Fiber No.

Color

Blue Orange Green Brown Slate White Red Black Yellow Violet Rose Aqua 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Blue Orange Green Brown Slate White Red Black Yellow Violet Rose

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Aqua

Fiber Optic Cable Color Code Color Code for Fiber Optic Cables Fiber optic cables are terminated using an industry standard color code. For cables that consist of more than 12 strands, the color code repeats itself. Each group of 12 strands is identified with some other means such as:

multiple buffer tubes each with 12 or less strands either numbered or colored following the same color code, e.g., 1st tube is blue, 2nd is orange, etc. 24 strand groups with the color code repeating with some variation, e.g., the 1st group of 12 strands are solid colors and the 2nd group are solid colors with a stripe or some other identifying mark.

The color sequence is illustrated below. It is very similar to the color code for twisted pair cables except the second group of colors is used first and 2 new colors are added at the end.

Jacket Colors For outdoor aerial and burial type cables, the jacket color is usually black polyethelene for both multimode and singlemode cables. For indoor cables, the outer most cable jacket may be any color but the de facto industry standard is:

Orange for multimode fibers Yellow for singlemode fibers

This is also generally true for fiber optic patch cords.

Loose tube cables with 36 fibers or less are composed of up to 6 colorcoded fibers in individual color-coded tubes. Higher fiber counts are composed of up to 12 fibers in individual color-coded buffer tubes. For cables containing more than 144 fibers, a black stripe is added to duplicate color-coded tubes to make recognizable groups. For example: A 24 fiber loose tube cable will have 6 fibers in each of 4

tubes. The tube colors will be blue, orange, green and brown. Fiber colors will be blue, orange, green, brown, slate, and white. Fibers are identified by tube color/fiber color. Blue/White is the white fiber in the blue tube. Tight buffered distribution cables with 12 fibers or less will be colored according to the chart under a single jacket. Higher fiber counts will be grouped in subunits of 6 or 12 color-coded fibers each. Tight buffered breakout cables contain a single fiber in each subunit with the buffer color varying for each 12 subunit set. Subunit jackets can be color-coded or numbered for identification. In cables of mixed fiber types (hybrids), the multimode fibers will begin the color sequence. Outer jacket standard colors: Premise cables with multimode fibers are ORANGE. Premise cables with singlemode fibers are YELLOW. Premise cables with mixed (hybrid) fibers are BLACK. Indoor/Outdoor cables with any/all fibers are BLACK.

Fiber Number Color Code 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 blue orange green brown slate white red black yellow violet rose aqua

Color