Patent ID: 7840109
Filing Date: 2010-11-23
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
1. A telecommunications cable comprising: a main cable including a cable jacket and a central buffer tube positioned within the cable jacket, the central buffer tube defining a buffer tube passage, the main cable also including a ribbon stack positioned within the buffer tube passage, the ribbon stack including a width, a height and a maximum cross-dimension, the buffer tube passage having a minimum cross-dimension, the main cable including a cut region where a slot has been cut through the cable jacket and the central buffer tube to provide access to the ribbon stack during manufacture of the telecommunications cable, the slot having a length and a width, the width of the slot being larger than the width of the ribbon stack, the minimum cross-dimension of the buffer tube passage being larger than the maximum cross-dimension of the ribbon stack, and a portion of the cable jacket extending continuously across the cut region along the length of the slot; a tether that branches from the main cable at the cut region; an optical fiber structure that extends from the ribbon stack, through the cut region and into the tether; and an enclosure covering the cut region.