EN 60794-4:2003

Optical fibre cables - Part 4: Sectional specification - Aerial optical cables along electrical power lines

Specifies the electrical, mechanical and optical requirements and test methods for aerial optical cables including OPGW (optical ground wire), OPPC (optical phase conductor), MASS (metalic aerial self-supported cable), ADSS (all-dielectric self-supporting cable) and OPAC (optical attached cable).

Lichtwellenleiterkabel - Teil 4: Rahmenspezifikation - Lichtwellenleiter-Luftkabel auf Starkstrom-Freileitungen

Câbles à fibres optiques - Partie 4: Spécification intermédiaire - Câbles optiques aériens le long des lignes électriques de puissance

Spécifie les prescriptions électriques, mécaniques et optiques ainsi que les méthodes d'essai pour les câbles optiques aériens comprenant les câbles de garde à fibres optiques (OPGW), les conducteurs de phase à fibres optiques (OPPC), les câbles autoporteurs métalliques à fibres optiques (MASS), les câbles autoporteurs diélectriques à fibres optiques (ADSS) et les câbles optiques attachés (OPAC).

Optični kabli - 4. del: Področna specifikacija - Nadzemni optični kabli vzdolž elektroenergetskih vodov (IEC 60794-4:2003)

General Information

• Status: Withdrawn
• Publication Date: 13-Nov-2003
• Withdrawal Date: 31-Oct-2006
• ICS: 33.180.10 - Fibres and cables
• Technical Committee: CLC/TC 86A - Optical fibres and optical fibre cables
• Drafting Committee: IEC/SC 86A - IEC_SC_86A
• Parallel Committee: IEC/SC 86A - IEC_SC_86A
• Current Stage: 9960 - Withdrawal effective - Withdrawal
• Start Date: 30-Jul-2021
• Completion Date: 30-Jul-2021
• Ref Project: SIST EN 60794-4:2004 - Optical fibre cables - Part 4: Sectional specification - Aerial optical cables along electrical power lines (IEC 60794-4:2003)

Relations

• Replaces: EN 187200:2001 - Sectional Specification: Optical cables to be used along electrical power lines (OCEPL)
• Effective Date: 29-Jan-2023
• Replaced By: EN IEC 60794-4:2018 - Optical fibre cables - Part 4: Sectional specification - Aerial optical cables along electrical power lines
• Effective Date: 07-Jun-2022

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-september-2004
1DGRPHãþD
SIST EN 187200:2004
2SWLþQLNDEOLGHO3RGURþQDVSHFLILNDFLMD1DG]HPQLRSWLþQLNDEOLY]GROå
HOHNWURHQHUJHWVNLKYRGRY,(&
Optical fibre cables - Part 4: Sectional specification - Aerial optical cables along electrical
power lines (IEC 60794-4:2003)
Lichtwellenleiterkabel -- Teil 4: Rahmenspezifikation - Lichtwellenleiter-Luftkabel auf
Starkstrom-Freileitungen
Câbles à fibres optiques -- Partie 4: Spécification intermédiaire - Câbles optiques aériens
le long des lignes électriques de puissance
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 60794-4:2003
ICS:
33.180.10 2SWLþQDYODNQDLQNDEOL Fibres and cables
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 60794-4
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM November 2003

ICS 33.180.10 Supersedes EN 187200:2001

English version
Optical fibre cables
Part 4: Sectional specification –
Aerial optical cables along electrical power lines
(IEC 60794-4:2003)
Câbles à fibres optiques Lichtwellenleiterkabel
Partie 4: Spécification intermédiaire - Teil 4: Rahmenspezifikation -
Câbles optiques aériens le long des lignes Lichtwellenleiter-Luftkabel
électriques de puissance auf Starkstrom-Freileitungen
(CEI 60794-4:2003) (IEC 60794-4:2003)

This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2003-11-01. CENELEC members are bound to
comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European
Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration.

Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on
application to the Central Secretariat or to any CENELEC member.

This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other
language made by translation under the responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and
notified to the Central Secretariat has the same status as the official versions.

CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic,
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta,
Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

CENELEC
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
Europäisches Komitee für Elektrotechnische Normung

Central Secretariat: rue de Stassart 35, B - 1050 Brussels

© 2003 CENELEC - All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC members.

Ref. No. EN 60794-4:2003 E
Foreword
The text of document 86A/851/FDIS, future edition 1 of IEC 60794-4, prepared by SC 86A, Fibres and
cables, of IEC TC 86, Fibre optics, was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and was
approved by CENELEC as EN 60794-4 on 2003-11-01.
This European Standard supersedes EN 187200:2001.
The following dates were fixed:
– latest date by which the EN has to be implemented
at national level by publication of an identical
national standard or by endorsement (dop) 2004-08-01
– latest date by which the national standards conflicting
with the EN have to be withdrawn (dow) 2006-11-01

