The new breed of reduced bend radius fibers can reduce minimum bend radius requirements from the traditional 10 times the outside diameter of the jacketed cable (about 38 mm) to as low as 5 mm to 10 mm without increasing attenuation.
A monumental breakthrough in the fiber community, this capability conjures up all kinds of possibilities for technicians and installers, particularly in fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) applications.
Today, the greatest need for these fibers is in high-density cable management products for FTTP applications. In addition, they will undoubtedly be used in new DWDM, CWDM, SONET and CATV applications.