Cable with interstitial fillers and edge ribbons

Abstract

The present disclosure provides an optical fibre cable. The optical fibre cable includes a plurality of buffer tubes and a plurality of interstitial fillers in spaces between the plurality of buffer tubes. The plurality of interstitial fillers is arranged in spaces between the plurality of buffer tubes. The optical fibre cable may include a plurality of water swellable yarns. There is an optical fibre ribbon stack including a plurality of optical fibre ribbons. The plurality of optical fibre ribbons are stacked to form the optical fibre ribbon stack. The present disclosure provides a fire retardant optical fibre cable includes the plurality of buffer tubes and one or more numbers of interstitial fillers and includes at least one of a thermal resistant water blocking tape, a fire resistant water blocking tape and a Mica tape wrapped over the core of the fire retardant optical fibre cable.

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