Panduit FRZ8PJJY011F030 PanMPO-8 Plenum-Rated OM4 Fiber Trunk Cable

The Panduit FRZ8PJJY011F030 delivers factory-terminated 8-fiber OM4 connectivity for datacenter and enterprise backbone installations requiring 40GBASE-SR4 or multi-channel 10G transport. This 30-foot plenum-rated trunk cable features PanMPO-8 female connectors on both ends, providing a compact alternative to traditional 12-fiber MPO designs when your architecture uses 8-fiber breakout cassettes or switch modules. The aqua jacket meets TIA-598-C color coding for immediate OM4 identification during moves, adds, and changes. Engineered for air-handling spaces with OFNP flammability compliance, this assembly eliminates field termination variability while meeting the low insertion loss and return loss budgets critical to 40G and 100G SR optics.

Key Features

• PanMPO-8 female connectors both ends—precision-aligned ferrules for <0.35 dB insertion loss per industry standards
• OM4 50-micron multimode fiber—850 nm optimized, supports 400 m at 40GBASE-SR4 and 150 m at 100GBASE-SR10
• Plenum-rated OFNP jacket—UL 910 / NFPA 262 compliant for installation in ceiling voids and raised-floor plenums without conduit
• 30-foot (9.14 m) length—ideal for intra-row or zone-to-zone connections in structured cabling deployments
• Aqua jacket color—immediate visual confirmation of OM4 grade per TIA-598-C, reducing mix-ups with OM3 (aqua) vs. OM2 (orange)
• Factory-terminated and tested—every cable ships with insertion loss and return loss test data, eliminating field polishing labor and performance uncertainty
• 8-fiber count—matches 40GBASE-SR4 (4 TX + 4 RX lanes) and 8-fiber breakout cassette pinouts without unused dark fiber
• Pan-Net sub-brand—Panduit's structured cabling portfolio with 25-year application assurance when installed per guidelines

The FRZ8PJJY011F030 uses laser-optimized OM4 fiber with 4700 MHz·km modal bandwidth at 850 nm, exceeding the 3500 MHz·km OM3 specification by 34%. This headroom is essential when deploying 40GBASE-SR4 transceivers, which transmit four parallel 10 Gbps lanes over eight fibers (four TX, four RX). At 30 feet, this trunk falls well within the 400-meter OM4 reach for 40G SR4 optics, providing margin for patch-cord loss and future moves. The PanMPO-8 connector is Panduit's implementation of the IEC 61754-7 multi-fiber push-on interface, featuring a reduced footprint compared to 12-fiber MPO designs—critical when faceplate or patch-panel real estate is constrained. Each ferrule is factory-polished and inspected, with insertion loss guaranteed below 0.5 dB and return loss above 20 dB. The female connector profile (no guide pins) requires a mating male jumper or adapter; this configuration is standard when connecting to switch modules with male MPO ports or to breakout cassettes that fan out to eight LC duplex ports. The cable's 2.0 mm round zipcord construction balances flexibility for routing through cable trays with the jacket strength needed to survive tie-wrap tension and repeated handling during MAC operations. Internal aramid yarn strength members absorb tensile loads, protecting the fiber cores from microbending attenuation that can degrade link margin over time.

Typical deployments include top-of-rack to end-of-row aggregation switches in spine-leaf architectures, where 40G uplinks replace four separate 10G connections to reduce transceiver count and power draw. In SAN environments, this trunk connects Fibre Channel switches at 32GFC (using four 8GFC lanes), providing the low latency and deterministic performance storage arrays require. The plenum rating satisfies NEC Article 770 for optical fiber cables installed in environmental air spaces without raceway, a common requirement in commercial buildings where ceiling plenums double as return-air paths. Unlike riser-rated (OFNR) cables, OFNP jackets use low-smoke, flame-retardant compounds that self-extinguish and limit smoke density to 0.5 or less per ASTM E662—essential for life-safety compliance in occupied spaces. The 30-foot length suits intra-row connections in hot-aisle/cold-aisle layouts, zone cabling from telecom rooms to intermediate distribution frames, and equipment-to-patch-panel links in equipment racks. When planning fiber counts, the 8-fiber design eliminates the four unused fibers present in a 12-fiber MPO trunk used for a single 40G link, reducing material cost and simplifying OTDR testing. The aqua jacket color is more than cosmetic: TIA-598-C standardizes aqua for OM4 and OM3 (with OM4 often labeled or tagged), orange for OM1/OM2, and yellow for single-mode, enabling installers to confirm fiber type at a glance and avoid the catastrophic insertion loss that occurs when mixing multimode grades or accidentally patching multimode to single-mode optics.

This assembly ships as a single unit with protective dust caps on both connectors, and the carton quantity of 10 allows bulk procurement for large-scale datacenter builds or campus backbone projects. Panduit's factory test report documents per-connector insertion loss and polarity, verified using calibrated reference-grade test jumpers traceable to NIST standards. For installations requiring compliance documentation, the OFNP plenum rating is third-party certified and marked on the cable jacket every two feet, simplifying inspection sign-off. When deploying 40G or 100G optics, this trunk integrates with Panduit's cassette modules, splice enclosures, and fiber management hardware to form a complete end-to-end pathway—reducing the procurement complexity and vendor finger-pointing that plague mixed-vendor fiber plants.