wiredInUSA December 2017

Award-winning cable from AFL. Photograph courtesy of AFL

Award-winning innovation

is at a premium in today’s environment, and our solution addresses this in a unique way.” AFL’s wrapping tube cable with SWR is an ultra-high density outside-plant cable designed specifically for FTTH and access markets. The SpiderWeb Ribbon provides what is said to be the smallest cable diameter and lowest weight, high fiber-count ribbon cable in the industry. The cable is available with between 144 and 1,728 fibers in the armored option, and up to 3,456 fibers in the non-armored configuration. Earlier this year, AFL received a 2017 Lightwave innovation review with a score of four, out of a possible five, points for the same product.

AFL’swrapping tubecablewithSpiderWeb Ribbon ® (SWR) was given a silver level award by the annual Cabling Installation & Maintenance (CI&M) innovators’ awards program. AFL received the award for demonstrating a development that “resulted in not just incremental improvement, but in marked improvement over previous methods employed, approaches taken or products/systems used.” “Network and data center operators are continually challenged to meet the growing demand for bandwidth delivery to both consumers and businesses,” commented Doug Baker, product line manager for AFL’s cable division. “The many innovations found in our wrapping tube cable enable the deployment of the maximum optical fiber densities commercially available today. Space

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