The price I got was from FIS. They said lead time is 2-3 weeks.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Carl Peterson" <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: 4/18/2017 9:42:42 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Butterfly Drop Cable
I'd be interested in what vendor. We have our toes in the importing
from China game and it can be super hit or miss. You can get what
looks like exactly the same thing from two different suppliers and one
will be made out of crap plastic while the other is great. We are
testing a similar indoor butterfly flat drop for conduit runs in MDUs.
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Adam Moffett <[email protected]>
wrote:
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.
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