304 Cold Rolled Stainless Steel Strip For Optical Cable/OPGW

Product features
• Protective performance: The armor layer of 304 stainless steel belt can effectively resist external mechanical damage, such as extrusion, impact, rat and ant bites, etc., and protect the internal optical fiber (made of glass fiber, easy to break). Its corrosion resistance ensures that the optical cable is not easy to rust in underground, underwater, coastal high salt fog and other environments, and prolongs its service life (usually up to 20-30 years).
• Processing adaptation: Stainless steel belt has good ductility and formability. It can be bonded to the optical cable structure through processes such as longitudinal wrapping and corrugation (increasing flexibility), which not only ensures the protective effect, but also does not affect the bending performance of the optical cable (meeting the laying requirements during construction).

Application scenarios
• Outdoor communication engineering: It is a common armoring material for overhead optical cables, direct buried optical cables, and pipeline optical cables. It is suitable for long-distance communication trunk lines and urban optical network construction to resist natural environmental influences such as wind, sun, and soil corrosion.
• Laying in special environments: such as submarine optical cables (need to be resistant to seawater corrosion and water pressure), oil field mining area optical cables (resistant to chemical corrosion), subway tunnel optical cables (anti-mechanical collision), etc., rely on the strong protection ability of 304 stainless steel belts.
• Security and industrial fields: In the optical cable lines of security monitoring and the optical fiber transmission systems of industrial control, it is used to protect the stable transmission of optical fiber signals and avoid communication interruptions due to external damage.

Advantages and disadvantages
• Advantages:
◦ Strong protection: taking into account both mechanical protection and corrosion resistance, and adapting to a variety of harsh environments.
◦ High stability: The chemical properties of the material are stable and will not release harmful substances that affect the performance of optical fiber due to long-term use.
◦ Long life: Compared with plastic armor or ordinary steel belt, 304 stainless steel belt greatly increases the service life of the optical cable.