application with standard commercial type connectors.
Higher Fire Safety Compliance:LSZH sheath ensures the cable meets higher fire safety requirements, making it suitable for environments where fire safety is a priority.
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Simplex( Tight Buffer)
STL Tight Buffer Simplex Cables are an integral part of the end-to-end fibre optic solution, designed to support enhanced data needs along with future advancing network requirements. These cables are intended for connectorization purpose. Tight buffered fibres are reinforced with water blocking aramid yarns and sheathed with flame retardant thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU). This cable is suitable for both indoor / outdoor applications.
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Duplex( Tight Buffer)
Tight Buffer Duplex Cables are an integral part of the end-to-end fibre optic solution, designed to support enhanced data needs along with future advancing network requirements. These cables are intended for riser application in multi-story buildings. Tight buffered fibres are reinforced with aramid yarns and sheathed with Low Smoke Zero Halogen (LSZH). This cable is suitable for indoor applications.
MicroModule Retractable: Cables designed for outdoor installation into ducts feature anti-buckling properties and are enveloped in an outer sheath, enhancing robustness and installation ease.
Outdoor
Micromodule Aerial Cables: These cables combine high fiber capacity with lightweight construction for cost-effective aerial installations. They’re more economical than traditional cables, thanks to their smaller size and potentially lower weight. Made from soft, flexible elastomeric material, they offer excellent crush protection, ensuring reliability and durability.
Ultra Light Weight
YogaLite™ Single Jacket Cable by STL Tech™ is based on micro-module technology to create an optimized design suitable for use in duct/aerial scenarios. The micro module unit consists of groups of fibres protected by an easily strippable and flexible thermoplastic material and filled with thixotropic compound. These microstructures are surrounded with water swelling elements to protect against moisture ingress, and are constrained in a thermoplastic sheath, which is provided with embedded strength members to protect from buckling.
Data is sent across fiber-optic cables using light pulses that move quickly. The center fiber is encircled by yet another layer of glass, referred to as the “cladding,” which forces light to constantly bounce off the walls of the cable instead of leaking out at the edges, allowing the photon to travel further without attenuation. Light moves down fiber-optic cables by frequently bouncing off the surfaces. The way a bobsleigh travels down an ice run, each small photon (particle of light) bounces down the pipe. Read More..
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Fibre optics refers to the technology and the medium associated with the transmission of data as light pulses along a ultrapure strand of glass, which is a thin as a human hair.
Due to increasing data demands, there's a dire need to create new fibre deep networks and data centres, which would encourage faster 5G and FTTH adoption.
The world is getting smarter and connected. Converged and high bandwidth application networks have unique challenges which make high performance connectivity a top priority.
An optical fiber network uses infrared light pulses to transport information over optical fiber from one location to another. The carrier wave that makes up light is modified to transmit information. Broadband connections that use fiber-optic technology can provide lag-free rates of up to 940 megabits per second (Mbps). Fiber-optic internet is also known as "fibre" internet or simply "fiber." The system makes use of fiber-optic cable, which astonishingly has a data transmission rate of up to 70% of the speed of light. Additionally, fiber-optic cables are less vulnerable to extreme weather than other older cable types, reducing disruptions. Additionally, it successfully withstands electrical interference.
Based on the mode of propagation of light, optical fiber cables have two different types.
a. Multimode Optical Fiber Cable: At wavelengths of 850 nm or 1300 nm, multimode fiber (MMF) enables the simultaneous transmission of several data streams.
b. Singlemode Optical Fiber Cable: Singlemode fiber (SMF) has a single light route that can traverse great distances and has a significantly smaller core size.
Based on materials, optical fiber cables are divided into two types.
a. Plastic Optical Fiber Cable: The main substance for light transmission is poly(methyl methacrylate).
b. Glass Optical Fiber Cable: It is made out of a mass of glass fibers. Light travels through each individual glass fiber from the light source to the fiber's opposite end.
Lastly, based on the refractive index, optical fiber cable is divided into two different types.
a. Step-Index optical fiber cable: Step-index fibers feature a symmetrical core with one index of refraction and a lesser index of refraction on the uniform cladding. The simplest type of optical fiber has a cylindrical silica glass core that is encircled by cladding with a lower refractive index than the core.
b. Graded-Index optical fiber cable: As the radial distance from the fiber axis rises, the optical fiber's refractive index falls. Graded-index fibers are often utilized in the telecom industry by grading the index of refraction of the core such that it gradually tapers between both the core center and the cladding. It lowers multimode dispersion.
a. Based on construction, Multimode permits many concurrent light modes, whereas single-mode fiber is meant to transport a single light mode. The bandwidth, signal stability, and signal transmission distance are all impacted by this disparity.
b. Based on bandwidth, Single mode cables may accommodate more powerful, brighter light sources with less attenuation. Comparatively, Multimode relies on the transmission of several light modes with increased attenuation and lower brightness.
c. Based on transmission distance, With a typical single-mode connection, single-mode fiber can transport data across short and long distances of up to 10 km (6.2 miles). On the other hand, the maximum transmission distance for multimode ranges from 300 to 550 meters.
The fastest and most dependable internet service right now is fiber optic. Users may access more media types and larger file sizes more quickly because of the fiber's quicker download and upload rates. Tech experts now choose it over the 5G network because it is quicker and more dependable. A fiber network can easily meet all of your internet demands, thanks to speeds up to 100 times faster than standard broadband. The bandwidth of fiber optics is 1 GB/s. That's 10-20 times faster than the 50-100 Mbps cable that most of us are familiar with today.
The technique that sends information as light pulses via a glass or plastic fiber is known as fiber optics, often called optical fiber. These glass fibers can range in quantity from a few to several hundred in a fiber optic cable. The glass fiber core is encircled by a second glass layer known as cladding. A few to hundreds of optical fibers may be found inside the plastic sheath of a fiber-optic cable. They transmit data signals in the form of light and travel hundreds of miles more quickly than those used in conventional electrical cables. Optic cables and optical fiber cables are other names for them.
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