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2.21  Passive components for bre-optic cabling
The term bre-optic cable is used for all glass and plastic cables which are used 
to transfer data. 
Application areas: 
•  Connections with high data rates over long distances
•  In primary cabling (from one building to the next) 
•  In the secondary area 
Display the following benets over copper cables:
•  No EMC inuence
•  Interference resistance thanks to galvanic decoupling
•  Independent of potential equalisation
•  Lightning and explosion protection
•  Lower attenuation over longer lengths
•  Higher bandwidth
•  No crosstalk between the bres 
•  Safety from interception
Distributor and 
cabinet cabling
Infrastructure and 
machine cabling
Application and
machine cabling
Patchcable,zip-cord, 
MultimodeSC,SCRJ,LC,STconnector, 
PVC sheath
Break-outcable 
MultimodeSC,LC,STconnector,PVCsheath
Break-outcable 
MultimodeSC,LC,STconnector, 
PUR sheath










