Foam Skin / Solid PE Insulated Jelly Filled Telephone Cable

DESCRIPTION

Foam Skin / Solid PE Insulated Jelly Filled (PIJF) cables provide excellent transmission performance in variety of field environment.

APPLICATION

Duct application

Direct burial application

Local distribution networks

Junction between exchanges

FEATURES

Armoured & Unarmoured construction

Availability of standard conductor sizes ranging from 0.4 mm to 0.9 mm diameter.

Available in sizes up to 2400 pairs

CONSTRUCTION

Conductor - Each conductor consists of a round wire of annealed high conductivity copper.

Insulation - Each conductor is insulated with Foam Skin / Solid PE insulation consisting of an extruded inner layer of uncoloured foam, covered by an extruded outer layer of coloured skin with required colours to meet the specification. For Solid insulation each conductor is insulated with Solid medium/high density polyethylene insulation.

Twinning - Two insulated conductors are twisted with uniform lay to form a pair. The length of the lay of the pairs is so choses that the cross talk is minimum.

Units & Super Units - 10 or 20 No's of twisted pairs are laid up to form a group which constitutes a unit. In case of cables having more than 100 pairs, 5 units of 10 pairs or 20 pairs are laid up to constitute 50 or 100 pairs or super units respectively.

Stranding - For cable upto 20 pairs the required number of twisted pairs are stranded to form a cable core. For cables having 50 and 100 pairs, 5 numbers of 10 pair or 20 pair units are stranded to form 50 and 100 pair cables respectively. For cables having higher than 100 pairs, required number of super units are stranded to form a cable core.

Filling - The cable core is fully filled with water resistant compound which is compatible with the polythene insulation of the conductors.

Core Wrapping and Screening - The filled cable core is wrapped with at least one helical or longitudinal plastic tape. Thereafter one aluminium tape, coated with polythene on both sides is applied longitudinally over the cable core with a specified overlap.

Sheathing - The screened cable core is sheathed with black polythene compound grade 03C as per BS:6234.

Armouring - If the cable is required to be armoured, two helical lapping of polythene bedding tape is applied over the polythene sheath. The cable is then armoured with two applications of galvanized steel tape each applied helically with a specified gap. The second tape covers the gap left by the first tape.

Jacketing - The armoured cable is finally jacketed with black polythene compound grade 03C of BS:6234.

 

Technical Details

Conductor Diameter
Conductor Resistance at 20ºC (Solid or Foam Skin Cable)
Attenuation at 150KHz.
0.40 mm
0.50 mm
0.63 mm
0.90 mm
135 ± 8 Ohms/Km
86 ± 6 Ohms/Km
58 ± 4 Ohms/Km
28 ± 2 Ohms/Km
12.00 dB/Km (max.avg.) 8.25 dB/Km (max. avg.)
6.30 dB/Km (max. avg.)
4.40 dB/Km (max. avg.)
Mutual Capacitance Capacitance Unbalance

52 +/- 3 nF/Km (avg.)
52 +/- 4.5 nF/Km (individual)

Pair to Pair
50 pF/Km (Max. Avg.)
200 pF/Km (Max.)
Pair to Earth
750 pF/Km (max. avg.) 3000 pF/Km (max.)
Insulation Resistance : 5000 mega ohms / Km (Min).
ELFEXT : 55 dB/Km (min) at 150 KHz
67 dB/Km (RMS) at 150 KHz.
NEXT : 55 dB (min.) at 150 KHz.