SIST EN 60794-2:2018

Optical fibre cables - Part 2: Indoor optical fibre cables - Sectional specification (IEC 60794-2:2017)

This part of IEC 60794 is a sectional specification. It gives the requirements that apply to
optical fibre cables for indoor use in communications networks. Other types of applications
requiring similar types of cables can be considered.

Lichtwellenleiterkabel - Teil 2: LWL-Innenkabel - Rahmenspezifikation

Câbles à fibres optiques - Partie 2: Câbles intérieurs - Spécification intermédiaire

IEC 60794-2:2017 est une spécification intermédiaire. Elle donne les exigences relatives aux câbles à fibres optiques destinés à être utilisés en intérieur dans des réseaux de communication. Il peut être envisagé de considérer d'autres types d'applications nécessitant des câbles d'un type similaire. Cette quatrième édition annule et remplace la troisième édition parue en 2002, dont elle constitue une révision technique. Cette édition inclut les modifications techniques majeures suivantes par rapport à l'édition précédente:
- la spécification a été rationalisée par établissement de correspondances avec l'IEC 60794-1-1 et l'IEC TR 61931;
- la structure du document a été alignée sur celle de l'IEC 60794-3, et l'Article 4 sur les fibres optiques a été ajouté;
- les exigences de transmission dans l'Article 4 ont été ajoutées;
- les conducteurs électriques et l'assemblage des éléments de câble ont été introduits dans l'Article 5 sur les éléments de câble et la construction des câbles;
- le paragraphe 5.13 sur l'identification a été divisé en trois parties: le codage par couleurs des fibres, le codage par couleurs des unités et le codage par couleurs des gaines;
- les propositions de codage par couleurs ont été étendues pour tenir compte des dernières catégories de fibres;
- l'Article 6 sur les conditions d'installation et de fonctionnement a été ajouté;
- les essais sur les éléments de câble et les essais sur les câbles ont été simplifiés en remplaçant le texte par des tableaux;
- une bibliographie a été ajoutée.
Mots clés: câbles à fibres optiques destinés à être utilisés en intérieur dans des réseaux de communication

Optični kabli - 2. del: Notranji optični kabli - Področna specifikacija (IEC 60794-2:2017)

Ta del standarda IEC 60794 je področna specifikacija. Podaja zahteve, ki se uporabljajo za optične kable za notranjo uporabo v komunikacijskih omrežjih. Ta dokument lahko obravnava tudi druge načine uporabe, ki zahtevajo podobne vrste kablov.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 21-Nov-2017
• ICS: 33.180.10 - Fibres and cables
• Technical Committee: MOC - Mobile Communications
• Current Stage: 6060 - National Implementation/Publication (Adopted Project)
• Start Date: 14-Nov-2017
• Due Date: 19-Jan-2018
• Completion Date: 22-Nov-2017
• Ref Project: EN 60794-2:2017 - Optical fibre cables - Part 2: Indoor cables - Sectional specification

Relations

• Revised: SIST EN 60794-2:2004 - Optical fibre cables -- Part 2: Indoor cables - Sectional specification
• Effective Date: 19-Apr-2016
• Replaces: SIST EN 60794-2:2004 - Optical fibre cables -- Part 2: Indoor cables - Sectional specification
• Effective Date: 13-Nov-2017

Standards Content (Sample)

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EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 60794-2

NORME EUROPÉENNE

EUROPÄISCHE NORM
October 2017
ICS 33.180.10 Supersedes EN 60794-2:2003
English Version
Optical fibre cables - Part 2: Indoor cables - Sectional
specification
(IEC 60794-2:2017)
Câbles à fibres optiques - Partie 2: Câbles intérieurs - Lichtwellenleiterkabel - Teil 2: LWL-Innenkabel -
Spécification intermédiaire Rahmenspezifikation
(IEC 60794-2:2017) (IEC 60794-2:2017)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2017-07-27. 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 CEN-CENELEC
Management Centre 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 CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the
same status as the official versions.
CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.


European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
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© 2017 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members.
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EN 60794-2:2017

European foreword
The text of document 86A/1793/FDIS, future edition 4 of IEC 60794-2, prepared by SC 86 A "Fibres
and Cables" of IEC/TC 86 "Fibre optics" was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and
approved by CENELEC as EN 60794-2:2017.

The following dates are fixed:
• latest date by which the document has to be (dop) 2018-04-27
implemented at national level by
publication of an identical national
standard or by endorsement
(dow) 2020-10-27
• latest date by which the national
standards conflicting with the
document have to be withdrawn

This document supersedes EN 60794-2:2003.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 60794-2:2017 was approved by CENELEC as a European
Standard without any modification.
In the official version, for Bibliography, the following notes have to be added for the standards indicated:

IEC 60794-1-2 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60794-1-2.
IEC 60794-1-31 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60794-1-31.
IEC 609794-2-10 NOTE Harmonized as EN 609794-2-10.
IEC 60794-3 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60794-3.
IEC 62807-1 NOTE Harmonized as EN 62807-1.
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Annex ZA
(normative)

Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications

The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments)
applies.

NOTE 1  Where an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant
EN/HD applies.

NOTE 2  Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is available here:
www.cenelec.eu.

