This guide has been prepared to facilitate the selection of messengers and lashing wires for both fieldand factory-assembled, self-supporting aerial cables. The cables used for attachment to the messenger shall be suitable for the service and shall be manufactured and tested in...
General Overview This Standard covers optical fiber communications cables intended for installation in underground sewers, specifically storm and sanitary sewers. Materials, construction, and performance requirements are included in this Standard, together with applicable test procedures....
This standard applies to the materials, constructions, and testing of assemblies or single conductors intended for field lashing, of extruded dielectric insulated electric current carrying phase conductors and bare or covered neutral electrical conductors used as weather resistant wires and...
This standard applies to the materials, constructions, and testing of single conductor cables and assemblies of completed single conductor thermoset insulated cables, with an insulated or bare copper or an insulated aluminum neutral, used for the distribution of electrical energy at...
This standard applies to the materials, constructions, and testing of single conductor cables and assemblies of completed single conductor cables used for the distribution of electrical energy at phase-to-phase voltages not exceeding 600 volts or phase to ground not exceeding 480 V,...
Products Indoor-outdoor cables covered by this Standard are generally derived from outdoor cable designs having the thermal and mechanical robustness that makes them suitable for use in the Outside Plant. Material changes are made, as required, to allow the designs to meet their...
General This Standard covers optical fiber communications cables intended for use in outdoor and indoor/outdoor optical fiber drop applications. Materials, construction, and performance requirements are included in this Standard, together with applicable test procedures. Optical fiber...
This standard applies to materials, constructions, and testing of crosslinked polyethylene (XLPE) and ethylene propylene rubber (EPR) insulated single conductor shielded power cables rated above 46 to 500 kV ac used for the transmission of electrical energy.
This standard applies to materials, constructions, and testing of crosslinked polyethylene (XLPE) and ethylene propylene rubber (EPR) insulated single conductor shielded power cables rated above 46 to 345 500 kV ac used for the transmission of electrical energy.
This Standard covers material, mechanical and electrical requirements for Broadband Aerial Service Wire (BB-ASW) of ≤ 12 pair, intended for use principally in extending a circuit from a broadband distribution cable terminal to a subscriber's network interface device (NID). PURPOSE The...
This test method provides for qualification and production test procedures for determining the effectiveness of water blocking components incorporated into the interstices of the stranded and insulated conductor as an impediment to longitudinal water penetration into the conductor. Cables...
Products Cables covered by this Standard include two classes of cables using single-mode fiber. The cables are for use in single or multi-dwelling units (MDU) or other FTTX applications where fiber is delivered to the end customer equipment. The first class, the rugged drop...
This guide establishes test methods to evaluate the dielectric properties of non-conducting jacket materials for power cables rated 5 to 500 kV. The guide includes test methods to determine both the minimum AC and impulse breakdown levels of the non-conducting jacket materials.
This test method provides for qualification and production test procedures for determining the effectiveness of non-metallic water barriers incorporated in a cable construction which are designed as an impediment to longitudinal water penetration along the cable interstices.
This Standard covers mechanical, electrical and flammability requirements for Riser cables. Depending upon the application and system requirements, this Standard provides choices for materials and transmission characteristics. For those characteristics where no differentiation is made, the...
Equations and parameters have been established for short circuit calculations for sheaths or shields made of aluminum, bronze, copper, lead, steel, zinc and cupronickel alloys. The types of sheaths or shields included are: • Wires, applied either helically, as braid or serving; or longitudinally...
This Standard covers mechanical and electrical requirements for filled, polyolefin insulated, copper conductor telecommunications cable. It provides alternative choices for type of insulation, type of filling compound, core lay-ups, color code, sheath design (shielding materials, single or...
This standard applies to materials, constructions, and testing of 5,000 volt to 46,000 volt shielded crosslinked polyethylene, and ethylene propylene rubber insulated wires and cables that are used for the transmission and distribution of electrical energy for normal conditions of...
This standard applies to the materials, constructions, and testing of tree wire and messenger supported spacer cable. These conductors are intended primarily for the distribution of electrical energy under normal conditions of overhead (aerial) installations. This standard covers both...
Products This Standard covers optical fiber communications cable intended for outdoor use and normally installed aerially, directly buried, or placed in underground ducts. Additional requirements are included in Annex D for "figure-8" aerial selfsupporting cables and in Annex F for...