PASP Cable is a solid insulated, double jacket, armored air core design intended for use in outside cable plant where a greater risk of physical damage exists. The inner jacket provides protection to the cable core in the event of severe damage to the outer protective sheath.

Features:
• Tightly controlled individual conductor dimensions
• Specially designed pair twist lays
• Core wrap
• Inner polyethylene jacket
• Aluminum tape shield
• Steel tape armor bonded to outer jacket
• Polyethylene jacket

Benefits:
• Limits resistance unbalance of paired conductors
• Minimizes crosstalk and meets the capacitance unbalance requirements
• Protects the core and provides core-to-shield dielectric strength
• Provides additional protection against mechanical damage and prevents the ingress of moisture
• Assures good electrical contact with non-piercing bonding clamps
• Protects the core from mechanical damage and reduces the possibility of tape buckling during installation, ingress of water to the aluminum shield and of water along the cable between the armor and outer jacket
• Provides a tough, flexible, protective covering that withstands exposure to sunlight, atmospheric temperatures, ground chemicals and stresses expected in standard installations

Specifications:
Conductor:
Solid annealed copper

Insulation:
Conductors are insulated with solid polyolefin indistinctive colors to facilitate pair identification

≤ 25-Pair Core:
Pairs are combined into a cylindrical core

> 50-Pair Core:
Multiples of 25-pair groups are assembled to form thefinal cable core; each group is identified by color codednon-hygroscopic binders; for 1,200-pair and larger, thecolor code is a Mirror Image design

Core Wrap:
Non-hygroscopic dielectric material

Inner Jacket:
Polyethylene

Shield:
Corrugated bare 8 mil aluminum tape appliedlongitudinally over the inner jacket

Armor:
Corrugated, copolymer coated, 6 mil steel tape applied overthe aluminum shield; armor is bonded to the outer jacket

Outer Jacket:
Black polyethylene

Jacket Marking:
Manufacturer’s identification, pair count, AWG, productidentification, sequential footage and a telephonehandset printed at 2 foot intervals

Standards Compliance:
• Telcordia® GR-421-CORE Issue 2
• RoHS-compliant

Applications:
• Pressurized direct buried installations in harsh environments