So I guess the cable is cheap, but is it good, terrible, or in between?
------ Original Message ------
From: "Eric Kuhnke" <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: 4/17/2017 5:17:24 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Butterfly Drop Cable
That is manufactured by probably twenty different companies in China
and re-sold by at least 50 vendors. If you go to Alibaba and search for
"FTTH drop cable" you will see a product with the exact same cross
section diagram being sold by a ton of resellers.
On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Adam Moffett <[email protected]>
wrote:
A vendor just sent me a sample of what they call a "butteryfly" drop
cable.
It's dirt friggin cheap. Like $0.09/foot. Hopefully my little
picture comes through.
The steel measures .042" dia which is somewhere around 18AWG.
You can get it with 1 or 2 bare fibers, and you access them by peeling
apart the two aramid strength members.
The cheapness is tantalizing. Will I regret this vs a "normal" flat
drop cable like Superior Essex or Corning? They put corning glass
inside the jacket so I'm not worried about the optical performance,
but I'm wondering if it's rugged enough.
