The difference between leather cable and optical cable

Updated on Sat Aug 23 2025

Optical cable: Use appropriate raw materials and cable structures to contain and maintain communication optical fibers, so that optical fibers can be protected from mechanical equipment and the natural environment and be integrated into different places.

What are the differences, advantages and disadvantages between leather cable and general optical cable?

Leather cable: Advantages: strong coordination ability, convenient and easy to continue, two methods of cold connection and hot connection can be used, suitable for internal wiring applications in engineering buildings such as houses, but the defense is small, the impact toughness is low, and the maintenance of optical fibers is not very it is good. Usually used as part of fiber-to-the-home.


Optical cable: Use appropriate raw materials and cable structures to contain and maintain communication optical fibers, so that optical fibers can be protected from mechanical equipment and the natural environment and be integrated into different places.


The optical cable shall be constructed with one or more optical fibers or optical fiber bundles in accordance with the characteristics of organic chemistry, mechanical equipment and natural environment. No matter what kind of structure, most of the optical cables are composed of three parts: the cable core, the lifting components and the sheath.

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The leather cable is also known as the suspended cable in the room, and the leather cable is also known as the butterfly cable for the access network; because it looks like a butterfly, so many people call it butterfly cable and figure 8 cable. However, the sheathed optical cable is mostly single-core and double-core structure, and it can also be made into a four-core structure. The cross-section is in a figure-8 shape. The lifting piece is located in the two-circle management center. Geometry Management Center. What kind of optical cables should the customer's housing construction consider to use? What problems should be paid attention to when the leather cable is used in the engineering project?


The usual optical cables are: Advantages: high impact toughness, high defense (the optical cable is divided into one layer), and the volume ranges from small to large. Requires thermal continuation. There are also many. Don't talk about it slowly, you read it, it means that you are a college student, you need to answer questions.


In the Internet hardware configuration, there is also a kind of Internet broadband access technology that cannot be ignored, which is generally called network cable. At this stage, the more common network cables are divided into thin twisted pair, optical fiber, coaxial cable and thick coaxial cable.


Optical fiber is a brand-new broadband access technology. Compared with copper materials, optical fiber has often been greatly improved in terms of safety factor, reliability and Internet characteristics. In addition, the network bandwidth of optical fiber transmission greatly exceeds that of copper cables, and its applicable larger connection distance is about three kilometers, which is an inevitable trend for the establishment of a larger-scale Internet. Because optical fiber has the advantages of strong anti-interference signal, strong security, faster, and large transmission capacity, its price is also relatively expensive, and it is rarely used in home installation places.


At this stage, there are two different types of optical fibers, which are single-mode optical fibers and multi-mode optical fibers. Multimode fiber is usually used for data connections in the same office building or in areas with relatively close spacing. The single-mode fiber transmits data with higher quality and longer transmission distance, and is generally used to connect the middle of office buildings or the Internet with wider geographical dispersion. If the optical fiber is used as the Internet broadband access technology, it is necessary to upgrade the optical transceiver and other machinery and equipment, so the cost and capital investment is larger, and it is rarely selected in the usual application.


Twisted pair is this kind of flexible power cable, including double insulated copper core wire, its characteristic is low price, so it is used, such as common network cable. Depending on the maximum transmission speed, twisted pair cables can be divided into Category 3, Category 5 and Category 5e. The speed of Category 3 twisted pair is 10mb/s, Category 5 reaches 100mb/s, and Category 5 super is about 155mb/s, which can meet the requirements of future multimedia systems for data transmission, so Category 5 or even Category 5 is strongly recommended. twisted pair.


Twisted pair can also be divided into shielded twisted pair (stp) and unshielded twisted pair (utp). Although the speed of stp twisted pair is lower (only 4mb/s), its anti-interference ability is stronger than that of utp twisted pair.


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