Equip LC/APC to LC/APC Armored Fibre Optic Patch Cable OS2 Single-mode Simplex 9/125µm LSZH 10m Yellow

The Equip 255906 is a 10 m simplex OS2 single-mode fibre cable with green LC/APC connectors on both ends and an internal spiral steel armour – built for links where the cable may be stepped on, pinched in a tray or routed through busy cable paths.

APC (angled physical contact) ends have an 8° polished face that keeps back-reflection very low, which is why they are used on FTTH/PON, CATV/RF-over-fibre and other analogue or high-sensitivity single-mode systems. Equip lists data centres, telecom rooms, enterprise and cloud networks as the applications. The jacket is halogen-free LSZH.

• 1 × Equip LC/APC–LC/APC simplex armored fibre cable, 10 m

• Both ends are LC/APC: the small push-latch LC connector with a green angled-polish ferrule – used on PON/FTTH ONTs and splitters, CATV fibre nodes and some high-end single-mode patch panels.
• Simplex means one fibre. It suits single-fibre systems (GPON/XGS-PON drops, BiDi optics, RF-over-fibre) – for a normal two-fibre Ethernet link order two cables.
• The internal spiral armour makes the cable much harder to crush or kink than a standard patch cord, so it can lie under raised floors, in shared trays or along walls with less protection.
• Single-mode OS2 is what long-reach and PON optics expect; at 10 m the cable length is never the distance limit.

• Not for blue UPC or beige multimode ports – mating APC with flat-polished (UPC/PC) connectors damages both ends and gives a very high loss.
• Not for a standard duplex SFP/SFP+ link on its own – those need two fibres (Tx and Rx).
• Not for multimode SR/SX optics (850 nm) – this is single-mode 9/125 µm fibre.
• Not for SC/APC equipment – it needs an SC/APC–LC/APC cable or a hybrid adapter.