1、 STANDARD FOR OPTICAL FIBER OUTSIDE PLANT COMMUNICATION CABLE ANSI/ICEA S-87-640-2016-RL 2016 by INSULATED CABLE ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION, Inc. ANSI/ICEA S-87-640-2016-RL i ANSI/ICEA S-87-640-2016 STANDARD FOR OPTICAL FIBEROUTSIDE PLANT COMMUNICATIONS CABLE August 25, 2016 Sixth Edition Published By In
2、sulated Cable Engineers Association, Inc. (ICEA)Approved December 8, 2015, by INSULATED CABLE ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION, Inc. Approved August 25, 2016, by ANSI ASC C-8 AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE ii Copyrighted by the ICEA Contents may not be reproduced in any form without permission of the IN
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10、ing this document should rely on his or her own independent judgment or, as appropriate, seek the advice of a competent professional in determining the exercise of reasonable care in any given circumstances. Information and other standards on the topic covered by this publication may be available fr
11、om other sources, which the user may wish to consult for additional views or information not covered by this publication. ICEA has no power, nor does it undertake to police or enforce compliance with the contents of this document. ICEA does not certify, test, or inspect products, designs, or install
12、ations for safety or health purposes. Any certification or other statement of compliance with any health or safety-related information in this document shall not be attributable to ICEA and is solely the responsibility of the certifier or maker of the statement. iv This page intentionally blank. v F
13、OREWORD(This Foreword is not part of this Standard.) This Standard provides information on specifying optical fiber cables for outdoor use in telecommunications applications. The first edition of this Standard was approved by ICEA on March 4, 1992, and the second revision on September 15, 1999. A th
14、ird revision was approved by ICEA on June 8, 2005. It was published by ICEA, but was not published as an ANSI-approved Standard. Revision 4 of this Standard, approved by ICEA on September 13, 2006, was a republication of revision 3. It was approved by The American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
15、 on December 8, 2006 and adopted by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) as TIA-472D000-B in April 2007. The fifth revision was approved by ICEA on June 7, 2011 and by ANSI on January 17, 2012. The members of the ICEA Communications Cable Division Working Group who participated in the s
16、ixth edition of this standard were: Jim Ryan, Chairman and Editor G. Dorna R. Gould N. Hatch M. D. Kinard J Lichtenwalner J. Mohler D. Parke M. Rainville J. Register T. Schmalzigaug R. Stanko R. Stevens D. Taylor T. West H. Toland P. VanVickle This issue replaces the previous issue of ANSI/ICEA S-87
17、-640-2011, Standard for Optical Fiber Outside Plant Communications Cable. Major changes in this revision include the following: Addition of new fiber types Added 200 m fiber coating option Redefined hybrid and composite cable Added additional ribbon types No fiber splices allowed in cable Clarified
18、the residual fiber strain for greater than 100 to 200 kpsi fiber is a maximum of 17 % or proof test load Figure 8 galloping test now references IEC 60794-1-21 Method E26 standard Added jacket fungus resistance test. This Standard contains eight annexes. Annexes C, D, and F are normative and are cons
19、idered part of this Standard. Annex E is normative and considered part of this Standard when required by the customer. Annexes A, B, G, and H are informative and are not considered part of this Standard. vi ICEA Standards are adopted in the public interest and are designed to eliminate misunderstand
20、ing between the manufacturer and user and to assist the user in selecting and obtaining proper products for a particular need. The existence of an ICEA Standard does not in any respect preclude the manufacture or use of products not conforming to this Standard. The user of this Standard is cautioned
21、 to observe any applicable health or safety regulations and rules relative to the manufacture and use of cable made in conformity with this Standard. This Standard hereafter assumes that only properly trained personnel using suitable equipment will manufacture, test, install, and/or perform maintena
