Fiber optic cables having a toning lobe

A fiber optic cable comprising:

• a main cable body, the main cable body having at least one optical waveguide;
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• a toning lobe, the toning lobe being connected to the main cable body by a web that is frangible, wherein the web includes a neck portion adjacent to the main cable body and a web body connected to the neck portion at a first end and connected to a main portion of the toning lobe at a second end, wherein the web body has a first side and a second side, wherein the first side is generally tangent to a first point of the toning lobe and the second side is generally tangent to a second point of the toning lobe and the web body generally decreases in thickness toward the main cable body, thereby allowing a conductive wire of the toning lobe to migrate from a center area of the toning lobe toward the main cable body while still providing adequate separation performance of the toning lobe, the toning lobe having a separation force from the main cable body of less than 30 Newtons along an X-X axis.

A fiber optic cable comprising:

• a main cable body, the main cable body having at least one optical waveguide;
• and
• a toning lobe, the toning lobe being connected to the main cable body by a web that is frangible, wherein the web includes a neck portion adjacent to the main cable body and a web body connected to the neck portion at a first end and connected to a main portion of the toning lobe at a second end wherein the web body generally increases in thickness from first end to the second end, the web body having at least one radius where it joins the main portion of the toning lobe, wherein a center of the at least one radius lies on the toning lobe side of the fiber optic cable, thereby allowing a conductive wire of the toning lobe to migrate from a center area of the toning lobe toward the main cable body while still providing adequate separation performance of the toning lobe, the toning lobe having a separation force from the main cable body of less than 30 Newtons along an X-X axis.