EN 187103:2003

Family specification - Optical fibre cables for indoor applications

This family specification covers optical cables for telecommunication application to be used indoor. This specification does not cover cable assemblies, such as connectorized jumper cable, or the functional requirements for cable break-out (fan out). It also not covers cables for LAN applications and cables incorporating multimode fibres. Clause 5 of this standard describes a blank detail specification for optical telecommunication cables to be used for indoor cables. It incorporates some minimum requirements common to all European countries. Detail specifications may be prepared based on this family specification following in particular requirements of clause 5.

Familienspezifikation - Lichtwellenleiterkabel zur Anwendung in Innenräumen

Spécification - Câbles à fibres optiques pour applications intérieures

Rodovne specifikacije – Kabli z optičnimi vlakni za notranjo uporabo*

General Information

• Status: Withdrawn
• Publication Date: 13-Jan-2003
• ICS: 33.180.20 - Fibre optic interconnecting devices
• 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
• Completion Date: 08-Mar-2017
• Mandate: M/212 - ICT - metallic and optical cables and cabling systems
• Ref Project: SIST EN 187103:2004 - Family specification - Optical fibre cables for indoor applications

Standards Content (Sample)

STANDARDRodovne specifikacije – Kabli z optičnimi vlakni za notranjo uporabo*Family specification - Optical fibre cables for indoor applications©
Standard je založil in izdal Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje ali kopiranje celote ali delov tega dokumenta ni dovoljenoReferenčna številkaSIST EN 187103:2004(en)ICS33.180.10

EUROPEAN STANDARD
EN 187103 NORME EUROPÉENNE EUROPÄISCHE NORM
January 2003 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 187103:2003 E
ICS 33.180.20
English version
Family specification –
Optical fibre cables for indoor applications
Spécification –
Câbles à fibres optiques
pour applications intérieures
Familienspezifikation - Lichtwellenleiterkabel zur Anwendung
in Innenräumen
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2002-03-05. 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, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

This European Standard was prepared by the Technical Committee CENELEC TC 86A, Optical fibres and optical fibre cables.
The text of the draft was submitted to the Unique Acceptance Procedure and was approved by CENELEC as EN 187103 on 2002-03-05.
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) 2003-08-01
- latest date by which the national standards conflicting
with the EN have to be withdrawn (dow) 2005-03-01
This standard has been produced in accordance with a specialised agreement on work repartition and co-operation for standardization concerning fibre optics and is part of the CEN/CENELEC/ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) co-operation agreement.
It uses information provided by the ETSI on functional and system related aspects by means of an Interim European Telecommunication Standard (I-ETS).
The document I-ETS 300 644, Optical fibre cables for indoor applications, prepared by ETSI/TM1/WG1, has been reviewed and completed by the CENELEC TC 86A for incorporation within the set of EN 1871xx standards prepared using a similar process.

- 3 - EN 187103:2003 Contents Page 1 Scope.4 2 General.4 3 Normative references.4 4 Symbols and abbreviations.5 4.1 Symbols.5 4.2 Abbreviations.6 5 Family specification for optical telecommunication cables for indoor application (blank detail specification and minimum requirements).7 5.1 Cable description.7 5.2 Optical fibres.9 5.2.1 Single mode dispersion unshifted (b1.1) optical fibre.9 5.2.2 Single mode dispersion shifted (b1.2) optical fibre.9 5.2.3 Single mode
non zero dispersion shifted (b4) optical fibre.9 5.2.4 Details on family requirements.10 5.3 Cable element.10 5.3.1 Tests applicable.10 5.3.2 Details on family requirements.10 5.3.3 Additional tests and requirements.10 5.4 Cable construction.11 5.4.1 Tests applicable.11 5.4.2 Details on family requirements.12 5.5 Installation and operating conditions.12 5.6 Mechanical and environmental tests.13 5.6.1 Tests applicable.13 5.6.2 Details on family requirements and test conditions for optical fibre cable tests.13

This family specification covers optical cables for telecommunication application to be used indoor. This specification does not cover cable assemblies, such as connectorized jumper cable, or the functional requirements for cable break-out (fan out). It also not covers cables for LAN applications and cables incorporating multimode fibres.
Clause 5 of this standard describes a blank detail specification for optical telecommunication cables to be used for indoor cables. It incorporates some minimum requirements common to all European countries.
Detail specifications may be prepared based on this family specification following in particular requirements of clause 5.
2 General
The parameters specified in this standard may be affected by measurement uncertainty arising either from measurement errors or calibration errors due to lack of suitable standards. Acceptance criteria shall be interpreted with respect to this consideration. The total uncertainty of measurement for this standard shall be less than or equal to 0,05 dB for attenuation.
The expression of no change in attenuation means that any change in measurement value either positive or negative, within the uncertainty of measurement shall be ignored.
The number of fibres tested shall be representative of the cable design and shall be agreed between the user and the manufacturer.
3 Normative references
This standard incorporates by dated and 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 standard only when incorporated in it by amendment or revision. For undated references the latest edition of the publication referred to applies (including amendments).
[1] EN 188101 1995 Family specification: Single-mode dispersion unshifted (B1.1) optical fibre
[2] EN 188102 1996 Family specification: Single-mode dispersion shifted (B2) optical fibre
[3] EN 188103 200x Family specification: Single-mode non zero dispersion shifted optical fibre (B4)
[4] EN 187000 1995 Generic specification: Optical fibre cables
[5] EN 188000 1995 Generic specification: Optical fibres
[6] HD 624.7 1994 Materials used in communication cables – Part 7: Halogen free flame retardant thermoplastic sheathing compounds
[7] IEC 60304 1982 Standard colours for insulation for low-frequency cables and wires
[8] IEC 60332-1 1993 Tests on electric cables under fire conditions – Part 1: Test on a single vertical insulated wire or cable
[9] IEC 60332-3 1992 Tests on electric cables under fire conditions – Part 3: Tests on bunched wires or cables

