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IEC 60794-1-1 Edition 4.0 2015-11 INTERNA TIONAL STA NDA RD Optical fibre cables Part 1-1:Generic specification General IEC 60794-1-1:2015-11(en)colourinsideCopyright International Electrotechnical Commission THIS PUBLICA TION IS COPYRIGHT PROTECTED Copyright 2015 IEC,Geneva,Switzerland All rights reserved.Unless otherwise specified,no par t of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any for m or by any means,electronic or mechanical,including photocopying and microfilm,without per mission in writing fr om either IEC or IECs member National Committee in the country of the requester.If you have any questions about IEC copyright or have an enquiry about obtaining additional r ights to this publication,please contact the address below or your local IEC member National Committee for further infor mation.IEC Centr al Office Tel.:+41 22 919 02 11 3,rue de Varemb Fax:+41 22 919 03 00 CH-1211 Geneva 20 infoiec.ch Switzerland www.iec.ch About t he IEC The International Electr otechnical Commission(IEC)is the leading global organization that prepar es and publishes Inter national Standards for all electr ical,electronic and related technologies.A bout IEC publications The technical content of IEC publications is kept under constant review by the IEC.Please make sur e that you have the latest edition,a cor rigenda or an amendment might have been published.IEC Cat alogue-webstore.iec.ch/cat alogue The stand-alone application for consulting the entire bibliographical information on IEC International Standards,Technical Specifications,Technical R eports and other documents.A v ailable for PC,Mac OS,A ndroid Tablets and iPad.IEC publications search-w w w.iec.ch/searchpub The adv anced search enables to find IEC publications by a variety of criteria(reference number,text,technical committee,).It also gives information on projec ts,replaced and withdrawn publications.IEC Just Published-webstore.iec.ch/justpublished Stay up to date on all new IEC publications.Just Published details all new publications released.A v ailable online and also once a month by email.Elect ropedia-w w w.elect ropedia.org The worlds leading online dic tionary of elec tronic and electrical terms containing more than 30 000 terms and definitions in English and French,with equiv alent terms in 15 additional languages.Also known as the International Elec trotechnical Vocabulary (IEV)online.IEC Glossar y-st d.iec.ch/glossary More than 60 000 electrotechnical terminology entries in English and French extracted from the Terms and Definitions clause of IEC publications issued since 2002.Some entries hav e been collected from earlier publications of IEC TC 37,77,86 and CISPR.IEC Customer Service Cent re-webstore.iec.ch/csc If y ou wish to giv e us y our feedback on this publication or need further assistance,please contact the Customer Serv ice Centre:csciec.ch.Copyright International Electrotechnical Commission IEC 60794-1-1 Edit ion 4.0 2015-11 INTER NA TIONAL STA NDA R D Optical fibre cables Part 1-1:Generic specification General INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION ICS 33.180.10 ISBN 978-2-8322-3002-2 R egist er ed tr ademar k of t he Int er national Electr ot echnical Commission Warning!Make sure that you obtained this publication from an authorized distributor.colourinsideCopyright International Electrotechnical Commission 2 IEC 60794-1-1:2015 IEC 2015 CONTENTS FOREWORD.4 1 Scope.6 2 Normative references.6 3 Terms and definitions.7 4 Graphical symbols and abbreviations.12 5 Optical fibre cables.13 6 Materials.13 6.1 Optical fibre.13 6.1.1 General.13 6.1.2 Attenuation coefficient.13 6.1.3 Attenuation uniformity Attenuation discontinuities.13 6.1.4 Cable cut-off wavelength.14 6.1.5 Fibre colouring.14 6.1.6 Polarization mode dispersion(PMD).14 6.2 Electrical conductors.14 6.3 Other materials.14 6.4 Environmental requirements.14 7 Cable construction.14 7.1 General.14 7.2 Colour coding.15 7.2.1 Overview.15 7.2.2 Unit colour coding.15 7.2.3 Sheath colour coding.15 8 Measuring methods.15 8.1 General.15 8.2 Measuring methods for dimensions.15 8.3 Measuring methods for mechanical characteristics.16 8.4 Measuring methods for electrical characteristics.16 8.5 Measuring methods for transmission and optical characteristics.16 8.6 Measuring methods for environmental characteristics.17 8.7 Measuring methods for cable element characterisation.17 9 Related Technical Reports.17 Annex A(informative)Guidelines for specific defined applications and cabled fibre performance.18 A.1 General.18 A.2 Cabled fibre attenuation requirements.18 A.3 Cabled fibre bandwidth requirements.19 A.4 Type testing at 1 625 nm.20 Annex B(informative)Guidelines for qualification sampling.21 B.1 General.21 B.2 Fibre selection for cable testing.21 B.3 Pass/fail criteria.21 Bibliography.23 Table 1 Measuring methods for dimensions.16 Copyright International Electrotechnical Commission IEC 60794-1-1:2015 IEC 2015 3 Table 2 Measuring methods for electrical characteristics.16 Table 3 Me