22、nce on cables defined by this Standard. Requests for interpretation of this ICEA Standard must be submitted in writing (hard copy or email) to the Secretary of the Insulated Cable Engineers Association. The mailing address of ICEA Headquarters and a Contact link are shown on the ICEA web site - . An
23、 official written interpretation will be provided. vii This page intentionally blank. viii CONTENTS SECTION PAGE PART 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Scope 1 1.2 General . 3 1.3 Units 4 1.4 Definitions . 4 1.5 References . 5 1.6 Information to be Supplied by the User 5 1.7 Modification of this Standard 6 1.8 Q
24、uality Assurance . 6 1.9 Safety Considerations 6 PART 2 OPTICAL FIBERS 8 2.1 General . 8 2.2 Optical Fiber Classes 8 2.3 Optical Fiber Requirements 8 2.4 Optical Fiber Coating and Requirements . 8 PART 3 OPTICAL FIBER CORE UNITS 11 3.1 General . 11 3.2 Loose Buffer Tubes 11 3.3 Optical Fiber Bundles
25、 . 12 3.4 Optical Fiber Ribbons . 12 3.5 Tight Buffers . 13 PART 4 CABLE AND COMPONENT ASSEMBLY AND IDENTIFICATION 15 4.1 Cabling of Multi-Fiber and Composite Optical Cables . 15 4.2 Identification of Fibers within a Unit 15 4.3 Identification of Units within a Cable . 15 4.4 Identification of Condu
26、ctors in Composite Hybrid Cable 15 4.5 Strength Members 17 ix CONTENTS (cont.) SECTION PAGE Part 4: (Continued) 4.6 Assembly of Cables 17 4.7 Filling and Flooding Material . 17 PART 5 COVERINGS 19 5.1 Binders 19 5.2 Core Wrap 19 5.3 Shielding, Armoring, or Other Metallic Coverings. 19 5.4 Jackets 21
27、 5.5 Jacket Repairs 25 5.6 Other Coverings 26 5.7 Ripcords 26 PART 6 OTHER REQUIREMENTS 27 6.1 Identification and Date Markings 27 6.2 Optical Cable Identification and Other Markings 28 6.3 Length Marking . 28 6.4 Cable Remarking 29 6.5 Packaging, Packing, and Package Marking . 29 PART 7 TESTING, TE
28、ST METHODS, AND REQUIREMENTS 31 7.1 Testing 31 7.2 Extent of Testing . 31 7.3 Standard Test Conditions . 31 7.4 Electrical Testing of Conductive Materials 32 7.5 Construction, Color Code, and Identification 32 7.6 Jacket Thickness Measurements . 33 7.7 Jacket Material Density Measurement . 33 7.8 Ja
29、cket Tensile Strength, Yield Strength, and Ultimate Elongation Tests . 33 7.9 Jacket Material Absorption Coefficient Test . 34 x CONTENTS (cont.) SECTION PAGE Part 7: (Continued) 7.10 Environmental Stress Crack Resistance Test 34 7.11 Jacket Shrinkage Test 35 7.12 Verification of Cable Length and Ma
30、rking Accuracy 36 7.13 Cable and Component Dimensions . 36 7.14 Ribbon Dimensions 37 7.15 Ribbon Twist Test . 38 7.16 Ribbon Residual Twist Test 38 7.17 Ribbon Separability Test 39 7.18 Ripcord Functional Test 40 7.19 Material Compatibility and Cable Aging Test . 40 7.20 Tight Buffer Strippability T
31、est . 42 7.21 Cable Low and High Temperature Bend Test 42 7.22 Cable External Freezing Test . 43 7.23 Compound Flow (Drip) Test for Filled Cable 43 7.24 Cable Temperature Cycling Test 44 7.25 Hydrogen Evolution in Cable 44 7.26 Cable Sheath Adherence Test . 45 7.27 Cyclic Flexing Test 45 7.28 Water
32、Penetration Test 46 7.29 Cable Impact Test 47 7.30 Cable Tensile Loading and Fiber Strain Test . 47 7.31 Cable Compression Loading Test 49 7.32 Cable Twist Test . 50 7.33 Cable Lightning Damage Susceptibility Test 50 7.34 Mid-Span Buffer Tube Storage . 51 7.35 Central Tube Cable Coupling . 52 7.36 O
33、xidative Induction Time, OIT 52 7.37 Buffer Tube Kink Test . 53 7.38 Jacket Fungus Resistance . 54xi CONTENTS (cont.) SECTION PAGE PART 8 FINISHED CABLE OPTICAL PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS 55 8.1 Optical Performance . 55 8.2 Attenuation Coefficient . 56 8.3 Multimode Optical Bandwidth . 57 8.4 Optical
34、Point Discontinuities . 57 8.5 Cable Cutoff Wavelength (Single-Mode Fibers Only) 58 8.6 Polarization Mode Dispersion (Single-Mode Fibers Only) 58 PART 9 REFERENCES 60ANNEXES Annex A (Informative) Suggested Information for a Purchase Document . 66 Annex B (Informative) Metallic Covering Materials . 6
35、8 Annex C (Normative) Requirements for Very-Low Temperature Applications 73 Annex D (Normative) Self-supporting Figure-8 Cables Designs . 75 Annex E (Normative) 1625 nm Cabled Fiber Performance Requirements . 79 Annex F (Normative) All-Dielectric Self-Supporting Cable (ADSS) 80 Annex G (Informative)
