BS EN 61300-2-11:2013

What is BS EN 61300-2-11 - Fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components about?  

BS EN 61300 is a series on fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components. Fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components is a fibre optic telecommunications technology for delivering broadband network access to end customers. BS EN 61300-2-11 ensures that the captivation or the attachment of the cable to the fibre optic devices such as fibre optic closures will withstand compressive axial loads likely to be applied during normal service. 

Who is BS EN 61300-2-11 - Fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components for? 

BS EN 61300-2-11 on fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components is useful for: 

• Telecommunication component manufacturers 
• Telecommunication equipment manufacturers 
• Design engineers 
• Quality control personnel 

Why should you use BS EN 61300-2-11 - Fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components?  

Fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components architecture implement a point-to-multipoint topology in which a single optical fibre serves multiple endpoints by using unpowered (passive) fibre optic splitters to divide the fibre bandwidth among the endpoints. BS EN 61300-2-11 introduces a test procedure that is capable of applying an axial compression load between a clamped specimen and a cable. The apparatus consists of the elements described in BS EN 61300-2-11. 

The details which are applicable and are specified in BS EN 61300-2-11 are magnitude of the load, duration of the axial compression load if other than 2 min, cable type, diameter, length l, rate of load application, specimen mated or unmated, specimen optically functioning or non-functioning, pre-conditioning procedure, post-conditioning procedure, initial examinations and measurements and performance requirements, examinations and measurements during test and performance requirements if required, final examinations and measurements and performance requirements, optical measurement method, if necessary, deviations from the test procedure and additional pass/fail criteria. Using BS EN 61300-2-11 you can ensure that the captivation or the attachment of the cable to the fibre optic devices such as fibre optic closures will withstand compressive axial loads likely to be applied during normal service. 

What’s changed since the last update?  

BS EN 61300-2-11:2013 supersedes BS EN 61300-2-11:1997. BS EN 61300-2-11:2013 includes some technical changes with respect to BS EN 61300-2-11:1997. These include: 

• The procedure and details to be specified have been reconsidered 
• The severity of the test has been modified according to the cable diameter 
• The apparatus and mount for the device under test have been reconsidered in the sense of clamping device placement and this datum has been indicated in an appropriate figure