Cable containing epoxy-modified encapsulation composition

A telecommunication cable segment having at least a portion thereof coated with a pourable liquid composition consisting essentially of:

• (A) a liquid graft polymer having a Brookfield viscosity of less than about 1,000,000 centipoise at 25.degree. C., said graft polymer either possessing no melting transition peak or possessing a melting transition peak having a maximum value below 25.degree. C. as measured by Differential Scanning Calorimetry;
• said graft polymer being comprised of:
• a polymeric backbone selected from the group consisting of polyalphaolefin, ethylene/alphaolefin, copolymer, ethylene/alphaolefin/non-conjugated polyene terpolymer, polyisoprene, polybutadiene, and alphaolefin/polyene copolymer;
• said polymeric backbone having grafted thereto a sufficient amount of at least one compound selected from the formulae:
• ##STR6## wherein R" is a C.sub.2 -C.sub.16 hydrocarbon radical containing an ethylenically unsaturated bond or a C.sub.3 -C.sub.12 radical containing one or more carbonyl groups and an ethylenically unsaturated double bond;
• ,and
• is hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl;
• such that said graft polymer is rendered crosslinkable;
• said graft polymer having a number average molecular weight of between about 500 and about 20,000;
• and
• (B) a sufficient amount of a suitable curative to cure the composition.