Patent ID: 9690061
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: B29C,G02B

Claim:
1. A method of making a subunit cable, comprising: providing at least two subunits along a process direction, each subunit comprising a plurality of optical fibers; compressing the subunits so that at least one of the subunits has a cross-section with a minor outside dimension and a major outside dimension, and the ratio of the minor dimension to the major dimension is less than 0.9; and extruding a subunit cable jacket around the subunits, wherein the subunits are compressed within the subunit cable jacket, wherein the at least two subunits comprises a first subunit and a second subunit, wherein for each optical fiber in the first subunit, there is a corresponding optical fiber in the second subunit of identical color and appearance, wherein the first subunit comprises twelve optical fibers and the second subunit comprises twelve optical fibers.