Annexes designated "normative" are part of the body of the standard.
Annexes designated "informative" are given for information only.
In this standard, annex ZA is normative and annex A is informative.
Annex ZA has been added by CENELEC.
__________
Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 60794-4:2003 was approved by CENELEC as a European
Standard without any modification.
__________
- 3 - EN 60794-4:2003
Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications
This European Standard incorporates by dated or undated reference, provisions from other
publications. These normative references are cited at the appropriate places in the text and the
publications are listed hereafter. For dated references, subsequent amendments to or revisions of any
of these publications apply to this European Standard only when incorporated in it by amendment or
revision. For undated references the latest edition of the publication referred to applies (including
amendments).
NOTE When an international publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant
EN/HD applies.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
1)
IEC 60104 1987 Aluminium-magnesium-silicon alloy wire - -
for overhead line conductors
IEC 60304 1982 Standard colours for insulation for low- HD 402 S2 1984
frequency cables and wires
IEC 60708-1 1981 Low-frequency cables with polyolefin - -
insulation and moisture barrier
polyolefin sheath
Part 1: General design details and
requirements
IEC 60794-3 2001 Optical fibres cables EN 60794-3 2002
Part 3: Sectional specification - Outdoor
cables
IEC 60811-4-2 1990 Insulating and sheathing materials of EN 60811-4-2 1999
(mod) electric and optical fibre cables -
Common test methods
Part 4: Methods specific to polyethylene
and polypropylene compounds –
Section 2: Tensile strength and
elongation at break after pre-
conditioning - Wrapping test after
thermal ageing in air - Measurement of
mass increase - Long-term stability test
- Test method for copper-catalysed
oxidative degradation
IEC 60811-5-1 1990 Part 5-1: Methods specific to filling EN 60811-5-1 1999
(mod) compounds - Drop point - Separation of
oil - Lower temperature brittleness -
Total acid number - Absence of
corrosive components - Permittivity at
23 °C - D.C. resistivity at 23 °C and
100 °C
1)
EN 50183:2000, which is related to IEC 60104:1987, applies.

Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
IEC 60888 1987 Zinc-coated steel wires for stranded - -
conductors
IEC 60889 1987 Hard-drawn aluminium wire for EN 60889 1997
overhead line conductors
2)
IEC 61089 1991 Round wire concentric lay overhead - -
electrical stranded conductors

IEC 61232 (mod) 1993 Aluminium-clad steel wires for electrical EN 61232 1995
purposes
IEC 61394 1997 Overhead lines - Characteristics of - -
greases for aluminium, aluminium alloy
and steel bare conductors
IEC 61395 1998 Overhead electrical conductors - Creep EN 61395 1998
test procedures for stranded conductors

2)
EN 50182:2001, which is related to IEC 61089:1991, applied.

NORME CEI
INTERNATIONALE IEC
60794-4
INTERNATIONAL
Première édition
STANDARD
First edition
2003-06
Câbles à fibres optiques –
Partie 4:
Spécification intermédiaire –
Câbles optiques aériens le long
des lignes électriques de puissance
Optical fibre cables –
Part 4:
Sectional specification –
Aerial optical cables along
electrical power lines
 IEC 2003 Droits de reproduction réservés  Copyright - all rights reserved
Aucune partie de cette publication ne peut être reproduite ni No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any
utilisée sous quelque forme que ce soit et par aucun procédé, form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including
électronique ou mécanique, y compris la photocopie et les photocopying and microfilm, without permission in writing from
microfilms, sans l'accord écrit de l'éditeur. the publisher.
International Electrotechnical Commission, 3, rue de Varembé, PO Box 131, CH-1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland
Telephone: [phone] Telefax: [phone] E-mail: [e-mail]  Web: www.iec.ch
CODE PRIX
R
Commission Electrotechnique Internationale PRICE CODE
International Electrotechnical Commission
Международная Электротехническая Комиссия
Pour prix, voir catalogue en vigueur
For price, see current catalogue

60794-4  IEC:2003 – 3 –
CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 7
1 Scope . 11
2 Normative references. 11
3 Definitions and abbreviations of cables. 13
3.1 Definitions . 13
3.2 Abbreviations of cables. 13
4 Optical fibre . 15
4.1 General . 15
4.2 Attenuation . 15
4.2.1 Attenuation coefficient . 15
4.2.2 Attenuation uniformity . 15
4.3 Cut-off wavelength of cabled fibre. 15
4.4 Fibre colouring. 15
4.5 Polarization mode dispersion (PMD) . 15
5 Cable element . 17
5.1 Slotted core . 17
5.2 Plastic tube. 17
5.3 Ribbon. 19
5.4 Metallic tube . 19
5.4.1 Metallic tube on the optical core. 19
5.4.2 Fibres directly located in a metallic tube . 19
6 Optical fibre cable construction. 19
6.1 General . 19
6.2 Lay-up of the cable elements . 21
6.3 Cable core filling. 21
6.4 Strength members . 21
6.4.1 OPGW, OPPC and MASS . 21
6.4.2 ADSS and OPAC . 23
6.5 Inner sheath . 23
6.6 Outer sheath. 23
6.7 Sheath marking . 23
7 Main requirements for installation and operating conditions . 23
7.1 General . 23
7.2 Characterization of optical units for splicing purpose . 23
8 Design characteristics. 23
9 Optical fibre cable tests . 25
9.1 Classification of tests. 27
9.1.1 Type tests. 27
9.1.2 Sample tests. 27
9.1.3 Routine tests . 27
9.2 Tensile performance . 27
9.3 Stress-strain test on metallic cables. 27

60794-4  IEC:2003 – 5 –
9.4 Installation capability . 29
9.4.1 Sheave test . 29
9.4.2 Repeated bending. 29
9.4.3 Impact . 29
9.4.4 Crush. 29
9.4.5 Kink . 29
9.4.6 Torsion . 29
9.5 Temperature cycling . 29
9.6 Short circuit . 29
9.7 Lightning test.
...