- 5 - EN 187103:2003 [10] IEC 60754-2 1991 Test on gases evolved during combustion of electric cables – Part 2: Determination of degree of acidity of gases evolved during the combustion of materials taken from electric cables by measuring pH and conductivity
[11] IEC 60811-4-2 1990 Common test methods for insulating and sheathing materials of electric cables – Part 4: Methods specific to polyethylene and polypropylene compounds – Section 2: Elongation at break after preconditioning - Wrapping test after preconditioning - Wrapping test after thermal ageing in air - Measurement of mass increase - Long-term stability test (Appendix A) - Test method for copper-catalysed oxidative degradation (Appendix B)
[12] IEC 60811-5-1 1990 Common test methods for insulating and sheathing materials of electric cables – Part 5: Methods specific to filling compounds – Section 1: 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
[13] IEC 61034-1 1990 Measurement of smoke density of electric cables burning under defined conditions – Part 1: Test apparatus
[14] IEC 61034-2 1991 Measurement of smoke density of electric cables burning under defined conditions – Part 2: Test procedure and requirements
[15] IEC 60754-1 1994 Test on gases evolved during combustion of electric cables – Part 1: Determination of the amount of halogen acid gas
[16] IEC 60794-1 1999 Optical fibre cables – Part 1: Generic specification
[17] IEC 60794-3 1998 Optical fibre cables – Part 3: Duct, buried & aerial cables Sectional specification
[18] IEC 60708-1 1981 Low-frequency cables with polyolefin insulation and moisture barrier polyolefin sheath – Part 1: General design details and requirements
4 Symbols and abbreviations
4.1 Symbols
For the purposes of this standard, the following symbols apply:
λcc Cabled fibre cut-off wavelength
SZ A technique in which the lay reverses direction periodically
T0 Threshold below which no attenuation and/or fibre strain increase should occur in the tensile strength test
Tm The acceptable amount of transient stress that can be applied to the cable without permanent degradation of the characteristics of the fibres in the tensile strength test
TA1 Temperature cycling lower limit for acceptance criteria 1
TA2 Temperature cycling lower limit for acceptance criteria 2

TB2 Temperature cycling upper limit for acceptance criteria 2
t1 Temperature cycling test dwell time
4.2 Abbreviations
DS Detail Specification
EN Europäische Norm (European Standard)
HD Harmonization Document
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission

- 7 - EN 187103:2003 5 Family specification for optical telecommunication cables for indoor application (Blank detail specification and minimum requirements)
5.1 Cable description
(1) Prepared by
(2) Document N°:
Issue:
Date: (3) Available from: (4) Generic specification
: EN 187000 [4]
Sectional specification
: IEC/EN 60794-3 [17] (5) Additional references:
(6) Cable description: (Drawing)
(7) Cable construction:
OPTICAL FIBRES
RANGE OF FIBRE COUNT
MODULARITY
CONSTRUCTION
- Single coloured fibre S-c-f - Tube - filled F-l-t - Tube - unfilled U-l-t - Slotted core - filled F-s-c - Slotted core - unfilled U-s-c - Tight secondary coating T-s-c - Ribbon in slotted core R-s-c - Ribbon in tube R-l-t - Central (strength) member - metallic M-c-m - Central (strength) member - non metallic N-m-c-m - Core filling - continuous C-f - Core filling - regular water blocking R-b Lay-up - Stranding (helical or SZ) Str - Single unit S-u - Hybrid configuration H-c …………. Additional remarks

(7) Cable construction (continued)
Conductors ………….
Inner sheath ………….
Peripheral strength member - Metallic M-p-m - Non-metallic N-m-p-m ………….
Moisture barrier - Coated aluminium tape C-a-t - Double coated aluminium tape D-c-a-t - Double coated steel tape D-c-s-t ………….
Outer sheath ………….
Additional armouring - Metallic armouring M-a - Non-metallic armouring N-m-a ………….
Additional outer sheath ………….
Marking identification - Customer requirement - Identification of manufacturer Additional remarks (8) Application information:
Application
Nominal outer diameter ( d )
Minimum bending radius for static bending Minimum bending radius for dynamic bending
Temperature range: - Transport and storage - Installation - Operation
Manufacturing cable length: - Typical - Nominal/tolerances: according customer requirement
mm
mm or nxd
mm or nxd
°C
°C
°C mm
- 9 - EN 187103:2003 5.2 Optical fibres
5.2.1 Single mode dispersion unshifted (B1.1) optical fibre
Characteristics (9) EN 60794-3 [17] Clause (10) Family (11) requirements Test methods (12) Remarks (13) Uncabled optical fibre 4.1 EN 188101 [1]
Attenuation coefficient (cabled fibre)
at 1310 nm
at 1550 nm Attenuation discontinuities Attenuation linearity 4.2
according to DS Typical values: ≤ 0,45 dB/km ≤ 0,30 dB/km ≤ 0,10 dB under consideration EN 188000 [5]- 301, - 302, - 303
under consideration
Cable cut-off wavelength
4.3 λ cc < λ operational EN 188000 [5]- 313
Fibre colouring Outer diameter including colouring 4.4
7.2.1.1 IEC 60304 [7]
250 ± 15 µm visual inspection
EN 188000 [5]- 104
5.2.2 Single mode dispersion shifted (B1.2) optical fibre
Characteristics (9) EN 60794-3 [17]
Clause (10) Family (11
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