Mar 26 2010
OFS, designer, manufacturer and supplier of leading edge fiber optic network products, today announced it has made available the EZ-Bend® Bundled MDU Cabling System that helps speed low-cost deployment of fiber to multi-dwelling units (MDUs).
The EZ-Bend Bundled MDU Cabling System
The EZ-Bend Bundled MDU Cabling System replaces the traditional indoor riser and drop system with an exterior solution which can reduce installation labor hours by as much as 60%. This savings is achieved by eliminating indoor pathway creation and the terminations between backbone and drop cable through the use of a factory manufactured integrated assembly.
EZ-Bend Bundled MDU Cabling System assemblies are made with 5 or 6 EZ-Bend 4.8 millimeter indoor/outdoor cables stranded around a messenger cable which can be alternately secured to either the roof or base of the building as required by the application. Each of the EZ-Bend cables in the bundle is shipped from the factory with an angled SC connector under an outdoor-rated protective covering, in a twenty-foot coil of excess cable at the terminated end that is positioned at a distance equal to the floor spacing on most multi-floor residential structures. This compact design blends seamlessly with the exterior metallic cabling systems that have been deployed on many buildings and, therefore, does not diminish the aesthetics of the MDU.