Flextube brochure
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Flexibility and durability - whatever FLEXTUBE® FROM PRYSMIAN CROUP

Linking the future As the worldwide leader in the cable industry, Prysmian Group believes in the effective, efficient and sustainable supply of energy and information as a primary driver in the development of communities. With this in mind, we provide major global organisations in many industries with best-in-class cable solutions, based on state-of-the-art technology. Through two renowned commercial brands – Prysmian and Draka – based in around 50 countries, we’re constantly close to our customers, enabling them to further develop the world’s energy and telecoms infrastructures, and...

Linking communications to communities Prysmian Group is the world’s largest producer of telecoms cables, supporting the infrastructures of many of the world’s leading telecoms operators. The Prysmian Group delivers optical fibre and copper cabling solutions that help link communications to communities around the globe. Easy installation and reduced costs More dense and quicker to prepare and install, the Prysmian range of Flextube® cables offers many advantages compared with using standard loose tube optical cables. The key benefits of denser design and easier handling mean you make major...

The Flextube® family of optical cables from Prysmian The Flextube® family of optical micromodule designs was introduced by the Prysmian Group in order to provide even better performance than standard loose tube cables. While loose tube products are still used extensively around the world and remain the most prevalent technology for cable designs (and produced globally in very high volumes by Prysmian Group) the Flextube® solution is able to create real benefits for operators, installers and other users through the key advantages of easy fibre access and breakout, avoiding attenuation risks...

The range has expanded from the standard portfolio of Flextube® cables The Flextube® family of optical micromodule designs has evolved over the years as our customers want to put more and more fibres into the duct space that they have available. — Mini Flextube® cables: designed for µduct installation, the material layers around the Flextube® microbundles are improved in these design options. — Nano Flextube® cables: the ultimate density solution, where the coating diameter of the fibre is reduced from 250µm to 200µm. — Micro Flextube® cables: these cables are further enhanced by optimising...

When size matters, the extensive Flextube® family has the answers If you want to optimise the fibre density of your network, you can move within the Flextube® duct/µduct family of optical micromodule designs from left to right in the earlier diagram and table below. Here, the external dimensions of the cable will reduce, as well as the net weight. Utilising the nano technology option in the Flextube® family, which incorporates 200µm Bendbrightxs G.657.A2 fibres, means that 72 fibres can be provided inside a 6mm cable and 864 fibres inside a 15.2mm cable with knock-on effects on microduct...

Where to use Flextube® optical cables from Prysmian Flextube® optical micromodule designs are available for the most extensive range of applications, throughout internal and external networks, whether traditional duct, micro-duct or direct buried networks or the most innovative solutions using new forms of rights-of-way. Almost every application benefits from Flextube®, including high value-add solutions deployed in crowded ducts and microducts, premises distribution, risers, sewer rights-of-way and aerial. Other applications include: • Direct buried • Rodent resistant • Gunshot resistant

How Flextube® goes beyond Loose Tube Flextube® offers significant improvements over regular loose tube technology, delivering higher performance and operational savings for critical aspects of cable deployments. Three tests demonstrate these advantages clearly. Kink The Flextube® construction is immune to kinking, which is a key operational advantage over loose tube, which suffers from kinking at small bend diameters. Loose Tube

Access to the fibres Reduced preparation time for end access (approximately 40%) and reduced fibre access and coiling time for mid-span access (approximately 50%). Time (minutes) Loose Tube Flextube® Flextube® Loose Tube Loose Tube 6 modules Loose Tube 24 modules Time (minutes) Mid Span Access: 6 modules out of 24 prepared, the 18 left coiled Loose Tube Loose Tube Flextube® Flextube® 11.8min Loose Tube 6 modules Loose Tube 24 modules

Time (hh:mm) Flextube® 7 times better @1625nm than conventional design Temperature (0C) This high level of attenuation stability can be considered state-of-the-art cable technology. When coiling inside a joint closure a FlexTube® is extremely stable in temperature versus time (~0.2% variation), allowing operators to future-proof and secure their network against environmental conditions and maintenance tasks for decades. Extreme express module performance

A global solution Around 40 countries have already benefited from the capabilities of Flextube® technology. That includes broad adoption across Europe, significant deployments in Africa and the commencement of significant new builds in Latin America and Oceania. Micromodule’s versatility makes it the technology of choice throughout the network, spanning in-building solutions (risers, VertiCasaxs), scalable FTTx and access (retracting systems), up to full end-to-end infrastructures in significant deployment cases. The advantages of our solution can be leveraged in a wide variety of...

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