Publication Year Title EN/HD Year

IEC 60304 -  Standard colours for insulation for low- HD 402 S2 -
frequency cables and wires
IEC 60793-1-40 -  Optical fibres - Part 1-40: Measurement EN 60793-1-40 -
methods and test procedures - Attenuation
IEC 60793-2 -  Optical fibres - Part 2: Product EN 60793-2 -
specifications - General
IEC 60793-2-10 2015 Optical fibres - Part 2-10: Product EN 60793-2-10 2016
specifications - Sectional specification for
category A1 multimode fibres
IEC 60793-2-50 -  Optical fibres - Part 2-50: Product EN 60793-2-50 -
specifications - Sectional specification for
class B single-mode fibres
IEC 60794-1-1 2015 Optical fibre cables - Part 1-1: Generic EN 60794-1-1 2016
specification - General
IEC 60794-1-21 -  Optical fibre cables - Part 1-21: Generic EN 60794-1-21 -
specification - Basic optical cable test
procedures - Mechanical tests methods
IEC 60794-1-22 -  Optical fibre cables - Part 1-22: Generic EN 60794-1-22 -
specification - Basic optical cable test
procedures - Environmental test methods
IEC 60794-1-23 -  Optical fibre cables - Part 1-23: Generic EN 60794-1-23 -
specification - Basic optical cable test
procedures - Cable element test methods
IEC 60794-1-24 -  Optical fibre cables - Part 1-24: Generic EN 60794-1-24 -
specification - Basic optical cable test
procedures - Electrical test methods
IEC 60794-2 series Optical fibre cables - Part 2: Indoor EN 60794-2 series
cables
IEC 60811-202 -  Electric and optical fibre cables - Test EN 60811-202 -
methods for non-metallic materials - Part
202: General tests - Measurement of
thickness of non-metallic sheath
IEC 60811-203 -  Electric and optical fibre cables - Test EN 60811-203 -
methods for non-metallic materials - Part
203: General tests - Measurement of
overall dimensions
IEC/TR 61931 -  Fibre optic - Terminology - -
ISO/IEC 11801 -  Information technology - Generic cabling - -
for customer premises

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 3
1 Scope . 5
2 Normative references . 5
3 Terms, definitions, symbols and abbreviated terms . 6
4 Optical fibres . 6
4.1 General . 6
4.2 Transmission requirements . 6
5 Cable elements and cable construction . 6
5.1 General . 6
5.2 Buffer . 7
5.3 Ruggedized fibre element . 7
5.4 Polymeric tube . 7
5.5 Ribbon structure . 7
5.6 Slotted core . 7
5.7 Strength and anti-buckling members . 7
5.8 Electrical conductors . 8
5.9 Lay-up of the cable elements . 8
5.10 Ripcord . 8
5.11 Sheath . 8
5.12 Sheath marking . 8
5.13 Identification . 8
5.13.1 General . 8
5.13.2 Fibre identification . 9
5.13.3 Unit colour coding . 9
5.13.4 Sheath colour coding . 9
5.14 Examples of cable constructions . 10
6 Installation and operating conditions . 10
7 Tests . 10
7.1 General . 10
7.2 Characterization of cable elements . 10
7.3 Optical fibre cable tests . 11
7.4 Fire performance . 12
8 Packaging . 13
9 Quality assurance . 13
Bibliography . 14

Table 1 – Colour coding scheme for units in hybrid or composite cables (example) . 9
Table 2 – Colour coding of cable outer sheaths (example) . 10
Table 3 – Characteristic of different types of cable elements . 11
Table 4 – Mechanical, environmental, electrical and dimensional applicable tests. 12

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OPTICAL FIBRE CABLES –

Part 2: Indoor cables – Sectional specification

FOREWORD
1) The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is a worldwide organization for standardization comprising
all national electrotechnical committees (IEC National Committees). The object of IEC is to promote
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2) The formal decisions or agreements of IEC on technical matters express, as nearly as possible, an international
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3) IEC Publications have the form of recommendations for international use and are accepted by IEC National
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8) Attention is drawn to the Normative references cited in this publication. Use of the referenced publications is
indispensable for the correct application of this publication.
9) Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this IEC Publication may be the subject of
patent rights. IEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
International Standard IEC 60794-2 has been prepared by subcommittee 86A: Fibres and
cables, of IEC technical committee 86: Fibre optics.
This fourth edition cancels and replaces the third edition published in 2002. This edition
constitutes a technical revision.
This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous
edition:
a) the specification has been streamlined by cross-referencing with IEC 60794-1-1 and
IEC TR 61931;
b) the document structure has been aligned with IEC 60794-3, and Clause 4 on optical fibres
was added;
c) transmission requirements in Clause 4 were added;

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d) the electrical conductors and the lay-up of the cable elements were introduced into
Article 5 on cable elements and construction;
e) 5.13 on identification was separated in fibre, unit and sheath colour coding;
f) the colour coding proposals were extended to accommodate latest fibre categories;
g) Article 6 on installation and operating condition was added;
h) cable element tests and cable tests have been simplified by the use of tables instead of
text;
i) a bibliography has been added.
The text of this International Standard is based on the following documents:
FDIS Report on voting
86A/1793/FDIS 86A/1805/RVD

Full information on the voting for the approval of this International Standard can be found in
the report on voting indicated in the above table.
This document has been drafted in accordance with the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.
A list of all parts in the IEC 60794 series, published under the general title Optical fibre
cables, can be found on the IEC website.
The committee has decided that the contents of this document will remain unchanged until the
stability date indicated on the IEC website under "http://webstore.iec.ch" in the data related to
the specific document. At this date, the document will be
• reconfirmed,
• withdrawn,
• replaced by a revised edition, or
• amended.

IMPORTANT – The 'colour inside' logo on the cover page of this publication indicates
that it contains colours which are considered to be useful for the correct
understanding of its contents. Users should therefore print this document using a
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Part 2: Indoor cables – Sectional specification



1 Scope
This part of IEC 60794 is a sectional specification. It gives the requirements that apply to
optical fibre cables for indoor use in communications networks. Other types of applications
requiring similar types of cables can be considered.
2 Normative references
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their
c
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