36、 General Outside Plant Optical Fiber Cable Installation Considerations . 81 Annex H (Informative) ICEA Telecommunications Cable Standards . 86 FIGURES Figure 7.1 Ribbon dimensional parameters . 37 Figure 7.2 Ribbon preparation . 39 Figure 7.3 Ribbon separation. 39 Figure D.1 Cable galloping test sch
37、ematic . 76xii CONTENTS (cont.) TABLES PAGE Table 1.1 Cable normal temperature ranges 2 Table 2.1 Multimode optical fiber specification requirements 9 Table 2.2 Single-mode optical fiber specification requirements . 10Table 2.3 Fiber bend characteristics of G.657 single-mode fiber . 10Table 4.1 Indi
38、vidual fiber, unit, and group identification . 16 Table 5.1 Requirements for jackets removed from completed cable . 24 Table 5.2 Jacket thickness requirements . 25 Table 6.1 Year of manufacture marker threads 28 Table 7.1 Sample preparation and test set-up, jacket tensile properties . 34 Table 7.2 M
39、aximum dimensions of optical fiber ribbons 37 Table 8.1 Attenuation coefficient performance requirements 55 Table 8.2 Multimode bandwidth coefficient performance requirements. 55 Table 8.3 Point discontinuity acceptance criteria . 56 Table 8.4 Optical attenuation measurement methods . 56 Table 8.5 M
40、ultimode optical bandwidth measurement methods 57 Table B.1 Thickness of aluminum alloy tapes 68 Table B.2 Thickness of copper, copper alloy, and bronze tapes 69 Table B.3 Thickness of copper-steel-copper laminate tapes 69 Table B.4 Stainless steel tape composition 70 Table B.5 Stainless steel tape
41、physical performance . 71 Table B.6 Thickness of stainless steel tapes 71 Table B.7 Thickness of steel tapes . 71 Table B.8 Steel tape composition . 72 Table D.1 Outer jacket thickness requirements for figure-8 messenger cables . 76 Table D.2 Dimension requirements for messenger webs . 76 Table E.1
42、Acceptance criteria for L-Band operation . 79 xiii This page intentionally blank. ANSI/ICEA S-87-640-2016 1 PART 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Scope 1.1.1 ProductsThis Standard covers optical fiber communications cable intended for outdoor use and normally installed aerially, directly buried, or placed in unde
43、rground ducts. Additional requirements are included in Annex D for “figure-8” aerial self-supporting cables and in Annex F for all-dielectric self-support cables, as appropriate. Materials, constructions, and performance requirements are included in the Standard, together with applicable test proced
44、ures. Refer to other published ICEA (i.e. TIA) cable product standards for information on optical fiber cable requirements for other applications: S-83-596: Indoor optical fiber cable (TIA-472C000-C) S-104-696: Indoor-outdoor optical fiber cable (ANSI/TIA-472E000) S-110-717: Standard for optical fib
45、er drop cable (ANSI/TIA-472F000) S-112-718: Optical fiber cable for placement in sewer environments (TIA-472G000) S-115-730: Optical fiber cables intended for Multiple Dwelling Unit (MDU) applications S-119-741: Fiber to the antenna (FTTA) optical fiber cable. S-120-742: Hybrid optical fiber cables
46、intended for use in limited power circuits. S-121-744: Optical fiber outside plant microduct cables.1.1.2 Applications SpaceProducts covered by this Standard are intended for operation only under conditions normally found in communications systems. These products normally convey communications signa
47、ls (voice, video, and data) from point-to-point or point-to-multi-point, external to buildings. Products covered by this Standard may be factory terminated with connectors or splicing modules. When a composite hybrid cable is required, the applicable metallic conductor requirements shall be as estab
48、lished by agreement between the end user and the cable manufacturer. The requirements of ANSI/ICEA S-84-608 should be considered when determining appropriate requirements. ANSI/ICEA S-87-640-2016 2 1.1.3 Temperature RangesThe normal temperature ranges for cables covered by this Standard are given in
49、 Table 1.1 For the purposes of this standard, very-low temperature applications are defined as -50 C (-58 F) per 1.4.1.6 and are addressed in Annex C (Normative), which contains requirements for lower operating and storage temperatures than listed in Table 1.1. Table 1.1 - Cable normal temperature ranges C (F) Operation -40 to +70 (-40 to +158) Storage and Shipping -40 to +70 (-40 to +158) Installation -30 to +60 (-22 to +140) 1.1.4 Tensile Rating The standard installation tensile rating for cables
