Draka’s premium grade BendBright-XS Patch Cord combines three attractive features: excellent low macro-bending sensitivity, Draka’s revolutionary DLPC 9 coating and tight glass geometry. Together they create the ideal fiber for all patch cord, interconnect and jumper applications. 

BendBright-XS: The next generation bending behavior has been obtained by adding a trench with a lowered refractive index in the cladding area preventing the optical field to escape. This has been designed in such a way that no compromise has been made with respect to the main transmission parameters. Bend radii in fiber guidance ports can be reduced as well as minimum bend radii in wall and corner mountings. 

Precision glass geometry: Based on a special geometry measurement, a tight geometry specification can be guaranteed over the entire length of the fiber, a pre-requisite for automated connectorisation practices. 

Features: 
• Low macro-bending loss in the 7,5 to 15 mm bend radius 
• Low bending loss at partial bends in the mm bend radius 
• Low micro-bending loss 
• Tight cladding diameter 125.0 ± 0.4 µm 
• Tight cladding non-circularity ≤ 0.3 % 
• Tight core/cladding concentricity ≤ 0.3 µm 
• DLPC9 coating 

Advantages: 
• Allows shorter radius storage of fiber over length, offering more compact installations 
• Is more forgiving for installation errors in fiber management systems and/or splice protection devices 
• Allows for tight in building installations 
• Allows for small volume patch panel installations 
• Prevents fiber coating degradation in case of high power pump systems are used in up-grading scenarios 
• Allows for highly demanding cable designs including ribbons 
• Guaranteeing easy, fully automated connectorisation 
• Guaranteeing easy connectorisation 
• Offering low connector loss 
• Guaranteeing easy stripability